Injury forces Callum to miss Excelsior bill

Callum Singh with trainer Tom Powell…ruled out by ankle injury

CALLUM Singh’s fight at Cannock’s Excelsior Sporting Club this month is off after he suffered an ankle injury in the build-up.

“He didn’t even do it in the gym,” said Brendan Norman, boss of the Bulkington gym where Singh trains.

The Coventry 23-year-old had hoped to ease back on promoter Scott Murray’s plush September 25 dinner show after suffering his first loss.

In June, Callum rolled the dice, travelled to Glasgow and faced the city’s Lennon Mulligan for the Commonwealth silver bantam crown. He was stopped in the sixth of a barnstormer, but proved his mettle that night. He won over the pro-Mulligan crowd.

Brendan hopes Singh, now 7-1, will appear at the Excelsior in November. And, surprisingly, he’s not ruled out the possibility of Callum returning to the super-flyweight division, despite the tall boxer failing to make that weight for a Midlands title challenge last October.

The bout with champ Sean Bruce still went ahead, without the belt on the line, and Singh emerged a points winner.

Brendan wants him back against good opponents sooner rather than later, but admitted: “The Excelsior show was always about getting him back on green on BoxRec.

“He ticked a lot of boxes last time and 100 per cent he’s a better fighter for it. Callum’s not a brawler yet he had an absolute war, even Lennon looked shocked by the way he came out. To this day, we don’t know why he did it and I don’t think he knows why he did it.

“You’ve just got to accept boxers are a bit different to everyone else.”

And Brendan stressed: “Callum’s either a super-fly or bantam. He drank before the weigh-in with Lennon, and he did that in front of him. Not making super-fly last time (against Bruce) was a mistake. That’s all it was – a mistake.”