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Matchroom announce Wingstop as partner sponsor for Saunders vs. Murray

December 3 2020

Matchroom Boxing are delighted to announce Wingstop as a partner sponsor for Billy Joe Saunders’ all-British WBO Super-Middleweight World Title defence against Martin Murray tomorrow night at The SSE Arena, Wembley, shown live on Sky Sports and DAZN.

The award-winning chicken wing experts were present for rising Welterweight star Conor Benn’s ten-round masterclass against Sebastian Formella last month, serving up tasty chicken wings and fries as a post fight treat to fighters on the card, as well as Matchroom head honcho Eddie Hearn!

Undefeated two-weight World Champion Saunders tops another huge night of action in London, Belfast’s James Tennyson (27-3, 23 KOs) meets Canada’s Josh O’Reilly (16-0, 6 KOs) in an Eliminator for the WBA Lightweight World Title, Watford Bantamweight Shannon Courtenay (5-1, 2 KOs) looks to return to winning ways against Poland’s Dorota Nurek (6-1, 1 KO), Derby’s Zach Parker (19-0, 13 KOs) takes on Spain’s Cesar Nunez (17-2-1, 9 KOs) for the WBO International Super-Middleweight Title, New Malden Super-Middleweight talent Lerrone Richards (13-0, 3 KOs) makes his Matchroom debut against Finland’s Timo Laine (28-14, 12 KOs), Southampton’s Lewis Edmondson (3-0) clashes with Manchester’s John Telford (11-2-1, 2 KOs) over six rounds at Super-Middleweight and exciting Sheffield Featherweight Donte Dixon (4-0, 3 KOs) meets Welshman Angelo Dragone (5-1) over six rounds.

Tom Grogan, Co-founder of Wingstop UK, said: “This will be Wingstop UK’s first foray into sport and we are thrilled to have agreed this partnership with Matchroom Boxing. Over the past few years Eddie and his team have supercharged the exposure of UK boxing and we cannot think of a more fitting partner to activate our exposure to sports.

“Looking into 2021 we want to build on our relationship together and hope to see many more opportunities to collaborate and serve the country flavour!”