Highly-regarded youngster Royston Barney-Smith gets a step-up fight when he travels to Ireland to face veteran Reece Bellotti.
Barney-Smith, from Southampton, England, is trained by Ben Davison and is now 16-0 (8 KOs). The southpaw became the first man to stop Conor McIntosh in his last fight, in April. McIntosh was halted in two rounds.
Barney-Smith will face Bellotti at the 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday, August 1, on the bill headlined by Pierce O’Leary’s bout against Portsmouth’s Mark Chamberlain.
Bellotti is 20-7 (15 KOs) and the Watford man is coming off consecutive losses to Ryan Garner, who stopped him in 12 rounds, and Josh Padley who won a 10-round decision over him in Bellotti’s last fight in October.
Bellotti, 35, is a former British and Commonwealth champion.