A brace of Midland belts are up for grabs this weekend on two good-value shows.
Firstly, on a First Team-promoted show at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday night (February 26), Coseley's 11-fight (10 wins, one inside) unbeaten Jamie Ball and Newark's ex-marine Andrew Alan (A.A) Lowe (pictured) clash for the vacant 11st strap.
Interestingly, this will be the first show at the Town Hall since October 2006.
Sturdy southpaw Ball, 26, boxed for the same title before Christmas, being held to a ten-round draw with dangerous Telford's Keiron Gray, who managed to deck the Black Country lefty in the final three minutes.
Gray retired immediately after and now Lowe, 8-3 (1) and who is only boxing for the third time in three years, gets a second chance to secure the Midland belt. He fought for the welterweight version in 2008, and was ground down by hard-as-nails Mark Lloyd in eight rounds.
The following day (February 27), at the Heritage Hotel in Derby, hometown hero Dave Ryan crosses swords with Northampton's Leonard Lothian, 10-8-2, for light-welterweight belt.
Ryan, who held this belt at 10st 7lbs until a shock defeat to erratic Kevin McCauley last October, has lost three on the bounce (albeit in solid company) after racking nine wins (two stoppages) in ten but holds a six-round points victory over Lothian in 2007.
Styles should mesh well on Clifton Mitchell's Sunday afternoon card, with the 27-year-old East Midlander favourite to add his second Area belt at a second weight.
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