Fancy some live boxing action to start off the weekend?
There is a big amateur event taking place at the Beechlawns Hotel in Dunmurry on Friday night, March 31.
The 'Battle of Belfast' sees two teams go head-to-head as part of a special Bridges Beyond Boxing project.
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BBB is a charity organisation that takes a group of young boxers from Belfast and other parts of Ireland to the United States for boxing match-ups every year.
This week they will welcome 10 boxers from Boston in the US to compete in amateur bouts across two separate nights.
The charity is is run by Brendan Lowe Sr and Joe Lowe of St Paul’s Boxing Club in West Belfast, who work alongside Spike Martin of Scorpion Boxing in Ballymoney and Stephen Power from Boston.
The project has been running since 2016 and proved a huge success.
Bridges Beyond Boxing will host their first event on Friday evening, March 31. It will see 10 Belfast boxers go up against a Boston team
The evening begins at 7.30pm and there is limited availability of tickets. If you can't make it along then you can also watch a live stream of the boxing online.
The fine people at Belfast Boxers will be streaming all of the fights live on their website for £4.99.
If you want to watch the fights then check out the link here: https://www.belfastboxers.com/watch-live
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