Terry Maughan must feel like a lifetime of Christmas' and birthdays are going to arrive in April and May.
The Nottingham light-middleweight boxes for his maiden professional belt, the vacant British Masters 11st strap against A.A Lowe on a Carl Greaves-promoted bill at Newark's Grove Leisure Centre on April 7, and has just been informed of even better news by Eddie Hearn.
The Matchroom Sport supremo Tweeted Maughan [pictured] to tell him that he's in the running to fill one of the three remaining spots on the all-Irish middleweight Prizefighter in Belfast on May 5 and, if he isn't chosen for it, that he'll definitely be on the Carl Froch homecoming show on May 19.
But first he has a small matter of local bragging rights in a Battle of Nottinghamshire bout with a hardy ex-Masters middleweight boss, 9-6-1 (1), who lives 20 miles up the road and who's been ten rounds with a bigger, stronger fighter [Harry Matthews] in his last two contests.
And though Tony Harris-trained Maughan, 6-2, has never done more than six-twos and enters the intriguing-looking scrap as a lively underdog, he's insistent he has the ability and stamina to stop the super-fit former Royal Marine from taking home a second belt at a brace of weights.
Yet in spite of the news he's just been given - and the fact that if he isn't boxing in the popular three-threes competition then he'll be boxing at a venue, Nottingham's Capital FM Arena, that he could walk to from his house - the 26-year-old Sneinton-based scrapper refuses to look past the challenge he has in just over five weeks time.
"It's great news that Hearn has put me on the shortlist for Prizefighter and that i will be boxing on the Froch undercard, but I've got a massive fight first and i can't stop thinking about that," admitted a man who hails from the same part of Nottingham as one of the greatest bare-knuckle pugilists in history, William 'Bendigo' Thompson.
"It's a big step up for me and a first time over 30 minutes, but i think i'll shock a few people on the night.
"The next couple of months are going to be exciting for me and it's exactly what I've been waiting for," added an Irish-rooted East Midlander who forced himself into the Prizefighter running with a Twitter campaign. "I won't let anyone down."
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