Bouts announced as Sky spectacle looms

The entertaining evening of boxing set for January 27, to be staged at Sky Club in Paceville, has generated a great amount of interest which is reflected by the sound number of bookings received for the night.

The organisers of this boxing spectacle, the European Boxing Federation (EBF) in collaboration with local promoter Paul Borg, have announced the names of the foreign boxers and their Maltese challengers.

The bouts on the night will be Dione Galea vs Jordan Black, Etienne Spiteri vs Slinky Cumberlbach, Clayton Vella vs Scott Conners, Justin Grech vs Phill Worell and Tyrone Borg vs Dale Ball.

Further to these bouts, which will be made up of four two-minute sessions, there will be an additional supporting fight between local boxers Brandon Borg and Keith Mills.

As already announced, the main bout of the evening will be that between Maltese heavyweight Billy Corito and UK’s Ian Toby, an ex-professional with over 52 fights to his credit.

Corito, known as ‘the hit man’ in local boxing circles, is now on the EBF books and occupies eighth place in the EBF top 10 heavy-weight rankings.

The 28-year-old Corito started training at Bertu’s Gym but is now gearing up for the coming fight with the Barun Boxing Team in Siġġiewi while sharpening his physical conditioning at Lords Gym.

Corito is very keen on next week’s fight, his first since going semi-professional within the arms of the EBF, and his eighth since taking up boxing seriously.

The Corito-Toby fight will be made up of six sessions of three minutes each.

The EBF, established in 2005, is Great Britain’s and Europe’s largest semi-professional and white-collar boxing authority.

The federation hosts and officiates over 100 shows per year and currently has over 1,100 registered boxers across Great Britain and Europe at varied levels of skill (white collar, novice, intermediate, and semi-pro).

Another attraction before next week’s event is the weigh-in session for all boxers on the eve of the big night, today week.

This is being held at the Black Bull Pub, in Paceville, at 2.30 p.m.

Tickets selling at €25 (VIP) and €15 are available from London Butcher (Gżira), Art of Fighting Kick Boxing Club (Fgura) and Boxway Fitness Centre (Msida).