The Mount for Marco Antonio Barrera

Boxing great Marco Antonio Barrera is in Wolverhampton for a sportsman's dinner at the start of next month.

The Mount Hotel, in Tettenhall Wood, will play host to the former WBC, WBO and IBF world champion on Saturday March 3.

Just 50 tickets will be on sale for the event - on a first come, first serve basis - to spend an evening with the Mexican ring legend.

Now 37, Barrera first made his name among British boxing fans as the only man to beat Prince Naseem Ahmed, unaminously on points in 2001.

Ahmed hung up his gloves soon after that defeat, while Barrera went on to prove himself as one of the world's pound-for-pound best.

The following year saw him exact revenge in the fight of the year with fellow boxing superstar, Erik Morales, in the second of their three-bout trilogy.

Barrera was already established as a long-standing world champion during his two-year reign with the WBO belt at super bantam, from 1998.

'The Baby-Faced Assassin' lost his crown to Morales in their first fight but won bouts two and three, taking the WBC super feather title in 2004.

Barrera had already been in once with Manny Pacquiao, at that point, and would face off again with 'Pac Man' in 2007, but twice lost.

The equally world-class Juan Manuel Marquez took his WBC title in his fourth defence the year earlier that year, before Barrera came to England.

Facing Amir Khan in Manchester was perhaps the last big fight, to date, of the veteran's career and a controversial cut saw Khan win the bout in five.

Barrera's return to England comes in the Black Country and his speech on the night will come with former WBC world champion John H Stracey.

Tickets are £100 but come with a three-course meal and the chance of a signed photograph with the great man, for an additional £10.

For more information, call event organiser Ken Purchase on 07976 842 383.