On a card billed as ‘Repeat or Revenge’; Jon Kays insists it will be the latter, when he faces Gary Sykes for the vacant British super-featherweight crown at the Dewsbury Leisure Centre on May 24.
Beaten on points by Sykes in a 2013 English title tussle, Ashton under Lyne’s Kays believes he is a better fighter for the experience and will prove it in Sykes’ backyard.
“I learnt massively from that first fight with Gary,”explained Jon, who has since become English champ after beating Grimsby’s Kevin Hooper in October last year. “I’d fought a championship before [Kays was stopped by Liam Walsh in the tenth round of their 2011 Commonwealth title fight] but I was a bit wary of setting the pace for the 10 rounds. But I got through it fine in the end.
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Beaten on points by Sykes in a 2013 English title tussle, Ashton under Lyne’s Kays believes he is a better fighter for the experience and will prove it in Sykes’ backyard.
“I learnt massively from that first fight with Gary,”explained Jon, who has since become English champ after beating Grimsby’s Kevin Hooper in October last year. “I’d fought a championship before [Kays was stopped by Liam Walsh in the tenth round of their 2011 Commonwealth title fight] but I was a bit wary of setting the pace for the 10 rounds. But I got through it fine in the end.
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