LEISURE operations manager Lee Clayton will top the bill at a professional boxing show at the Village Hotel in Bury next Friday.

Clayton, aged 27, is an employee at the hotel, but doubles up as a keen boxer.

After a string of victories in the amateur ranks, he won his first pro fight with a first-round knockout in April.

And the Heywood-based featherweight is hoping to make it two out of two when he takes on Newcastle's Jak Johnson as headliner of a packed night of boxing at the hotel.

"This really is a home show for me," said Clayton, who works in the gym at the Bury hotel.

"I do my strength and conditioning work at the hotel gym with Danny Potter, of DP Training, but I train out of Engine Room Boxing Club in Liverpool with coach Kyle Gallagher.

"The show is being promoted by Fight Club Championship Promotions and is a complete sell-out already."

There will be another three professional fights on the undercard, with Craig Kennerdale taking on Marty Kayes, Will Cairns facing off against James McDonald and James Higgy going head-to-head with Stuart Maddox.