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Danny Dignum vs. Grant Dennis Middleweight Battle &
Return Of Lee McGregor This Friday
WBO European middleweight champion Danny Dignum will make
the third defense of his belt in the 10-round main event
against Grant Dennis this Friday, Feb. 11, at London’s York
Hall.
Dignum-Dennis headlines a loaded fight card that will stream
live and exclusively on ESPN+ at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT.
European bantamweight champion “Lightning” Lee McGregor will
fight Diego Alberto Ruiz in the 10-round junior
featherweight co-feature.
Dignum (13-0-1, 7 KOs) won the vacant WBO European
middleweight belt in November 2019 with a fifth-round TKO
over Conrad Cummings and defended it less than four months
later with a ninth-round stoppage against Alfredo Meli. He
hopes to get back on the winning track following last
April’s draw versus Russian veteran Andrey Sirotkin. Dennis
(17-3, 3 KOs), from Chatham, England, has won a pair of
fights since an October 2020 TKO loss to Sirotkin.
The 25-year-old McGregor (11-0, 9 KOs) had a pair of
significant wins in 2021, knocking out Karim Guerfi in one
round to win the European title and then defending it with
an off-the-canvas stoppage victory over Vincent Legrand.
Argentina native Ruiz (23-4, 12 KOs) is best known for his
ninth-round knockout defeat to Michael Conlan in front of a
sold-out Belfast crowd in August 2019. He is 2-1 since the
Conlan fight.
In other undercard action on ESPN+:
Super middleweight Joe Giles (1-0) will take on 148-fight
journeyman legend Lewis van Poetsch in a four-rounder.
Junior middleweight Bilal Fawaz will make his professional
debut in a four-rounder against Vladimir Fleischhauer
(1-12), who has only been stopped once as a pro.
Southpaw junior middleweight prospect Paul Ryan (2-0, 1 KO),
from Dublin, Ireland, will step up against CJ Wood (3-1-2, 1
KO) in a six-rounder.
Rising bantamweight Nina Hughes (1-0), a seven-time British
amateur champion, will fight respected veteran Bec Connolly
in an eight-rounder.
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