'Model' pro Quinton Hillocks is back

Brierley Hill's Quinton Hillocks today vowed to prove he's a model professional when he comes back to boxing after nearly three years out of the ring.

Hillocks has been added to the bill at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Friday September 28 and hopes to style and profile like he's never been away.

The Florida-born Black Country fighter, who turned 28 on Thursday, works as a male model and won't want punches ruining his best features.

The flamboyant super middleweight was an amateur with Lions ABC in Dudley before turning pro in 2009, clocking up three wins in five months.

A razor-thin British Masters title loss on points to Eddie McIntosh came in October but he was back in the ring again two weeks later.

Jamie Ambler halted a drained Hillocks in the fifth round and he vanished afterwards, but has now returned with his mind set on putting it right.

Hillocks said: "I never really meant to be out of the game for this long and I didn't plan to quit, I was always going to come back sooner or later.

"This wasn't meant to be a comeback fight, I only wanted a few months break but months seem to have turned into years.

"By this time next year, I want to have another six fights under my belt, that's what it will take to get me back to where I was.

"It probably sounds mad hearing it from me, but I know the likes of George Groves in my weight class are not that special.

"I am still a student of the game, I am always learning and my brain is like a sponge for boxing, I take tricks and use them myself.

"There's time to go far in this sport, not plenty of time, but time as I long as I stay active."

Hillocks is back after following former Lions amateur club-mates Ricky Summers and Andrew Robinson to Shaun Cooper's gym in Brierley Hill.

Tipton's Summers is also on the Civic bill after turning pro this year and is Hillocks' best friend in boxing, plus a regular sparring partner.

Ray 'Razza' Campbell, Lindon Scarlett and Micky Warbey are on Cooper's coaching team and Hillocks wants to see the difference in the ring

He said: "I need my trainers to push me and keep me going, as it's no secret that I am not always the most motivated in the gym.

"Fitness cost me the Ambler fight, I took it at short notice and, by the fifth round, I just wanted to get out of there and pick up my money.

"I was nowhere near fight mode, there's no way I will ever do that again because I shouldn't be losing to people like that on my worse day.

"I would have given McIntosh about three rounds of our fight, I dropped him in the last round and feel I did more than enough to win.

"There's no knockouts on my record, as yet, but I know I can punch, I have let people hold on in the past and that won't happen anymore."

For more information and tickets to the Civic show, call the box office on 0870 320 7000