Ursu has also put his Commonwealth Gold strap on the line for the contest at Bethnal GreenPlymouth’s Constantin Ursu

Plymouth fighter Constantin Ursu will be taking nothing for granted when he comes up against Ryan Amos for the WBO European welterweight title at London’s York Hall on Sunday (Nov 30), according to his trainer.

Ursu has also put his Commonwealth Gold strap on the line for the contest at Bethnal Green, which is the headline clash on Top Tier’s Resurgence show – and also streamed live on DAZN.

But in the build-up to the clash, the British Boxing Board of Control put out a call for purse bids for Ursu’s clash against Conah Walker for the British title.

That clash has been mandated to take place before the end of March next year, and will be unaffected by this weekend’s outcome.

But Ursu’s trainer Marlee Dann said that his protege will be looking no further than his opponent this weekend.

He told The Herald: “Constantin isn’t looking past Ryan Amos – he knows full well that Ryan is a capable fighter and Constantin is an extremely professional boxer, he lives his life according to what it is to be a professional.

“In my view Constantin’s mindset and dedication to the sport will show through in his performance and Constantin’s maturity certainly over the last couple of years has been incredible.

“Either myself or the team, we’re not looking past Ryan in any way shape or form.”

Dann said winning the WBO European title would be a unprecedented achievement for not just Ursu but the region.

“It’s a fantastic step defending the Commonwealth Gold and going for a European title which has never been done in Devon and Cornwall’s history,” he said.

“He [Ursu] has been fantastic and he’s had the best camp that I think we’ve ever had – he’s had great sparring, it’s been very good on all aspects really.”

For Amos, it is the opportunity to inflict a first defeat on the ‘Moldovan Monster’ – as Ursu has been dubbed – as well as securing a European title.

Dann acknowledge that the Northampton man comes into the clash with only two defeats in a 20-fight professional career, and cannot be underestimated.

Dann said: “Ryan [Amos] has boxed most of his career at middleweight and super welter – on his whole record he’s been very solid.

“He’s got a great style as a professional and I think he comes from the beginning to the final bell, and is tight and compact, and applies the pressure pretty well.

“We’ve just been drafting in sparring partners for Ryan and we’ve done nothing majorly different to what we normally do, but we’ve changed the sparring partners for who Ryan is.”

With Ursu featuring heavily on the promotional material for DAZN’s weekend streaming, Dann said it is another opportunity to raise his public profile.

“People in the sport know who Constantin is,” he said. “So it’s just down to the public to catch on and the promoter to take him to the next level.

“But he is a well known figure in boxing now which is good.”

Dann also has recently-acquired Olympian Tiago Muxanga on the undercard at York Hall, with a clash against Southampton scrapper Harley Collison.

Collison has been drafted in after Muxanga’s previously arranged opponent ran into issues with his visa.

But the Southampton-based fighter is known for not taking a backward step and will be a decent foil for Mozambique-raised Muxanga, now also training under Dann in Honicknowle’s Intense ABC gym.

Dann said: “We had an opponent with a great record, but they’ve had visa issues getting him over, he was from Indonesia and his record had about 30-35 wins.

“But we had issues with a visa and Johnny [Clark] said ‘do we get in a journeyman?’ and I said ‘I don’t think we need that’ and he said he agreed.

“He’s come from the Olympics, clearly a very capable fighter, what is the need in taking a backward step and going to a journeyman?”

He continued: “If you look at Collison’s record it is quite interesting – he fought a guy called Caoimhin Agyarko from Ireland, who is 18-0 and is signed to Matchroom and Queensberry is a very capable man.

“They actually boxed on the undercard of Constantin’s fight against Eithan James so I have watched Harley up close and I can assure you that he comes to win.

“He’s got a fight in him and he’s proud, and some of the opponents he’s had, they are decent.

“For us Collison is a very capable fighter and most of his fights recently have been a bit heavier – he’s been taking fights at heavier weight categories, but he is a 154lb fighter and it will be at 154lb on Sunday, so for us it’s a very simple thing.

“He’s been in with big strong guys, and he’s never been stopped, he’s been put down once or twice but he’s always got back up and come back fighting.

“But Tiago is young, and hungry, and mixing it with some decent people.”