By Edward Chaykovsky
Olympic medal winner Anthony Ogogo is hoping his countryman, James DeGale, comes through tomorrow night when he faces Andre Dirrell for the vacant IBF super middleweight title in Boston. The fight will be televised as the headline fight of the next Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC. Sky Sports will televise in the UK.
DeGale capture his own Olympic glory with a gold medal and wants to become the first fighter in UK history to win gold at the Olympics and a world title as a pro.
Ogogo wants DeGale to win, but has a feeling that Dirrell will pull it out with a close twelve round decision to grab the belt. A few years ago, Dirrell traveled over to Nottingham and lost a controversial twelve round decision to Carl Froch in the Super Six Tournament, which is still the only loss on Dirrell's record.
"I hope he wins but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Dirrell nicked it on points. He's a very talented boxer and having the home advantage, I think that might just see him through. But hopefully I'm wrong. Fingers crossed James can pull it off and we can have another British world champion," Ogogo told BBC Sport.