Elvis Dube has the opportunity to inflict more misery on a Sheffield boxer this weekend.
The iron-fisted Derby light-heavyweight [pictured] has been given a last-minute call to arms and boxes Wayne Reed, 7-3 (3), at Hillsborough [home to Sheffield Wednesday FC] on Friday night [December 2].
Reed was set to fight for the vacant Central Area 12st title on Glyn Rhodes' show but his opponent, Huddersfield's Jason McCalmon, pulled out through injury and Dube has been drafted in for a six-rounder in a city where he's gone unbeaten in his last two.
The 33-year-old, with four wins [three early] and a draw in 15, earned a 12-minute draw he is adamant he won against another Rhodes charge, Carl Wild, earlier this month having sensationally knocked out the normally-durable binman in just 123 seconds in July.
Though Wild won their first bout on points, Dube is unbeaten since and dangerous with rights that had British Masters champion Jonjo Finnegan on the deck and defeated - and Reed, a hard-punching 24-year-old who stopped Leicester's Jahmaine Smyle last year, can be hurt and stopped.
The southpaw appeared to have the beating of former WBC world super-middleweight champion Robin Reid until he was caught with eight seconds left of the fourth in June - and had been halted in the same session by Peter Federenko two years ago. But he's solid, can punch and been matched tough from the off.
But none of the this will matter to Jason Shinfield-trained Elvis, who'll be looking to check another Sheffield boxer into the increasingly-packed Heartbreak Hotel.
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