Leicester welterweight Ryan Hookway gets a title shot next month.
He has been matched with Alec Bazza for the vacant British Masters Bronze title in Barnsley on Saturday, November 29.
Hookway hopes winning the title at the Metrodome will kick start his career.
He has boxed just seven times in his four-and-a-half year career and the 29-year-old said: "This fight is just what I need.
"I know I haven't been active enough. I've had injuries and work commitments and did think about packing up during the summer.
"But when I get older I want to be able to tell my daughter, Frankie, that I had a go.
"I just needed a fight like this to get me going again and (manager) Carl (Greaves) has come up with the goods.
"Ever since I found out the fight was on, I've given a bit extra in the gym and have been running at five o'clock every morning. I've never done that before.
"I know it's not a world title, but winning this title will make people take notice and help me get in the mix."
Hookway said his title bid has been boosted by sparring the "new Roberto Duran".
Duran, possibly the finest lightweight in history, was nicknamed 'Hands of Stone' – and that is what Hookway calls gym mate Ryan Bennett.
Bennett aims to make it back-to-back wins, in Lincoln, on Friday, November 7, and Hookway said: "Ryan hits so hard. I call him 'Hands of Stone' because he's got the power to turn your lights out.
"It's great sparring for me. I have to stay switched on."
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Boxer Paige Murney was a special guest at Carl Gunns Gym, in Birstall.
The 19-year-old went through her paces in front of gym members and was joined by Leicester Unity club-mate Leon Woodstock.
Murney has enjoyed an excellent year and struck gold at the prestigious Haringey Box Cup in the summer. Gunns invited her to his thriving gym to encourage the youngsters who regularly work out there.
"We have a lot of girls at the gym and they want to better themselves," he said.
"Paige is a girl who has done very well for herself and it will help anybody who watches the way she works. It was good for everyone at the gym that she came down, but particularly for any of the girls who might be thinking, 'I can do that.'
"Paige's success just shows them what can be achieved."
