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Kell Brook will challenge reigning champion Devon Alexander for the IBF crown at the Masonic Theatre in Detroit on February 23

The announcement was made at a news conference in Sheffield, where he spoke to our sports correspondent John Shires.

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Huddersfield boxer Mohammed Faisal (aka Fes Batista) told us how his experience with racism and bullying encouraged his boxing ambitions. Last year he was invited to train at the Mayweather Boxing Gymn in Las Vegas, home of the legendary eight time world champion Floyd Mayweather Junior.

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Hull will stage the biggest boxing night the city's seen for decades tomorrow night. Olympic gold medallist James De Gale is top of the bill. And Hull's very own gold medallist Luke Campbell will be taking a keen interest in the event, as Chris Dawkes reports.

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Tonight Sheffield welterweight Kell Brook can take another significant step towards a world title.

He takes on the dangerous Argentinian Hector Saldivia at the Motorpoint Arena, in a final eliminator for the IBF crown.

Although he's still unbeaten, there were a few problems for Kell in his last fight against Carson Jones, but when John Shires went to watch him sparring at Brendan Ingle's gym recently, he told him everything's sorted now.

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A boxing gym in Hull says it's been inundated with requests from youngsters wishing to join, following the Olympic success of Luke Campbell.

Since he won gold at the London Olympics, admissions to the City of Hull amateur boxing club have doubled. They are receiving, on average, twelve calls every day - and have also set up a ladies box-fit class after a surge in interest from girls and women.

For the youngsters there, Luke Campbell is their hero.

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Gold medal-winning boxer Nicola Adams will make a public appearance in Leeds today. She will be at the Merrion Centre from 12pm - 1pm, before heading to Kirkstall Abbey to see thousands of young people at a summer roadshow, which is closed to the public.

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