Two British fighters battle it out for one world title for the first time since May this weekend as the current WBA Featherweight champ Leigh Wood takes on former IBF Featherweight champ Josh Warrington in Sheffield. 

Before the main event though are a couple of potential future stars of British boxing and a couple of fights that could well steal the show from the main event and we’ve taken a closer look into them. 

Fighters To Watch:

Cameron Vuong - An ABA champion this year, Vuong boxed out of the infamous Birtley Boxing Club in the North East of England before turning professional with Matchroom and teaming up with Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis in Salford.

A slick counterpuncher, he already looks massive for the super-featherweight limit in which he will make his pro debut at and he’ll be looking to use that size to his full advantage when he takes on Engel Gomez on Saturday.

The fact he has been used by Jack Catterall for sparring ahead of his fight with Jorge Linares is a testament to just how good Vuong is already so who knows just what he will be able to achieve over the next 10 years.

Junaid Bostan - A fighter we have been shouting from the rooftops about for a while now, we included the 21-year-old super-welterweight in our prospects to watch for this year and so far, he has continued to impress. 

Out of Grant Smith’s successful Steel City Gym in Sheffield which is the home of the likes of Sunny Edwards, Dalton Smith & Florian Marku, the hard-hitting southpaw is now 6-0 with five knockouts on his record. 

Taken to points for the first time in his career in his last fight against the durable Ryan Amos, he has so far shown maturity beyond his years inside and outside of the ring and with the ability to fight just as well as he can talk, he’ll be looking to make a statement against the 7-3-1 Corey McCulloch. 

Fights To Watch:

Hopey Price vs Connor Coghill - 11-0 vs 14-0, the exciting Dave Coldwell-trained Hopey Price faces off with the lesser-known Connor Coghill in a cracking featherweight contest.

Since turning pro with Matchroom back in 2019, Price’s progression in the pro ranks has been so far faultless but so far under plenty of spotlight and he heads into this fight as the big fav. 

A notoriously tricky southpaw, he has grown with age both physically and mentally and he’ll be looking to add to his unbeaten record on Saturday.

Coghill meanwhile has gone much more under the radar. He’s barely lost a round in his 14 pro fights to date but did have to overcome plenty of adversity against Davit Hovhannisyan back in 2022.

Dropped in the third & seventh rounds, he pulled out a left hook from the gods to get the stoppage in the penultimate round to keep hold of his unbeaten record. 

It has the potential to really catch fire with two hungry, unbeaten prospects putting it all on the line. No matter what the result is, we’ll certainly learn plenty about the potential of both fighters. 

Kieron Conway vs Linus Udofia - The co-main event sees a belter of a middleweight clash as Kieron Conway takes on Linus Udofia for the WBA Inter-Continental title. 

A regular on Matchroom cards since his draw with Ted Cheeseman back in 2019, Conway has built up a reputation for being a fighter willing to fight anyone and more often than not, giving a good account of himself in the process. He has wins over the likes of Macaulay McGowan, JJ Metcalf & Craig O’Brien with his losses coming to high-level opposition such as Ammo Williams and Souleymane Cissokho.

Udofia has had an apprenticeship away from the spotlight and picked up the English title against John Harding back in 2020. His only career defeat to date came in a close split-decision loss to Denzel Bentley last year in a fight that really could have gone either way.

A skilled fighter, he may not be the best opponent that Conway has been in with but this is a man who is on the comeback and he knows that a victory on Saturday could well see him secure a contract with Matchroom and catapult him onto the big stage once again.

Expect the early rounds to be cagey as both fighters look to suss each other out and download the data but it will at some point turn into a war of attrition and it may well just come down to who wants it more.