
Frank Warren: Ricky Burns Deserves More Recognition
Promoter Frank Warren believes "nice guy" Ricky Burns should already have hero status throughout the United Kingdom.
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Promoter Frank Warren believes "nice guy" Ricky Burns should already have hero status throughout the United Kingdom.

LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT Adam Etches is tuning up his big fight later this month by sparring with heavyweight stable-mate Richard Towers.

Ricky Burns believes he may be looking at an outdoor defence of his WBO lightweight title in the summer as the Braehead Arena heads for a sell-out for Saturday's clash with Paulus Moses.

RYAN RHODES has been forced to pull out of this month’s European light-middleweight title showdown against Sergey Rabchenko due to a back injury.

Ricky Burns aims to repay the fans who will pack out the Braehead Arena on Saturday night with victory when he defends his WBO lightweight title against Paulus Moses.

The first training diary went down well last month so I think a second diary entry is probably overdue at this point with the fight now less than 2 weeks away.

Three-weight world champion Marco Antonio Barrera has heaped praise on veteran promoter Frank Warren as the ‘Baby-Faced Assasin’ lauded the rise of Scotland’s world champion Ricky Burns in an interview with The Daily Record.

York Hall, Bethnal Green – Unheralded Felix Lora, 14-9-5 (8), came out of the traps like a man possessed against Kevin Mitchell in front of a noisy, capacity York Hall crowd in last Friday’s main event. Mitchell had acknowledged that Lora was likely to provide him with a test pre-fight but cannot have expected the Dominican, by way of Barcelona, to unceasingly throw haymaker after haymaker in a wild attempt to turn out The Dagenham Destroyer’s lights.

English Super Middleweight Champion Paul David is set to face Prizefighter - Light Heavyweight winner Travis Dickinson on the undercard of the Frank Maloney and Tommy Gilmore promoted Denis Shafikov versus Lee McAllister European Light Welterweight Title fight the Exhibition Centre in Aberdeen on Saturday 25th February.

Kevin Mitchell set his sights on an all-British world title fight with Scotland's Ricky Burns after beating Felix Lora at London's York Hall. Mitchell outpointed his Dominican rival over 10 rounds before challenging WBO lightweight champion Burns.