BoxingScene.com recently reported that former two-division champion Carl Frampton (26-2) will take on Luis “Orlandito” Del Valle (25-3)  on November 30th in Las Vegas. The fight was to serve as the co-feature bout underneath the Oscar Valdez-Andres Gutierrez ESPN+ main event that will stream live from the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino.

Del Valle, who has won 3 bouts in a row against lower level competition after a nearly 3 year hiatus from the ring following a loss to Diego De La Hoya, has informed BoxingScene.com that the bout is now off.

The Puerto Rico-based Del Valle was recently informed that the notoriously strict Nevada State Athletic Commission has rejected the fight. In recent years the commission headed by Bob Bennett has become much more selective in an effort to make the most evenly matched fights as possible.

Del Valle however isn’t so sure that is the reasoning why the fight is off. Frampton was supposed to return to the ring in August but the fight was scratched when he suffered a freak accident in the fight hotel lobby.

He will now have been out of the ring almost 12 months when he sets foot in the ring on November 30th. Del Valle believes that Top Rank may want an easier opponent after his layoff.

“It’s BS. They say it’s due to my layoff and (the level of) my last 3 opponents after my comeback. Frampton has been out for a year and is also coming back from injury. I don’t get why the commission won’t accept me and would accept a prospect who hasn’t fought anybody,  That guy is a way easier fight for Frampton,” Del Valle told BoxingScene.com.

According to our sources, Frampton is now expected to face Tyler McCreary (16-0-1). The 26 year-old Ohio based prospect defeated Jessie Cris Rosales in his most recent bout. He was slated to appear on the Top Rank show October 26 in Reno, on the Shakur Stevenson-Joet Gonzalez card, before this opportunity came about.