Kevin Mitchell to take on John Murray for WBO Intercontinental Lightweight title – Boxing news
The British professional boxer Kevin Martin Mitchell, who is the winner of ABA British Featherweight Championship, will be facing the 26-year-old John Murray in their 12-round bout for the vacant WBO Intercontinental Lightweight title on July 16, 2011 at
the Echo Arena in Liverpool, Merseyside.
The fight will be co-featured as part of the Ricky Burns’ WBO super-featherweight title defence against British Nicky Cook.
Mitchell is now coming back to the ring after more than a year following his third round technical knockout loss against Michael Katsidis of Australia in May 2010 at the Upton Park in West Ham, London.
Michael ‘The Great’ Katsidis won the WBO Lightweight title in the process. Kevin ‘The Dagenham Destroyer’ Mitchell, who fights at Super Featherweight and Lightweight divisions, turned professional winning a knockout decision against Stevie Quinn in 2003.
Murray is an undefeated prospect and he is now returning to the ring after winning all of his 31 competitions against the world’s best boxers of his division. The brother of former British Olympian Joe Murray and the reigning European Lightweight Champion,
Murray turned professional winning a four-round points decision against Peter Buckley of United Kingdom at the Leisure Centre in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 2003.
The English Lightweight professional boxer John Murray claimed the European Boxing Union Lightweight Title winning a technical knockout decision against the 25-year-old Gary ‘Dynamo’ Buckland of United Kingdom in May 2010 at the Kingsway Leisure Centre in
Widnes, Cheshire.
Murray has successfully defended his European Lightweight Title a couple of times. His first successful defence was against Andriy Kudryavtsev in 2010 in United Kingdom and the second one was against Karim El Ouazghari in April 2011 at the York Hall in Bethnal
Green, London.
Let’s see who emerges out as the winner of this bout.
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