Norfolk’s Ryan Walsh will step back into the ring in September – eager to get back on the title trail.
The multiple British featherweight champion, from Cromer, will face Reece Mould, the former WBA Continental lightweight champion, over 10 rounds in Sheffield on September 27. The prize for the winner is the WBO Global lightweight title.
Walsh, 38, is eager to get back into title contention, as is Mould, 29.
“It’s going to be a great fight,” said Walsh’s trainer, Graham Everett. “Mould last his last fight, but he is highly rated – it’s a crossroads fight for both men, but Ryan really has got the bit between his teeth in the gym.”
Walsh has won 28 of his 34 outings, the last of which came in Norwich in December.
Reece Mould (Image: PA)
Doncaster fighter Mould – who signed up to Sheffield promoter Izzy Asif – has 18 wins and two defeats, having been beaten on his last outing, a split decision against Gary Cully in Dublin in November.
"Reece lost in Ireland, although I thought he should have won, a lot of people did,” Asif told the Sheffield Star.
"His style is come-forward, he doesn't just sit there behind his jab."
Asif says Mould, who trains at Josh Warrington's stable in Leeds, is improving all the time.
"Josh says the best is yet to come with Reece and that suggests he is improving and showing things in the gym we haven't seen yet,” he said. "He'll bring his A game on his next fight.”
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