2020 Olympic Video games bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall (4-0) is stepping as much as face the battle-hardened Vanessa Bradford who has shared the ring with world champions Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner when she returns to the ring at BOXXER: PATHS COLLIDE on Saturday, October twenty first at The O2 London, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
‘Vicious’ Vanessa Bradford (7-4-2) – the reigning Canadian featherweight champion – took Mayer the gap in a 2018 North American championship bout and did the identical with Baumgardner in 2021 simply three months earlier than Baumgardner stopped Terri Harper to change into the brand new IBO and WBC world super-featherweight champion.
“Vanessa Bradford has been in with a number of the greatest and she or he’s very skilled within the professional ranks, so I’m anticipating battle and a critical take a look at. I’m assured I’ll get the win and proceed to push my profession ahead,” mentioned Artingstall.
“I’m trying ahead to getting again out on the twenty first October, one other nice venue to field at with a cracking headliner between Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez.”
Ben Shalom, BOXXER CEO, mentioned, “We had been extremely proud to have Karriss Artingstall signal with us for her skilled profession within the wake of her Olympic success. She’s one of many world’s prime skills at her weight and she or he’s proven that all through her novice profession. Now we will’t wait to see her skilled profession take off. Vanessa Bradford is a top quality take a look at and may make for an ideal battle.”
Hailing from Macclesfield and previously serving as a gunner within the Royal Horse Artillery, Artingstall achieved Olympic glory within the extremely aggressive girls’s featherweight division, clinching bronze with a victory over Skye Nicolson.
With 4 victories from her 4 skilled outings, the Rob McCracken-trained Artingstall has made a stable begin to her skilled profession and goes in quest of a fifth successive victory later this month.
Headlined by mates turned rivals Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez, BOXXER: PATHS COLLIDE takes place Saturday, October twenty first at The O2 London and airs dwell and solely within the UK and Eire on Sky Sports activities.
