Hastings Bwalya returns to the ring on Saturday, June 19 when he takes on American Matt Ellis in a non-title welterweight fight at the Niagara Falls Conference Centre in Niagara Falls.
The fight will be one of six undercard fights to heavyweight Hasim Rahman’s non-title 10-round clash against fellow American Shannon Miller.
This will be 24-year-old Bwalya’s fourth professional fight and second of the year after his unanimous points decision over American Ashantie Hendrickson in their six-round fight on May 21 in New York City.
Bwalya, against Ellis, will be looking to do much better than his last fight after being taken to the distance by Hendricks in New York last month with that win on the east coast coming after two knockout decisions in th Zambian boxers favor last year.
Meanwhile, 27-year-old Ellis faces Bwalya in his third professional fight that come on the back of one win in October 2009 after earlier losing his debut fight in May last year against the unbeaten Andre Gorges.
Good luck ‘Sting’ I’m rooting for you.
A walya, not too fast. Is it not just over a month when you had another professional fight?, i think take it slowly.
I think it’s good the kid is being kept busy. Going the distance at this stage of his career is not really a bad thing, it will give him more ring experience, improve his timing and help his trainers to identify any mistakes which he could work on. The important thing is not to take too much punishment and bulk in between fights.
It’s good the kid is being brought up steadily and in no time with good match making, he just might carve up a name for himslef. Good luck kid.