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Daddy Bellingham Ready For Ring Return

Jack Bellingham is ready to swap kid gloves for boxing gloves as he returns to the ring after a spell of paternity leave.

The Plymouth super welterweight garnered a feverish following as he breezed to 2-0, but has taken most of 2016 off to spend time with his newborn baby.

This weekend, Bellingham joins a host of Plymouth pugilist at the Guildhall for Western Country Boxing’s ‘Fright Night’ show, sponsored by Grosvenor Casino Plymouth.

The 26 year-old takes on Slovakia Rudolf Durica.

“I’m raring to go now,” Bellingham explained to uko-boxing.com ahead of his return this evening. “My first son was born back in 2011 and I sacrificed a lot of time with him so I could keep training.

“But with my second, Romeo I sat down and thought about it and decided to have a bit of time off. I’m a professional now and I didn’t want to be away from home for long training camps.”

Bellingham added:

“I’ve had that time and the little one is in a routine now, so it’s been perfect. I’m ready to get back in there.

“I went to the last Guildhall show and was absolutely gutted not to be on it so now I’m itching to get back in there.”

At the top of Saturday’s bill Guernsey middleweight, Tom Duff, will make the short hop over the Channel once again to challenge Plymouth’s Cristian Hoskin-Gomez for the British Challenge Middleweight Title.

Des ‘The Destroyer’ Newton, Wes Smith, Faheem Khan and Marcus Hodgson also feature.

Standard tickets for Fight Night are £30 and are available by calling: 07506 108 232. VIP have now SOLD OUT. Doors open at 6:30pm with boxing commencing at 7:30pm at Plymouth Guildhall, Armada Way, Plymouth, PL1 2AA. A handful of tickets will be available to purchase on the door.

The weigh-in and Aftershow Party (over 18’s only) take place at Grosvenor Casino Plymouth, Derry’s Cross, Plymouth, PL1 2SW (just a two-minute walk from the Guildhall).

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