Kevin Lear Eyes Return To Ring Against Gomez And Arthur

West Ham's Kevin Lear is hoping to be back in the ring next month after an absence of almost a year and a half through injury. And the former WBU Super Featherweight title holder is looking towards domestic battles with Michael Gomez and Alex Arthur in 2005 to reclaim his position as number one Super Featherweight in the UK.

26 year old Lear is unbeaten in 14 fights, with his most impressive form coming in 2002 when he stopped both Gomez and Bulgarian Kirkor Kirkorov in title fights. But successive shoulder injuries prevented him from making further progress or defending his WBU title and he was stripped of the belt the following year.

Britain's Super Featherweight division is now brimming with possible matches, with our own Craig Docherty and Willie Limond also in the mix alongside WBF champion Carl Johanneson from Leeds who ended 2004 on the wrong end of a first round KO courtesy of Leva Kirakosyan - the Russian who Gomez stopped in six just two months before.

Of the assortment of belts currently held by the above, it is the vacant British Featherweight title that carries most kudos in world boxing circles and it will be contested between Craig Docherty and Alex Arthur in March. The winner of that will no doubt have a flurry of domestic challengers come the summer of 2005 with Londoner Lear hoping to be at the front of the queue.

And yet another Scottish Super Featherweight prospect will be in action at Braehead at the end of the month. The Daily Record said yesterday that Ricky Burns from Coatbridge has been added to the undercard.

Posted by scottish-boxing at January 13, 2005 08:18 AM