Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith prime a stable invoice tonight on the AO Arena, Manchester full of high quality home expertise. The always-exciting Florian Marku, cheered on by his horde of Albanian followers, is in motion towards Dylan Moran of Ireland whereas one among Britain's brightest prospects, Adam Azim, goes toe to toe with Ukraine's Aram Faniian.

Above them, on the invoice, there may be British welterweight champion and Olympic gold medallist Lauren Price, who continues her surge in direction of world honours as she takes on former WBO title challenger Lolita Muzeya. Meanwhile, former unified tremendous featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer is seeking to keep energetic after shedding her belts to Alycia Baumgardner final 12 months with a late-notice bout towards Italian veteran Silvia Bortot.

There can be a top quality British middleweight title struggle being staged between Mark Heffron and Jack Cullen that guarantees to excite. But maybe essentially the most anticipated contest on the cardboard, for higher or worse, is Frazer Clarke vs Dave Allen. 

Allen, a family title on the British circuit, retired from the game shortly after being knocked unconscious by Oleksandr Usyk in a sparring session in 2020 however returned to the ring a couple of months later to place collectively a string of wins over journeymen Andrea Pesce, Milen Paunov and Michael Bassett. He now steps between the ropes towards his first real risk since David Price, 4 years in the past, as he throws down with undefeated skilled and Olympic bronze medallist, Clarke.

Full card

Liam Smith vs Chris Eubank Jr 

Frazer Clarke vs David Allen

Lauren Price vs Lolita Muzeya

Mikaela Mayer vs Silvia Bortot

Adam Azim vs Aram Faniian

Mark Heffron vs Jack Cullen

Frankie Stringer vs Engel Gomez

Florian Marku vs Dylan Moran

Quotes

Eubank Jr: "What happened in the last fight was not supposed to happen. Even to Liam, he may not admit it, but he was not expecting the fight to finish how it finished. Nobody was…I have to prove that I am the better fighter.

"Me saying it, me believing it's not sufficient. If he pulls it off once more, if he does what he did within the first struggle on this struggle, I can’t argue with anyone. I can’t argue with him, I can’t argue with the boxing public. He would be the higher fighter and that’ll be it. But as of proper now, I consider, I do know I'm the higher fighter and I’m going to go on the market and show it on Saturday night time.”

Smith: “Brian and the rest of the team over there, they’ll be prepared for the backlash again because he’ll blame you once he loses this. Nutrition, you come in light, he’ll blame everyone else, but Chris Eubank got it wrong.

"You made too many mistakes. You made the mistakes, Roy didn’t make the mistakes, BoMac’s not gonna make the mistakes this time. You make the mistakes, just take it on the chin yourself. You lost the fight because you got nailed. And the miracle was just how easy it was. The fight never even got going.”