By Elliot Foster

Conor Benn has had his return foe named.

The Ilford welterweight, 20, is set for action this weekend at Manchester Arena, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office.

Benn is currently 5-0 with three early endings and was originally meant to box on the undercard of the ‘Big City Dreams’ card at Wembley’s SSE Arena on November 26, but he was ruled out with shingles.

Boxing Scene reported on December 1 that the son of former two-weight world champion Nigel would be on the pay-per-view show and, as he goes looking for his sixth straight victory in the paid code since turning over under Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing in April and having been cleared to lace up the gloves again, the man who will be in the opposite corner has now been identified.

Steven Backhouse, who has a record of 1-4-1 (1 KO), is scheduled to box Benn over four rounds, as part of the undercard to Anthony Joshua’s second IBF heavyweight world title defence against Eric Molina.

Backhouse, 26, is from Manchester and only turned professional himself in May this year.

He was most recently in action on October 22, at the Bolton Whites Hotel, where he was stopped by Lee Gillespie inside two rounds.

The Joshua-Molina card, co-promoted by Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing and Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, features five other title fights, the second pro outing of glittering Irish amateur Katie Taylor, a heavyweight clash over eight rounds between Cuba’s Luis Ortiz and Conisbrough’s Dave Allen and the return of undefeated super-welterweight Marcus Morrison over six rounds.

Dillian Whyte will defend his British heavyweight title against former European champion and world title challenger Dereck Chisora on the bill in an official eliminator for the WBC belt and Kal Yafai bids to become Birmingham’s first world champion as he takes on WBA flyweight king Luis Concepcion of Panama.

Meanwhile, Hosea Burton defends his British light-heavyweight title in a rescheduled clash against Frank Buglioni, Callum Smith will defend his Lonsdale belt at super-middleweight against mandatory challenger Luke Blackledge in what will probably be his last fight before fighting either Badou Jack or James DeGale for the WBC and IBF world crowns at the weight and Scott Quigg returns to the ring for the first time since February, up at featherweight, against José Cayetano for the vacant WBA International crown.