BELFAST LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT TYRONE McKenna has secured a career-biggest fight on the undercard of Ryan Burnett’s world title unification in Belfast.
The ‘Mighty Celt’ (14-0-1, 6KOs) will trade leather with Hull’s Tommy Coyle (23-4, 11KOs) at the SSE Arena in his hometown on 21 October having called out every attainable name under the sun for the bones of a year.
Coyle will present a sternest test to date for the six-foot-one southpaw from Lenadoon, and holds a victory over former WBO interim world champion Michael Katsidis amongst high-profile defeats to Olympic gold medalist Luke Campbell and former interim WBA champ Derry Matthews.
McKenna-Coyle will be one of the televised bouts during Sky Sports’ broadcast of Burnett-Zhakiyanov – the first world title unification ever to take place on Irish soil.
McKenna and Coyle previously sparred in the lead-up to the latter’s defeat to Campbell. The 27-year-old Antrim fighter will still headline the Ginley Promotions bill at Belfast’s Devenish Complex on September 16th.
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