By Elliot Foster
Lucas Biswana was rewarded with a lucrative endorsement deal after winning the ABA title.
The Liverpool fighter won gold at this year’s pro boxing tournament in the non-paid division and will now get the chance to showcase his talent on the biggest stage.
Biswana, who was a Gemini ABC national amateur champion in his home country before joining Everton Red Triangle gym, will be coached and managed by club head coach Paul Stevenson.
And he’ll soon be thrust into the spotlight in his paid career after signing with Frank Warren and Hall of Famer Queensberry, where his fights will be televised exclusively on TNT Sports.
Welterweight will be the weight class the 20-year-old will compete in as a professional and he will join a number of teammates at the ERT gym under the guidance of both Stevenson and Warren.
Featherweight Nick Ball is the current WBA world champion, while heavyweight Boma Brown is also on Warren’s list.
Andrew Cain, the hard-punching bantamweight who won the British and Commonwealth 118-pound titles earlier this month with a fifth-round knockout of outgoing champion Ashley Lane, is another Warren fighter, as is Bradley Strand.
Strand last fought earlier this year when he unsuccessfully challenged Dennis McCann for the Commonwealth and WBO intercontinental titles along with the vacant British super bantamweight title.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – MARCH 16: Dennis McCann punches Brad Strand during the WBO Inter-Continental and British Super Bantamweight title fight between Dennis McCann and Brad Strand at Resorts World Arena on March 16, 2024 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by James Chance/Getty Images)
For Biswana, however, whose cousin Louie Szeto is also closing in on a professional move, news of his signing with Warren will lead to a debut, hopefully before the end of the year, with the promoter expected to return to the banks of the Mersey in a few months, having not been to Liverpool since June 2016 when Liam Smith defeated Montenegrin Predrag Radošević in two rounds to retain the WBO super welterweight title he held at the time.
