When Eric Aiken met Valdemir Pereira on the Ricky Hatton-Luis Collazo card at the Boston Garden last May, Aiken won the IBF featherweight title when referee Charlie Dwyer disqualified the Brazilian champion for repeated low blows. Aiken, who subsequently lost the title in his next fight (to Roberto Guerrero, who also lost in his first defense but regained the championship last Friday night by beating Spend Abazi in Denmark), returns to New England for a rematch with Pereira atop an Al Valenti/Art Pelullo-promoted ESPN2 card March 16 at Rockingham Park.

New Hampshire middleweight Jason LeHoullier fights North Carolinian Martinus Clay in the co-feature of the card, the first boxing show at the venerable New Hampshire race track in a dozen years.

LeHoullier (20-0, 8 KOs), who grew up in Barrington, N.H. and now calls Portland, Me. home, will take on Martinus Clay (12-13-2; 4 KOs)†in an eight-round junior middleweight fight that will give him the chance to†extend his undefeated record in front of†friendly fans.

"It's been ten months since my last fight and I'm really ready to go.To be able to get back in the ring right here in New Hampshire is really great,"†said LeHoullier, who outpointed Michael Melvin in his last outing, also on the Hatton-Collazo undercard. "I've been fighting around New England and in Hampton Beach,†and I do have a local following. The crowd can†definitely help me."

Two other local favorites – Irish-born middleweight Gerry Grealish and Lowell welterweight Sean Eklund, who is trained by his uncle, Micky Ward – are also slated to box on the card.

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