The 23-year-old Smithborough fighter has a perfect 15-0 professional record with eight of those wins achieved inside the distance.

But he is not signed to any major promoter and has found it very difficult to get meaningful fights.

This is his first time in the ring since last June and his previous fight when he won the WBC Youth title was in December 2021. He has time on his side, but he needs to start fighting better quality opponents.

Given his record, not too many ranking fighters are willing to take him on, so he needs financial support from a promoter to make it worthwhile for opponents to risk their reputation against him.

He ought to have too much power for Miesi, who has a patchy 9-7 professional record - five more of his fights were scored as draws.

The contest is on the undercard of the WBO world cruiserweight title fight between champion Lawrence Okolie and unbeaten Kiwi David Light.

Meanwhile, at the world women’s amateur championships in New Delhi, two of Amy Broadhurst’s rivals will contest Sunday’s welterweight final.

In the lightweight division, Brazilian Beatrix Ferreira who lost to Kelly Harrington in the gold medal bout at the Tokyo Olympics is on target a win a third successful world title in the 60kg division.

Ferreira, who turned professional after the Olympics (she can still compete in these so-called amateur championships), is managed by Brian Peters - who handles Katie Taylor’s career - and looks on target to win her third successive world title.

Ireland together with the US, Canada, Britain, Ukraine and a number of EU countries boycotted the championship in protest at alleged corruption in the International Boxing Association (IBA) as well as their controversial decision to allow boxers from Russia and Belarus to compete under their own flag despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At last year’s world championships in Istanbul, Amy Broadhurst beat Imane Khelif from Algeria in the light welterweight final. Earlier this year she beat China’s Yang Liu on her way to winning a gold medal at the Strandja Cup in Bulgaria. Khelif and Yang Liu meet in the 66kg final on Sunday.

The gold medal winners in New Delhi will receive $100,000 (€92,900) in prize money. The controversial Russian President of the IBA Umar Kremlev announced this afternoon that the prize fund for the 2025 championships would be doubled with the gold medallists receiving $200,000. He didn’t explain how the IBA would finance the additional prize money.