Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
‘The Shark’ is set to box for two big titles
RONNIE ‘The Shark’ Clark is set to box for two major titles in two months.
The Dundee super-feather 7goes up against unbeaten Sam Bowen for Bowen’s British title in Leicester on February 23.
Now Clark has also been earmarked to box Northern Irishman James Tennyson for the Commonwealth championship in Belfast on March 30.
Should he win the British crown, it is possible this title will be on the line against Tennyson as well as the Commonwealth belt.
Clark has been out of the ring since his superb IBF European title points win over previouslyunbeaten Zelfa Barrett in London on February 24 last year.
A succession of injuries have kept him out since and the Bowen bout has been put off once already due to an injury sustained by the Englishman.
Clark has been training hard in Belfast and Edinburgh and that will continue until his bout against Bowen.
The Dundonian helped Tennyson in his preparation for the Irishman’s failed attempt to wrest the IBF world title from Tevis Farmer in Boston, USA, in October and Tennyson is helping the Dundee man prepare for his bout against Bowen.
Belfast-based Mark Dunlop manages both Clark and Tennyson, and he said: “The two of them are friends and are only too willing to help each other out. Their bout should be a cracker.”