Jazza Dickens: record, next fight and profile →
MTK Global will return to Liverpool in the summer. The promotional outfit was last in the city last month when Jazza Dickens became mandatory for the Commonwealth featherweight title with a fifth-round stoppage win over Nasibu Ramadhan at the Eventim Olympia.
Jazza Dickens will be back in title action very soon. The 28-year-old knocked out Nasibu Ramadhan on Friday, exclusively live on iFL TV. Dickens, who linked up with Tony Bellew in the build-up to his return, is now mandatory for Leigh Wood’s Commonwealth featherweight title after icing the Tanzanian at the Eventim Olympia in Liverpool atop an MTK Global Fight Night card.
Tickets for the Heavyweight debut of pound-for-pound star Oleksandr Usyk against Carlos Takam on Saturday May 25 at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK, go on pre-sale today at 10am ET.
Jazza Dickens looks set for a longer stint Stateside. The former British super-bantamweight champion, who has also challenged for a world title, is meant to fight Brad Foster for the vacant Lonsdale belt in London next month. Dickens is awaiting a date and venue for the clash with the Lichfield man and has in the meantime revealed that he has signed a deal to fight across the Pond after a successful spell in Miami.
Jazza Dickens finally looks to have a dance partner for his next title fight. The former British super-bantamweight champion had been set to challenge Martin Ward, and his brother Thomas before him, for the vacant crown. But Dickens upped sticks and moved to Miami, Florida, after it was revealed that there were no fights this side of the pond for him and he even secured a first-round win .
Former British super bantamweight champion James ‘Jazza’ Dickens is enjoying life in Miami as he looks set to challenge for titles in the coming months. The world title challenger has made a move stateside in the quest of titles, and looked sensational in his first outing across the Atlantic, gaining a first round KO in the Dominican Republic last Friday evening.
The rematch between Liverpool’s James Jazza Dickens and County Durham’s Martin Ward at the Rainton Meadows Arena on July 27 is now off, with Ward sidelined by a hand injury. The show, which will be shown live on Freesports (Freeview 95, Freesat 252, Sky 422, BT 95, Talk Talk 95), still goes ahead though and is topped by Martin’s brother, Tommy, 23-0 (3), in an IBF European Super Bantamweight Title fight against Spain’s Alvaro Rodriguez, 8-1-1 (1).
Martin Ward’s team have stoked up the heat ahead of his rematch with Jazza Dickens by claiming the the Liverpool-based boxer is a dirty fighter. The two boxers contest the vacant British Super bantamweight title on a Phil Jeffries-promoted bill at the Rainton Meadows Arena on July 27 and Ward (26-4-1, 5 KOs) will hope to gain revenge over the man who beat him by decision in November 2015 when defending the same title.
West Rainton-based Martin Ward (26-4-1, 5 KOs) meets Jazza Dickens (23-3, 8 early) for the second time when they contest the vacant British Super bantamweight title at the Rainton Meadows Arena on July 27 and the 30-year-old wants to go 1-1 in his rivalry with Dickens, who beat him by a Split Decision for the same title in November 2015.
Martin Ward, 26-4-1 (5), gets the chance to avenge his 2015 defeat to James Jazza Dickens on July 27, when the pair clash at the Rainton Meadows Arena for the vacant British Super Bantamweight Title, live on Freesports (Freeview 95, Freesat 252, Sky 422, BT 95, Talk Talk 95).