FIGHT fans attending Friday’s Billericay ABC show are in for a treat.

The show – at Hannakins Farm in Rosebury Avenue – should be a big draw because several of the host club’s brightest prospects are on the card.

Already matched are two of the club’s trio of young ring prospects.

Southpaw Tony Ayres, 14, of Oak Road, Billericay, is a boxer fast making a name for himself.

The teenager earned high praise from Billericay ABC’s stalwart Les Cooke, who said: “Tony has proved that he’s got a really great boxing brain.

“We only saw him a year ago and he turned up at the gym and we put him up against a lad who’d been training for a couple of years and he really showed his class.

“Tony’s not a lad who goes into the ring and tears it up. He uses his brain and boxes in an Olympic style, with lots off technical fighting.

“He’s also got long legs and arms, so he’s got plenty of reach. Also he’s good at making sure that he’s not hit,” added Cooke.

Tony is due to fight the strong Connor Chant from the Arena Boxing Club in Peterborough.

It promises to be a tough test for the local teenageer because Chant is known to be a strong fighter.

Another youngster on the card is 14-year-old Jack Lipton, who lives in Benfleet.

Cooke believes that Jack’s hard training and dedication will stand him in great stead for both the show and beyond.

“Jack’s one of those lads who has an unothodox style which fighters don’t expect,” Cooke said.

“He’s boxed for Billericay for three years and his dad, Scott Lipton — who trained at the Lion Club in London — brings him to training.

“We call Jack Prince Naseem because he’s can throw punches from 400 different angles.

“His punches come at people from all over the place.”

Local fighter Joe Giles may be only 11 — but he’s possibly got the biggest helping of natural talent of the trio of young Billericay fighters.

Les said: “He came to us a year ago and for his size — 50 kilos — he’s tall and long.

“In my opinion he’s the lad who may end up winning a national title. He turns up at 6pm and trains until 9pm and if we opened every day he’s be here every day. That dedication shines through.”

Joe is scheduled to square up to the small but muscular John Lee from DC Cambridge.

Cooke said the show itself would feature a total of 10 championship bouts involving under 15s.

There will also be 15 support bouts involving fighters aged from 17 to 30 years.

Probably the most intriguing of these is Chalvedon BC’s Lee Martin who has been matched against a Greek boxer from the Eastgate Boxing Club in Suffolk.

And another adult bout bound to have local fight fans on their feet is 21-year-old Matt Vickers — the club’s own Billericay Bomber — who will be fighting although he is as yet unmatched.

Billericay fans should probably spare a thought for his opponent because Vickers — who is studying at university at present — has fought five times and produced four KO victories.

So the Upminster-based light-heavyweight obviously has plenty of power in his jabs.