Coatbridge boxer Ben McGivern is looking for a “statement” win when he gets back into the ring in October – and to build on his first professional win.
The 33-year-old is scheduled to be taking part in Sam Kynoch’s Pugilism at the Plaza on Saturday, October 9 at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow, though he doesn’t yet know his opponent.
But, after defeating Lewis van Poetsch on points at Hamilton Accies’ New Douglas Park on July 31 in his professional debut, McGivern trusts that Kynoch will give him a tough opponent.
And he’s looking for a win that will make people sit up and take notice.
McGivern told the Advertiser: “It hasn’t been that long since I made my debut, and I said to Sam I wanted to be out as much as possible, but just to be as fast as I’m going to be is great, to keep busy and get back into the gym.
“I want to get as many fights as possible under my belt until the end of the year.
“As soon as that fight was over, I wanted straight back out, whether that was up here, down south or anywhere – as long as I’m kept busy.
“With the pause we had last year, I was supposed to be making my professional debut, but I’m just glad I’ve got that out the way and I can fight more regularly.
“People know of me, they’ve seen what I’m about, so hopefully I can get this fight out the way, make a statement in a good way, and people start to take notice of me, so fights start coming thick and fast.”
McGivern was full of praise for his opponent van Poetsch, and for Kynoch for not giving him the perfect test.
He said: “I wanted either an undefeated fighter or somebody making their debut – somebody along those lines.
“Not taking anything away from the journeymen, but when Sam told me I was fighting van Poetsch in my first fight, I looked at his record, and he’s been in with some hard, hard people!
“I watched his fights and I knew this was a really tough test for myself, because experience beats a lot of things.
“I knew I was in for a hard four rounds, but I went in there, and doing what I did, and staying to my boxing plan, I couldn’t thank the guy enough.
“He said ‘Ben, I came to win, I need the wins under my belt’, and I really appreciated those hard four rounds, because I learned a lot in there – there’s a lot of learning to do in each fight.
“Sam could have got me somebody with no wins, seven losses and no draws, and I could have walked over the top of him, but the debut couldn’t have gone any better, the opponent was spot-on.”
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