Nottingham boxer Ekow Essuman starts the final week countdown towards the biggest fight in his career so far this Saturday night as he takes on Frenchman Cedrick Peynaud in an IBF European Welterweight Title bout live on TV.

Unbeaten Essuman aged 31 has 13 wins from 13 pro fights and takes on a fighter who has had a mixed career of 7 losses 8 wins and 3 draws all be it with a pro-kickboxing background.

The fight will be shown live on BT Sports and will be housed behind closed doors in safe surroundings at the BT Sport Studio on the undercard of Anthony Yarde verses Dec Spelman with ‘Kid Dynamite’ Mark Heffron fighting Denzel Bentley for the IBF European Middleweight title and Nathan Gorman verses Richard Lartey on the same bill.

Ekow ‘The Engine’ is currently the English Welterweight Champion having beaten the previously unbeaten Curtis Felix jnr at York Hall last time out when they fought in November last year.

Born in Botswana but living and training in Nottingham having moved to the city aged eleven years old, Essuman recently joined Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions in May who he hopes will have a huge influence on his promising boxing career.

Essuman said after joining forces with Warren “I am thrilled to be coming on-board with Frank Warren now and he is the perfect person to take my career and showcase it to the public. I want to show people what I am about because I have been going under the radar a bit, although it has worked out in my favour at the same time because when fighters get matched up with me now it will be too little, too late to know everything about me.”

Having trained during lockdown for the fight against Peynaud, Essuman when interviewed by ESBR Boxing stated “Quarantines alright it just takes some getting used to, for me because I’ve been sticking to a routine, I’ve been coping with it in that respect, I’ve been training twice a day and still going out for my runs and I’ve got a boxing bag out in the garden and just finding little ways around it to keep me sane.”

Ahead of Saturday’s fight where no fans will be in attendance the boxer said “It’ll be a weird atmosphere, it’ll just be like having a spar with very few people around and you’re just doing what you’re doing and I don’t mind that, as long as you get to give people free smoke, I’m okay with that.”

The event will be screened live on BT Sport 1 on Saturday night (12th September) from 7:30pm.

Main image @badlefthook Essuman is looking forward to Saturday’s European IBF belt bout.