Coyle and Mathews first battled for the Commonwealth title at Craven Park, Hull, in 2013. Mathews won in the 10th round.<\/p>\n
Coyle said: “Who knows what’s going to happen? In round 10, I got knocked out, so let’s just see if I can turn back the clock.<\/p>\n
“We’re two old pros that are friends and we’re going to go at it and try and create some memories.” <\/p>\n
Discussing his comeback, Coyle also reflected on the loss of his father Chris who died in 2022. He had been a “huge part” of his career. <\/p>\n
“It will be the first fight my dad’s not seen,” said Coyle. <\/p>\n
“It’s sad, but I can’t not do things just because he’s not around anymore. He isn’t coming back and I’ve had to learn to come to terms with that.<\/p>\n
“I’ve really struggled with him not being around, he was my best friend. <\/p>\n
“For the next 12 weeks, it will give me something to focus on, something to chase, and something to occupy my mind. If I say I’m doing something, I always do it.”<\/p>\n
Coyle added: “Boxing fans will be the winners in this fight as well as the clubs we’re raising money for.” <\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coyle and Mathews first battled for the Commonwealth title at Craven Park, Hull, in 2013. Mathews won in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}