WBU super-featherweight champion Michael Gomez will be the guest of honour at Macclesfield Boys Boxing Club's debut amateur boxing show at the Wilmslow Leisure Centre on Friday.

The club are hoping to return to the glory days of the 1920s and 1930s when Macclesfield was the undisputed hot-bed of boxing in Cheshire with fights staged in pubs, dance halls, Prestbury Road ice ring and even the Moss Rose.

Joe Mulrooney's gym raised many of the finest boxers to come out of Macclesfield up until the 1950s, including Tiny Bostock, Ernie Foden and, probably the best boxer ever to come out of the town, Joe Alban Mulrooney.

But is will be the best of the town's young talent stepping into the ring on Friday. Promising boxers Liam Hanrahan and Lee Sharpe will both be fighting on the bill.

Also watching the stars of tomorrow will be Macclesfield's ABC president Steve Bell, a former double ABA featherweight champion and Commonwealth Games team captain.

Tickets cost £7 and the first bout is at 8.30pm. and for more details contact Jeremy on: 07891 895113.