How to watch Hamzah Sheeraz vs Francisco Emmanuel Torres
BBN have provided all the details you need to tune in and watch Hamzah Sheeraz vs Francisco Emmanuel Torres on the 211th day of the year in a packed 12-fight card presented by Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions.
Everything you need to know about Sheeraz-Torres below:
Date
Saturday, July 30.
Venue
It takes place at Copper Box Arena, London.
Rounds scheduled
10x three-minute championship rounds at middleweight (160lbs).
Titles
The vacant WBC Silver middleweight title is on the line.
Ringwalks
Ringwalks could be any time around 10pm (GMT), but boxing events are often subject to delays.
TV Coverage
TV coverage is from 7pm to 12am on BT Sport 1 (Channel 413) – £25 per month subscripton fees.
Live Stream
You can live stream the Queensberry Promotions event online via BT Sport website or BT Sport app – available to download for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets.
You can also keep up date with the action by following the BT Sport Boxing account on Twitter, as well as the official Frank Warren Twitter account
BBN will be providing LIVE updates on the night, right HERE
Tickets
Tickets are available from See Tickets starting from £58.25
Background
Trained by Ricky Nunez in the Ten Goose gym in LA, the Boxing Writers' Club Young Boxer of the Year is hunning for a world ranking against Argentina's Torres, who just took former WBA interim world super-lightweight champion Jose Benavidez Jr. the 10-round distance in his last fight.
This will be only the second fight at middleweight for the Ilford-born boxer. After his controversial victory over Bradley Skeete in 2021, where he was largely outboxed and deducted a point for hitting his opponent while on the floor, the 23-year-old Brit has moved up a division to fight the belt that three other Brits have held before, including Sam Eggington, Liam Williams and Martin Murray, and which gives the holder a top-15 world ranking.
Undercard Highlights
The co-feature will be the eagerly-awaited super-middleweight clash between British and Commonwealth champion Lennox Clarke (20-1-1, 8KO) and challenger Mark Heffron (27-2-1, 21KO), which is guaranteed to be an explosive encounter.
Oldham's 'Kid Dynamite' has put together two third-round KOs at super-middleweight after losing to Denzel Bentley for the British middleweight title in 2020. This will be his third shot a Lonsdale belt, having lost to Liam Williams in his first crack after 10 exciting rounds in 2018. The heavy-handed 30-year-old has a 70% KO ratio and is never in a dull fight.
Brummie boxer Clarke has just one defeat on his ledger, to newly-crowned IBO World super-middleweight champion Lerrone Richards, now unbeaten in 16 bouts. His last win over rising prospect Willy Hutchinson for the vacant Commonwealth and British belts surprised everyone but him. He stopped the hot prospect in round five of their March fight.
Quotes
Sheeraz: "It is great to be back, but I accepted two camps ago that I would be working in America for most of my life. As long as I keep winning and doing my thing, I will be there training most of the time.
"I am willing to dedicate myself to my craft and give it nothing but 100%. Boxing is about sacrifice at the end of the day and to be great you have got to sacrifice the pleasures in life. Not totally, and become depressed or anything, only for camp.
"This is probably the smoothest camp I've had and it is my fourth with Ricky now. We've gelled and we've got a good understanding of each other. He understands me more as a fighter now, how I move and do things. It is good and I can't complain.
"I've been going to the Wild Card gym for sparring and even the coaches there are saying I have come on leaps and bounds. If you've got the greats like Freddie Roach and his understudy Pep, as well as Joe Goosen telling me I've come on, then I am pretty sure I have."
"Of course, there were loads of names chucked at us – world level names as well – and we said yes to all of them. Torres is the one who said yeah and he is ranked higher than me. He knows his way around the ring, he knows what he is doing and he is not here to mess about, so hopefully I can get the job done in a good fashion.
"Hopefully I will win this fight and get a top six ranking with the WBC. Once you are there, in a few more fights, I could get myself either into a mandatory position or the champion might decide to have a voluntary defence. If they choose me then happy days!"
Predictions
Tim Rickson, BBN Editor: “Sheeraz is improving all the time, so I'm expecting him to win a hard fight by knockout. He hasn't been taken the distance since a six-rounder in 2018, so I'm expecting a 10th stright KO win, probably in the second half of the contest.”
Tale of the Tape
Sheeraz
Age: 23
Bouts: 15
Rounds: 63
Wins: 15
Losses: 0
Draws: 0
KO Wins: 11
KOs: 73.33%
Height: 6’ 3”
Stance: Orthodox
Torres
Age: 32
Bouts: 21
Rounds: 124
Wins: 17
Losses: 3
Draws: 1
KO Wins: 5
KOs: 23.81%
Height: 6’ 0”
Stance: Orthodox
Weights
Hamzah Sheeraz: 11 stone 5 lbs 4oz
Francisco Torres: 11 stone 5 lbs 4oz
Running Order
#1 Sean Noakes vs MJ Hall
4×3 Welterweight contest
#2 Sonny Ali vs Chris Adaway
6×3 Super Lightweight contest
#3 Khalid Ali vs Des Newton
6×3 Welterweight contest
#4 Umar Khan vs Engel Gomez
6×3 Featherweight contest
#5 Masood Abdulah vs Tinko Banabakov
8×3 Super Featherweight contest
#6 Karol Itauma vs Michal Gazdik
6×3 Light Heavyweight contest
#7 Pierce O'Leary vs Robin Zamora
8×3 Super Lightweight contest
#8 Ryan Garner vs Christian Lopez Flores
8×3 Featherweight contest
#9 Dennis McCann vs James Beech Jr.
10×3 WBC International Silver Featherweight Title
#10 Nick Ball vs Nathanael Kakololo
12×3 WBC Silver Featherweight Title
#11 Lennox Clarke vs Mark Heffron
12×3 British & Commonwealth Super Middleweight Titles
#12 Hamzah Sheeraz vs Francisco Emanuel Torres
12×3 WBC Silver Middleweight Title
