The undefeated Mark Chamberlain, a 25-year-old lightweight from Portsmouth, won plenty of fans when he stopped Joshua Wahab in explosive fashion in the first round of their fight on the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undercard in May.
That victory saw Chamberlain progress further in an incredibly stacked division, with the 16-0 contender ranked in the top five of both the WBC and IBF’s lightweight rankings, as well as eighth in the WBO table.
“You don’t really get any bigger than fighting at Wembley Stadium,” Chamberlain told BBC Sport ahead of today’s card. “Josh Padley is just another man in front of me that is going to get dealt with on the night, I truly believe I can get to the very top of this sport.”
But Padley, himself undefeated with a 14-0 record, will be a tricky opponent, especially as the 28-year-old feels he is one victory away from quitting his day job and going full-time. “I’d love to be able to commit to boxing full-time,” he told the British radio station Talksport. “The bigger the fight the more you need to put into the camps. And that is this one for instance.”
