This might sound like a bit of a daft question but is it only the BBBofC that have suspended his licence?,if so why wasn't he fighting out of the States or some country in Europe?
yeh he should have gone and fought in the states. expect to see him agaisnt Cook before the end of the year.
Since his licence was suspended he has spent various periods of time in jail in both the UK and Spain and, presumably, also various periods where he was under bail conditions in each country relating to those charges and was unable to leave the country (I remember one of his court appearances in Scotland being postponed as at that time the Spanish authorities had confiscated his passport and he was not allowed to leave Spain). Not a lot of time left for fighting elsewhere.
I never understood why he never just went to Ireland or something, but he should be given one last chance by the British board, I think he could beat Nicky cook after a few warm up fights.