divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/85378?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+Olympic+champion+DeGale+turns+professional+with+Frank+Warrench=Sportc3=guardian.co.ukc4=James+DeGale+%28boxer%29%2CBoxing%2COlympic+games+2012+%28News%29%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2COlympic+Gamesc6=Sean+Inglec7=2008_12_02c8=1127407c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=James+DeGalec13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FJames+DeGale" width="1" height="1" //divpOlympic gold medallist a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/jamesdegale" title=""James DeGale/a today became the third member of Great Britain's boxing squad from Beijing to turn professional with promoter Frank Warren./ppWarren has also signed Billy Joe Saunders, who lost meekly in the second round before complaining of homesickness, and Frankie Gavin, the 2007 world amateur champion, who was sent home before the Games when he failed to make his required weight. All three men will make their professional debuts early in 2009./pp"I'm delighted to have signed James, Frankie and Billy Joe, and I'm very excited about working with them in the future," said Warren./pp"I think they will all become world champions, and after their success as amateurs, the public is really going to get behind them and will want to watch their progress through the ranks."/ppWarren said there would be plenty of opportunity to see his stable of fighters action. "There will be six to eight shows a year," he said. "We will be taking them around the country so the British public can see a work in progress as they are built to be world champions. We had to beat off a lot of competition to make these signings. These lads will follow in the footsteps of the likes of Naseem Hamed, Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton. We are building them to be world champions."/ppDeGale had insisted he would stay as an amateur for the London Olympics, provided his coach, Terry Edwards, remained in charge of the national team and he was given "sensible money" to train and provide for his family./pp"I want to win a gold medal in my home town of London," he told reporters following his 16-14 victory over Cuba's Emilio Correa in the Olympic final. "Obviously the money will have to be nice, and it will be hard to say no if they offer me £1m [to turn pro] but I want to sign a contract [to stay as an amateur] until 2012. If Terry stays, I stay."/ppHowever DeGale, a 22-year-old from Harlesden, has become increasingly disillusioned with the Amateur Boxing Association. Another of the British squad, light-heavyweight bronze-medallist Tony Jefferies, recently made public the squad's frustrations with the ABA saying: "The ABA haven't been in touch with me at all about staying amateur until 2012. They owe me a £5,000 medal bonus from the Olympics as well. James Degale hasn't got his either and he got a gold so his bonus was a lot bigger. I also got fined last month for not going to training camps before the European Championships."/pp"When we got off the plane we all thought we were going to have packages in place for us," added Jeffries, who has agreed a professional contract with promoter Dennis Hobson's Fight Academy added. "With the next Games being in London, it was tempting to see what they were prepared to offer us to stay amateur. But I can't wait forever."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/jamesdegale"James DeGale/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/boxing"Boxing/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/olympics2012"Olympic games 2012/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3jIrvIYQR2Z6s6gcW0yxQkI2vPQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3jIrvIYQR2Z6s6gcW0yxQkI2vPQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p