Jay Harris: record, next fight and profile →
Jay Harris and Paddy Barnes are officially set to meet at the crossroads. The pair of United Kingdom-based flyweights made weight for their scheduled 10-round regional title fight, which takes place Friday evening at Ulster Hall in Barnes’ hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Paddy Barnes has no ill feeling towards undefeated European and Commonwealth champion Jay Harris but is predicting an explosive clash on October 11. Double Olympic medalist Barnes (6-2, 1 KO) welcomes Wales’ trail-blazing Harris (16-0, 8 KOs) to the #MTKFightNight at Belfast’s legendary Ulster Hall in a bout - broadcast live on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank - that will propel the winner to world title contention.
MTK Global is delighted to announce a return to the Ulster Hall in Belfast for a huge #MTKFightNight featuring a high-stakes flyweight showdown between Jay Harris and three-time Irish Olympian Paddy Barnes.
Robbie Davies Jr. has been ordered to defend his British super-lightweight title against Philip Bowes. The former WBA Continental champion grabbed the vacant belt against Joe Hughes when he claimed the European crown back in March. Davies Jr., who will return to the ring at the M&S Bank Arena Exhibition Centre on August 2, exclusively live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN Stateside, must face Philip Bowes in the near future.
Vale Sports Arena, Cardiff, Wales - For the vacant EBU flyweight title, Jay Harris (16-0, 8 KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career with a twelve round unanimous decision over Angel Moreno (19-4-2, 6 KOs). Moreno was coming off a twelve round decision loss to WBC world champion Charlie Edwards in March.
Undefeated Jay Harris will face world title challenger Angel Moreno for the vacant EBU flyweight title at Cardiff’s Vale Sports Arena on June 1 – live on ESPN+ and iFL TV. The popular Welshman (15-0-KO8) has already won the Commonwealth crown and will be looking to add another major belt to his collection against Moreno (19-3-2-KO6), who was outpointed by WBC world champion Charlie Edwards last month.
Jay Harris will challenge Vincent Legrand for the EBU flyweight title in Cardiff after MTK Global won the purse bids in Rome. The undefeated Swansea star (15-0-KO8), who has already won the Commonwealth crown, will face French southpaw Legrand (29-0-KO17) in a clash between two of the best 112-lb fighters on the planet.
Unbeaten Kieron Conway plans on silencing some of the doubters when he fights Gabor Gorbics at the East of England Arena in Peterborough on Saturday. Conway (9-0) heads into the fight on the back of a win over his MTK Global stablemate Gino Kanters in September, and he wants to put in a performance this weekend that puts the rest of the super-welterweight division on notice.
World-ranked Michael McKinson realises he may be forced to call out the welterweight’s divisions big names as he continues his march to world titles. ‘The Problem’ has already raced to a record of 15-0 and defends his WBC International Silver crown against the dangerous Ryan Kelly on the MTK Global show in Brentwood on March 9 – live on iFL TV.
Jay Harris plans on showing everybody just what he is capable of when he takes on Jaba Memishishi at the Vale Sports Arena in Cardiff on March 1. Undefeated Commonwealth flyweight champion Harris (14-0) wants to make a big statement in the bout, and is expecting to take full advantage of the fight being streamed live on iFL TV.