Robert McCracken to defend Commonwealth middleweight title

Boxing

Birmingham's Robert McCracken, who won the vacant Commonwealth middleweight title by beating Canada's Fitzgerald Bruney last month, is to make his first defence against Worcester's Paul Busby at the Aston Villa Leisure Centre on 31 January. Telford's European middleweight champion, Richie Woodhall, will make a defence of his title on the same bill