Kelvin hall preview-Burns/Gomez and Anderson/King

Kelvin Hall Preview
On Friday night Manchester based Irishman Michael Gomez looks to extend his winning streak against Scottish fighters, by taking on Coatbridge’s Ricky Burns. Having previously disposed of Alex Arthur and Craig Docherty, Gomez is no stranger to Scottish fight fans.

On the line is Burns Commonwealth title belt, having previously defended it twice against African opponents. This fight does represent a slight step up in class for Burns against fighter who famously had Amir Khan on the ground with attacks to the body, as opposed to Khan’s much discussed glass chin.

Going into this fight Gomez has had 3 successive victories since the loss to Khan. While the victories have been won, it is relevant to note that these fights have only been scheduled for 6 rounds. This fact is something I think will make a difference on Friday night, as Burns is the younger, fresher fighter of the two; but I think Gomez is just as hungry as Burns.

While the undercard has seen many changes the main supporting bout is a Celtic title fight. The fight is at super middleweight and is between Edinburgh’s Kenny Anderson and Welshman Nathan King. With King having more experience and more fights at this level it would be hard to write him off.

King, haven taking the fight after Stevie McGuire pulled out, will be looking to use the experience over former commonwealth gold medallist Anderson. Anderson has never fought at this level but has an impressive 7 KO’s from 9 fights.

I think this fight is an intriguing one, while King is beatable; Anderson is certainly stepping up in taking this match up. Anderson will be tested in this fight and will give him a good stern test however I do think he will come through and take the victory on points or late KO

Also appearing on the undercard is former British Featherweight champion Andy Morris, who is making his debut at lightweight. Kris Hughes looks to build on his previous wins by taking on fetter cairns James Ancliffe and the exotically named Santino Caruana makes his debut.