Boxing

Scott Welch is to defend his World Boxing Organisation Inter-Continental heavyweight title at Brighton's Metropole Hotel, on 26 January. His opponent is yet to be announced.

Henry Wharton has a change of opponent for his defence of the European super-middleweight title in Halifax on 13 January. Frederic Seillier, of France, is injured and is replaced by a former champion, Vincenzo Nardiello, who lost a WBC world title challenge to Nigel Benn in London last summer.