Manchester’s EBU lightweight champion John Murray takes to the ring to defend his title against Andriy Kudryavstev in Wigan tomorrow night, looking to put a dogged performance against Gary Buckland behind him and focus on moving his career up to the next level.
Murray came through a scrappy, high-tempo encounter with Buckland in May, overcoming a mid-fight slump and a gutsy opponent winning via an 11th-round TKO to maintain his unblemished record. Rumour has it that tomorrow night’s bout will act as a pre-cursor to Murray’s top-level fight debut, possibly against Victor Ortiz. Still, he won’t be looking past Kudryavstev and he has an interesting opponent in the form of the five-foot seven-and-a-half-inch Ukrainian.
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