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Russian David Avanesyan’s manager Neil Marsh has confirmed that his man has been promoted to full champion status by the WBA and will defend his ‘regular’ welterweight title against former world champion Lamont Peterson on February 18 at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, live on Showtime.
Tommy Langford will defend his British middleweight title against Craig Cunningham on April 22 at the Leicester Arena, as part of BT Sport’s push into the British boxing landscape in a fight that gives the winner bragging rights in Birmingham. Langford, who won the title last November in a frustrating clash with Sam Sheedy in Cardiff, will defend the bauble for the first time and is looking forward to clashing with Cunningham in a fight he says will provide plenty of entertainment for BT viewers.
Manager and promoter Steve Goodwin has told Boxing Scene that he is looking for a year of consolidation in 2017 following an extremely successful 2016 which saw him end with seven Southern Area champions, two English and a British champion in Frank Buglioni.
Carl Greaves looks back on 2016 with a great deal of pride, but he is refusing to rest on his laurels as he aims to match it in 2017 and then improve on it as he looks ahead to potentially an even bigger year.
At 26 it’s safe to say Kieran Farrell didn’t expect that he would be promoting shows in his hometown of Manchester. At 22 he collapsed following a barnstorming clash with future world champion Anthony Crolla and his fighting career was in tatters.
Liverpool’s Robbie Davies Jnr will now defend his WBA Continental super-lightweight against Zoltan Szabo, as previously reported on Boxing Scene, after it was revealed that Willie Limond has withdrawn from their scheduled fight in Preston this Saturday.
British super-lightweight champion Tyrone Nurse once again saw a mandatory challenger, picked by the British Boxing Board of Control, pull out of a fight with him after Ohara Davies withdrew in favour of a clash with Derry Mathews on the March 4.
Anthony Cacace has been forced to withdraw for Saturday’s card in Preston, which will be shown on ITV, but he has been named mandatory for the winner of Martin J Ward’s British title defence against Maxi Hughes on March 25 in Manchester by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Atif Shafiq will return to action on Saturday 21st at the Preston Guild Hall on ITV4 and he will be hoping to put a frustrating 2016 firmly behind him in the rear view mirror.
Manager and promoter Neil Marsh says he is extremely excited to let Robbie Davies Jnr loose on ITV4 in Preston, at the Guild Hall, and demonstrate the talent that he knows the 27-year-old Liverpool man possesses.