HAVING already gained Commonwealth and European titles Sam Noakes now needs to make the following step in his profession.
The 27-year-old defends his EBU Light-weight belt towards Gianluca Ceglia tomorrow evening (Friday, September 6) at York Corridor. Noakes captured his second main honour when he beat Yvan Mendy in April and by the top of 2024 Noakes needs to problem for a world title, particularly the WBO model presently held by Denys Berinchyk.
“That’s the struggle I would like. I might like to have that struggle on the finish of the 12 months,” Noakes advised Queensberry’s Dev Sahni.
Berinchyk is a former European champion having gained the belt towards Mendy in December 2022 on the Tyson Fury-Derek Chisora 3 undercard at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Ukrainian gained comfortably sufficient on the playing cards (117-112, 116-112 twice) earlier than vacating the title. Mendy dropped a far wider rating to Noakes (120-108 on all three playing cards) and the Maidstone boxer is conscious he did a greater job.
“Me getting the shutout win and him shedding a number of rounds – he solely gained by three or 4 didn’t he? I feel that struggle makes essentially the most sense and if that struggle acquired supplied to me I’d seize it with each palms for a world title doubtless.”
Berinchyk captured his first world title by inflicting a little bit of an upset when he beat Mexican Emanuel Navarrete on factors in Might. Noakes is presently ranked fifth with the WBO however extra importantly he and Berinchyk each ply their commerce below the Queensberry Promotions banner giving the struggle a sensible likelihood of occurring.
