On Nov. 27, professional boxer Regis Prograis became the WBC super lightweight world champion after knocking out Jose Zepeda in the 11th round of their title shot match. This win was a great comeback for Prograis, who, just three years ago, lost his junior welterweight world title to Josh Taylor in the U.K.

With his latest victory, the 33-year-old New Orleans native was set to take home a $1.2 million purse. According to Total Sportal, his winnings included $350,000 guaranteed and payouts from Pay-Per-View. The big payday was coming via the boxing promotion company MarvNation Promotions.

Since the fight took place on Saturday night, the new two-time world titleholder had to wait until the next business day to deposit the check. Anyone can assume that signing over a check for $1.2 million may take some time to clear, but for Prograis, the alert he got from his bank wasn’t so good.

Prograis later touched back down in his hometown of New Orleans just to learn his money didn’t make it home with him. So, on Wednesday morning, he took to Twitter to let fans know that someone at MarvNation didn’t move their savings to their checking.

“I deposited my fight check Monday while I was in LA. Today the bank emailed me saying the check bounced because of insufficient funds,” he tweeted. “Somebody better find out what’s going on before I click the f**k out.”

 

According to Boxing Scene, MarvNation is a small promotional company based in Southern California. It received financial and promotional support for the Pay-Per-View event from Legendz Entertainment, and was required by the California State Athletic Commission to show proof of funds before the fight.

Once proof of the funds going into an escrow account was provided, it was allowed to proceed.

Boxing podcast The Boxing Voice shared the boxer’s tweet on its Instagram page, and MarvNation entered the comments to declare it was “fake news.”

The Boxing Voice shared a screenshot of the encounter on Twitter.

MarvNation also replied to a fan in the comments, saying, “People need to get facts before they post. The facts will be out shortly.”

Since then, it looks like the issue has been rectified — at least partially.

According to NOLA.com, by sundown Wednesday night, Prograis had been wired half of his money and is expected to receive the remaining balance on Thursday.

“The issue was with the bank considering it fraud or something with $2 million going out in one day to a lot of different people,” said MarvNation president Marvin Rodriguez, according to NOLA.com. “It’s been cleared up, and the money has been sent out.”

Roger Ruiz, a managing partner for Legendz Entertainment, told Yahoo Sports that it ran into this issue because its Wells Fargo bank account was newly opened.

 

“We opened the account, I don’t know, in the last month, and there wasn’t much going on with it and in the last week, there was a lot of activity in and out of the account,” Ruiz told the publication. “They saw so much money all of a sudden in and out of the account that they decided to put a hold on, and Regis literally is the only one who didn’t get paid.”

Prograis confirmed that he’s received the first half of his payment but would appreciate it if it came without the hassle.

“I’ve got seven people expecting to get paid by me, too. I just don’t understand why they paid everybody else first, and I’m last because I was supposed to get the most,” he told NOLA.com.

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