Young Mutley will take out the trash

The Midlands already has one famous boxing binman - but now the Black Country has one of it's very own in West Bromwich's former British champion Young Mutley.

The 34-year-old, who held the Lonsdale belt at welterweight in 2006, got a job on the bins two months ago with Birmingham City Council.

It was a welcome regular income after spending nearly a year out of boxing, in the meantime becoming a father for the first time to five-month-old son Reon with wife Jade.

Leicester's former European champion Rendall Munroe, a good friend and sparring partner of Mutley's, first made the binman famous in the boxing world, with his throes of supporters donning the same high visibility vests whenever they went to watch him fight.

And Mutley - real name Lee Woodley - is also hoping to take out the trash when he returns to the ring later this year, vowing nothing will to go to waste in what is left of his career.

He said: "I need to pay the bills and I have always wanted to do a bin job, because I can still train while I am doing it and it's keep you fit non-stop.

"I feel better in myself because I have got myself in a routine now, I have never had a routine before.

"It's made me more determined and my hunger is back now, having to do something again day-to-day."

In the ring, the Black Country boxer is hoping to get the first shot at new British welterweight champion Craig Watson as a voluntary defence, after turning down a fight with Birmingham's Frankie Gavin at a week's notice last month.

Mutley said: "I am just going to train all year and whatever fight comes up I am going to take it.

"I haven't had any real wars in the ring and I still feel good and fresh. I have got plenty left in me."