The Golden Contract finals will now take place at Production Park Studios in Wakefield on September 30th. Featherweight Ryan Walsh knows that his all-British fight with Jazza Dickens could make or break his career. Walsh (26-2-2, 12 KOs) and Dickens (29-3, 11 KOs) meet on a show to be broadcast live in the UK on Sky Sports, and live in the US on ESPN+. Walsh defeated Hairon Socarras and Tyrone McCullagh to reach the final, but he knows that the stakes are at an all-time high against Dickens. He said: “This is do or die. This is my life and everybody that knows boxing knows that this is going to be a good fight. The delay has meant we’ve had more time to look at Jazza, and we’ve been lucky enough to get good sparring in to mimic different aspects of him.

 

Wlash contined, “even with everything going on over the last few months, I never got out of the swing of things. I was always running in the morning or evening, and training throughout the day, so it hasn’t affected me and I’m more than ready. The fight deserves a crowd, and it would have been greater with a crowd, but it won’t define me one way or the other and I’m going to win.”

 

The Golden Contract featherweight final takes place on the same night as the junior welterweight final, as Ohara Davies faces Tyrone McKenna, while that evening also sees a light-heavyweight semi-final between Liam Conroy and Serge Michel .

 

The other light-heavyweight semi-final sees Hosea Burton travel to Latvia to take on Ricards Bolotniks on September 26th, with that fight broadcast live on IFL TV.