Burns keen to face Mitchell on home soil

Published on Friday 20 January 2012 02:29

Ricky Burns has targeted Kevin Mitchell for a summertime all-British battle – and he wants it to be in Scotland.

The interim WBO lightweight champion will face Namibia’s Paulus Moses at the Braehead Arena on 10 March. Burns, from Coatbridge, is hoping fight fans pack out the venue on the outskirts of Glasgow to encourage promoter Frank Warren to bring Essex boy Mitchell north of the Border for what would be a classic Scotland versus England encounter.

Mitchell’s only defeat in 33 fights to date was to Michael Katsidis at Upton Park, London, in May 2010, whom Burns beat at Wembley in November last year to take the title from the Australian. Burns, 28, speaking at the Braehead Arena yesterday, said: “Obviously I have to get past Paulus Moses first or that [Mitchell] fight is not going to happen. I know Kevin is fighting in February and as long as the two of us come through then we can sit down and talk about it.

“Both of us are promoted by Frank Warren so it is an easy fight for us to make. I would say the two of us are the best lightweights in Britain just now so it is a fight that I would really want.”

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