Duane Parker knows extending his unbeaten pro record to 13 fights on Monday night (February 28) will lead to a title shot in April.
The Woodville light-middleweight meets Leicester's always-willing Simon Fleck, five wins and a draw in 14, over eight rounds on a Pat Cowdell show at Birmingham's Holiday Inn - and is then penciled in to fight the winner of the vacant Midland Area 11st title scrap between stablemate Jamie Ball and Andrew Alan Lowe, who meet on Saturday night in Walsall.
Tall and measured, Parker, 23, has rattled out 12 wins in as many paid outings and, after an almost-four-year apprenticeship, is itching for title action.
“I feel I’m ready to take the step up,” said the Derby County supporter, who dropped his last opponent, Rick Boulter, on the way to a resounding six-round points victory in Birmingham last month.
“I’m improving and hitting harder.”
Another Errol Johnson-trained Burton boxer on Cowdell's city centre card is British Masters super-middleweight champion Jonjo Finnegan, 13-5-3, who meets Derby's Elvis Dube over six.
Former Irish light-heavyweight title challenger Finnegan, who boxed Parker's opponent, Fleck, as an amateur, captured his first pro title in Burton in October - a hard-fought ten-round nod over Sheffield binman Dean Walker (who'd held him to a draw in 2006) - and a win in the Second City will see him top the bill in defence of his Masters belt in April.
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