Paul Butler & Stuart Hall
Paul Butler & Stuart Hall

Paul Butler-Stuart Hall rematch for world title opportunity


Paul Butler is to face Stuart Hall in a rematch and eliminator for the WBA bantamweight title on September 30 after signing for Matchroom.

The 28-year-old, who recently left Frank Warren, meets Hall at Liverpool's Echo Arena having already defeated him to win the IBF title in 2014.

Fellow Briton Jamie McDonnell is the WBA champion awaiting the winner, and Butler said: "I am on the biggest platform for boxing now (Sky Sports) and I'm straight into the deep end in a massive fight with Stuart.

"I can win in better fashion this time and end his career. The team around me is better now, I'm improving every day with (new trainer) Joe Gallagher and I don't see that improvement in Stuart."

Hall has lost two further fights since his defeat by Butler, which represented the third of his career, while in Belfast's Ryan Burnett Britain and Matchroom has another of the bantamweight world champions.

"I'm over the moon to get the fight," the 37-year-old said. "I thought I beat (Lee) Haskins (in last September's points defeat) and I should be champ, but that's boxing."(Mine and Butler's) first fight I thought I won but he took the title, so now it's my chance for revenge. 

This is the final push for me, if I lose this I think that my career is over, so that pressure on me should make for a great fight." 

On the undercard, Liverpool's Rocky Fielding defends his British super-middleweight title for the first time against Scotsman David Brophy, who puts up the Commonwealth strap he won in fine fashion in Australia back in March.

Controversial Hackney man Ohara Davies looks to get back to winning ways as he challenges Tom Farrell for the unbeaten local favourite’s WBA international super-lightweight belt.

Birkenhead’s Sean ‘Masher’ Dodd defends his Commonwealth and WBC international lightweight titles against former Team GB captain and Liverpudlian Tom Stalker.

Two more Team GB Olympians Anthony Fowler and Natasha Jonas fight on home turf for the first time in their respective second fights in the paid ranks, and there’s also action for Craig Glover.  

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