By Elliot Foster
Lucas Biswana has been rewarded with a lucrative promotional deal after winning an ABA title.
The Liverpool fighter struck gold in this year’s senior elite tournament in the unpaid code and will now be given the chance to showcase his talents on the biggest of stages.
Biswana, who was a national amateur champion with Gemini ABC in his home city before joining the Everton Red Triangle gym, will be trained and managed by the club’s head coach Paul Stevenson.
And he is set to be thrust into the spotlight early on in his paid career after signing terms with Frank Warren and the Hall of Fame promoter’s Queensberry company which will see his fights screened exclusively live on TNT Sports.
Welterweight will be the division in which the 20-year-old will compete as a professional and he will join a number of his ERT gym-mates under the guidance of both Stevenson and Warren.
Featherweight Nick Ball is the current WBA world champion, while heavyweight Boma Brown is also on the books of Warren.
Andrew Cain, the big-punching bantamweight, who clinched the British and Commonwealth titles in the 118-pound division earlier this month with a fifth-round stoppage win over outgoing champion Ashley Lane, is another Warren fighter, as is Bradley Strand.
Strand was most recently in action earlier this year as he unsuccessfully challenged Dennis McCann for the Commonwealth and WBO Inter-Continental belts along with the vacant British super-bantamweight crown.
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, though, whose relative Louie Szeto is also closing in on a move to the pro ranks, the news of him signing a deal with Warren will lead to a debut, hopefully before the end of the year, with the promoter expected to come back to the banks of the River Mersey in a couple of months’ time, having not been to the city of Liverpool since June 2016 when Liam Smith dismantled Montenegrin challenger Predrag Radošević inside two rounds to retain the WBO super-welterweight crown he held at the time.