West Bromwich's Wayne Downing will return to the ring after an eight month retirement to face Dudley's Martin Gordon for the vacant British Masters title at the Holiday Inn in Birmingham at the end of the month. Downing retired in May to concentrate on his corner work with the Wednesbury gym but will be back in the ring aiming to pick up a belt against an opponent he beat in 2007.
The show will be Wednesbury based First Team's first show of the year and will be hosted by guest speaker and ring legend John Conteh. The four fight dinner show will also feature Stourbridge's Sam Horton who will be aiming to bounce back from his recent British title eliminator defeat by beating Welshman Jamie Ambler which will be for an International Masters title. Filling the rest of the card will be Dudley's Chris Male and Coventry's ex English champion Steve Bendall.
