BBN list details for all the British boxers on show during the summer
Want to know where to watch this summer’s British boxing action?
Check out a list of televised shows involving British boxers hitting your screens during the next few months:
Friday, July 10 – BT Sport 1
Brad Foster vs James Beech Jr
12×3 British & Commonwealth super bantamweight titles
Reigning champion Brad Foster (12-0-2) headlined the last Queensberry Promotions show before lockdown and is the same man to top the bill as boxing returns. He is aiming to defend his Lonsdale belt to win it outright against fellow Midlander James Beech Jr (12-0), live on BT Sport.
Undercard highlights: Hamzah Sheeraz vs Paul Kean for the WBO European super welterweight title
More details: Foster vs Beech
Saturday, July 18 – FITE TV
Scott Harrison vs Paul Peers
12×3 non-title contest
Former long-time WBO Featherweight World Champion Scott 'The Real McCoy' Harrison (27-3-2) makes his long awaited return to the ring when he faces Professional Boxing Council (PBC) International Champion Paul Peers (0-2) in a non-championship contest on the PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA Presented LET BATTLE COMMENCE behind closed doors event at the Northern Hotel in Aberdeen, that will be broadcast live and exclusive on FITE TV worldwide, as well as delayed broadcast in the UK on Sports Channel Network (SCN) Channel 265 on Freeview/YouView.
Undercard highlights: Caitlin Foran vs Jaime Bates for the PBC International Silver title
More details: Harrison vs Peers
Saturday, July 25 – BT Sport 1
Joe Joyce vs Michael Wallisch
10×3 Heavyweight contest
'Juggernaut' Joe Joyce (10-0, 9KOs) faces off against German Michael Wallisch (20-3, 13KOs) over 10-rounds, as tune-up fight ahead of his highly anticipated clash with Daniel Dubois later this year. The 34-year-old from Munich has been stopped in three of his last four fights, not even making it to the halfway stage, so 'JJJ' will be getting some target practise in this mismatch.
Undercard highlights: Chris Bourke vs Ramez Mahmood for the Southern Area super bantamweight title
More details: Joyce vs Wallisch
Friday, July 31 – BT Sport 1
Lyndon Arthur vs Dec Spelman
12×3 Commonwealth light heavyweight title
Reigning Commonwealth champion Lyndon Arthur (16-0, 12KOs) defends his belt for the first time to stand-in opponent Dec Spelman (16-3, 8KOs), after Anthony Yarde withdrew, live on BT Sport.
Undercard highlights: Nick Ball vs Jerome Campbell Eight-round super featherweight contest
More details: Arthur vs Spelman
Saturday, August 1 – Sky Sports
Sam Eggington vs Ted Cheeseman
12×3 IBF International super welterweight title
IBF #5 Sam Eggington (28-6) defends his International strap to Bermondsey boxer Ted Cheeseman (15-2-1), live on Sky Sports, in the first of four weekly Matchroom Boxing shows, title ‘Fight Camp’, at the Promotion’s headquarters in Essex.
Undercard highlights: James Tennyson vs Gavin Gwynne for the vacant British lightweight title
More details: Eggington vs Cheeseman
Friday, August 7 – Sky Sports
Terri Harper vs Natasha Jonas
10×2 WBC & IBO World Female super featherweight titles
Denaby’s unified world champion Terri Harper (10-0, 5KOs) defends her WBC and IBO belts to Tasha Jonas (9-1, 7KOs), live on Sky Sports.
Undercard highlights: Chris Billam-Smith vs Nathan Thorley for the Commonwealth cruiserweight title
More details: Harper vs Jonas
Wednesday, August 12 – iFL TV & ESPN+
Jono Carroll vs Maxi Hughes
10×3 Lightweight contest
‘Celtic Warrior’ Jono Carroll (18-1-1, 4KOs) continues his impressive bounce back from world title defeat to Tevin Farmer with another decent opponent in two-time British title challenger Maxi Hughes (20-5-1, 4KOs), live and exclusive on iFL TV and ESPN+, at the purpose-built production studios LS-LIVE in Yorkshire.
Undercard highlights: Sahir Iqbal vs Maredudd Thomas for the vacant WBC Youth World welterweight title
More details: Carroll vs Hughes
Friday, August 14 – Sky Sports
Felix Cash vs Jason Welborn
12×2 Commonwealth middleweight title
Fast-rising middleweight prospect Felix Cash (12-0, 8KOs) defends his Commonwealth strap to former British champion and world title contender Jason Welborn (24-8, 7KOs), live on Sky Sports.
Undercard highlights: Zelfa Barrett vs Eric Donovan 10-round super featherweight contest
More details: Cash vs Welborn
Thursday, August 20 – BT Sport 1
Archie Sharp vs Jeff Ofori
10×3 WBO European super featherweight title
'Sharpshooter' Archie Sharp (18-0, 9KOs) defends his WBO strap, that he won in that epic fight with Leon Woodstock in 2018, for the fourth time to former Southern Area lightweight titlist Jeff Ofori, live on BT Sport.
Undercard highlights: Troy Williamson vs Michael McGurk for the IBF European super welterweight title
More details: Sharp vs Ofori
Saturday, August 22 – Sky Sports Box Office
Dillian Whyte vs Alexander Povetkin
12×2 WBC Interim World heavyweight title
Brixton’s ‘Body Snatcher’ Dillian Whyte (27-1, 18KOs) defends his WBC strap to former world champion Alexander Povetkin (35-2-1, 24KOs), who is still upsetting younger prospects at the age of 40. The final of four ‘Matchroom Fight Camp’ shows will require payment as it goes live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Undercard highlights: Katie Taylor vs Delfine Persoon 10-round WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO World Female lightweight titles
More details: Whyte vs Povetkin
Wednesday, August 26 – iFL TV & ESPN+
David Oliver Joyce vs Ionut Baluta
10×3 WBO European super-bantamweight title
‘The Croc’ takes a bite of ‘The Medway Mauler’ as unbeaten 23-year-old Belfast boxer Lewis Crocker (11-0, 6KOs) meets former Southern Area welterweight champion Louis Greene (12-1, 7KOs) for the vacant WBO European belt, live and exclusive on iFL TVand ESPN+, at the purpose-built production facilities, LS-LIVE in South Kirkby.
Undercard highlights: Lewis Crocker vs Louis Greene 10×3 WBO European welterweight title
More details: Gething vs Cully
Saturday, August 29 – BT Sport 1
Daniel Dubois vs Erik Pfeifer
12×3 WBO International heavyweight title
Heavyweight sensation 'Dynamite' Daniel Dubois (14-0, 13KOs) is back in action against Olympian Erik Pfeifer (7-0, 5KOs), who competed in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and also has two World Championships bronze medals. The unbeaten, heavy-handed pair will square off live on BT Sport.
Undercard highlights: Sam Maxwell vs Joe Hughes for the WBO European super lightweight title
More details: Dubois vs Pfeifer
Wednesday, September 2 – iFL TV & ESPN+
Philip Bowes vs Akeem Ennis-Brown
12×3 British & Commonwealth super lightweight titles
Reigning Commonwealth 140lbs champ Philip Bowes (20-3, 3KOs) defends his belt while also vying for the British super lightweight title against unbeaten former English champ Akeem Ennis-Brown (13-0,1KO), live and exclusive on iFL TVand ESPN+, at the purpose-built production facilities, LS-LIVE in South Kirkby.
Undercard highlights: Dan Azeez vs Andre Sterling for the English light heavyweight title
More details: Bowes vs Ennis-Brown
Sunday, September 13 – Fightstream TV
Alex Fearon vs Ben Fields
10×3 Midlands Area super lightweight titles
Once-beaten Derby southpaw Alex Fearon (9-1) gets a second crack at Midlands Area title honours, this time in the weight class below at super lightweight. Despite his unflattering record, Fearon’s opponent Ben Fields (9-8-2) is a formidable foe who upset five unbeaten fighters in a row in 2019. The pair clash on a Mitchell Sports Promotions show, live and exclusive on Fightstream TV, at Hangar 34 in Liverpool.
Undercard highlights: Jack Bateson vs TBA Eight-rounds super bantamweight contest
Wednesday, September 26 – iFL TV & ESPN+
Golden Contract light-heavyweight semi-final
Ricards Bolotniks vs TBA
10×3 Light-heavyweight contest
One of three semi-finalists will face Ricards Bolotniks in the Golden Contract light-heavyweight semis – Hosea Burton, Liam Conroy, or Serge Michel – live and exclusive on iFL TVand ESPN+, in Riga, Latvia, on a co-promotion with LNK Boxing. The draw to see who will face who will be held later in August.
Undercard highlights: To be announced
More details: https://britishboxingnews.co.uk/blogs/golden-contract-light-heavyweight-semi-finals-to-take-place-over-two-separate-countries
Wednesday, September 30 – Sky Sports
Golden Contract Finals
10×3 Super-lightweight final & 10×3 Featherweight final
Bitter rivals Ohara Davies and Tyrone McKenna clash in the Golden Contract super-lightweights final, and evenly-matched Ryan Walsh and Jazza Dickens collide in the featherweights final, live on Sky Sports, behind closed doors at the York Hall in Bethnal Green.
Undercard highlights: One of the Golden Contract light-heavyweight semi-finals will appear on the bill between any two of these three – Hosea Burton, Liam Conroy, or Serge Michel
More details: McKenna vs Davies & Walsh vs Dickens
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