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Tickets are still available for Lee Haskin’s World Title fight at the Action Indoor Sports Arena in Whitchurch, Bristol, England on June 13.
Bristol’s Haskins will get his long overdue shot at the world bantamweight championship when he boxes for the vacant IBF Interim Title against Japan’s Ryosuke Iwasa.
Iwasa is a 25-year-old southpaw from Chiba, Japan with a professional record of 19-1 (12 KOs). Iwasa was formerly the Japanese bantamweight champion and is currently ranked at number three in the world according to the IBF.
Haskins, meanwhile, is a popular 31-year-old Bristolian boasting a professional record of 31-3 (13 KOs). Sharp, unpredictable and dangerous, Haskins is also in a rich vein of form, having won each of his last five fights, three inside schedule, and last time out lifted the European bantamweight title with a dominant eighth-round points win over Omar Lamiri.
He has held the British title at both super-flyweight and bantamweight and is rated at number four by the IBF.
This shot at a world title means more to Haskins than most, of course, given the fact he’s had to watch the likes of Jamie McDonnell and Stuart Hall, two men he has previously defeated, go on to claim world championships of their own in the last two years.
“It’s amazing to finally land this world title shot,” he said. “It means so much to me that the fight is going to be in Bristol with a home crowd and I hope that the Bristol public turn out in force to support me!”
“I know this is going to be a tough fight, but I’ve never lost in Bristol and, with that massive West Country support behind me, we can make history on June 13.”
Tickets priced at £35, £75 and £100 are available from Sanigar Events on 0117 949 6699.
