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Lennox Clarke tops the bill for his 12th fight

Halesowen's Lennox Clarke will get an opportunity to make it a dozen wins without reply at Walsall Town Hall next month.

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Clarke has raced to 11 victories - with four inside the distance - and will now top the next Town Hall bill on Saturday July 9,

writes Craig Birch.

The 24-year-old extended his record with a flawless four-round points success over Kiril Psonko on May 28 in Birmingham.

And the former unlicensed fighter got right back into camp for his next fight date, the 'Summer Scorcher' show promoted by Errol Johnson's Black Country Boxing.

A whopping nine bouts will support the main event with the likes of Rob Hunt, Lee Glover and Craig Morris all set for action.

Former Midlands welterweight champion Hunt, from Stafford, will both the 30th bout of his decade-long pro career on the card.

Tipton's Glover is rebuilding again, after losing two title opportunities in succession. He's now been beaten twice for English super feather honours and the Midlands crown at feather.

But the resilient 29-year-old is boxing on and now appears on a Town Hall offering for the first time since November 2014.

Morris, from Ludlow in Shropshire, lifted the British Challenge super welterweight belt in just his fifth paid contest six months ago.

The 24-year-old southpaw headlined the first pro boxing show in his hometown since the 1930s and now returns to the scene of three of his victories.

Elsewhere, unbeaten middleweight Tom Stokes is targeting his seventh win after dropping and outpointing Luke Allon at the same venue in March.

Stokes fights out of West Bromwich as does big heavyweight Matt Gordon and super featherweight Jack Summers, who both appear.

Gordon will be determined to go one better than his draw with Lukas Horak last time out, while Summers is looking to build on back-to-back wins since turning over.

Wolverhampton's Joshua Burke steps back through the ropes, for the first time since his spirited six-round defeat to the useful Courtney Richards in Plymouth.

The line-up is completed by Coventry's James Montgomery and Brummie duo Luke Walker and Jordan Clayton, with Montgomery at welter with the latter pair at super welter.

Tickets, priced at £30 and £60 ringside, are on sale now from the Town Hall Box Office on 0845 111 2900.

Sponsors Grosvenor Casino Walsall, Bentley Mill Way, will host the weigh-in and after-show party (over 18s). A number of free taxis from Yellow Taxis will at the Town Hall to go to the casino.

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