THE HONEYMOON IS ON HOLD for newlywed Nathan Heaney due to a big night at the AO Arena, Manchester, where he faces a domestic battle with Jack Flatley on September 24.
Heaney recently married Louise, his girlfriend of 11 years, but knew plans for a break in the sun to celebrate the occasion would have to be shelved because a spot on the Joyce-Parker blockbuster undercard had been reserved for him. and his army of followers.
Heaney, 33, and 15-0, comes into the Flatley fight with three impressive and hard-fought wins over international opponents, with two stoppages over Konstantin Aleksandrov and Sladan Janjanin before recovering from a first-round knockdown to comfortably outpoint. to Diego Ramirez.
He is now set for a Stoke v Bolton clash against Flatley with his IBO International middleweight belt on the line.
He hopes skipping the sun after the wedding is a sacrifice worth making.
“The only thing is having to postpone the honeymoon to fight on Joyce’s card, which is a bit of a nightmare, but, but, if everything works out and I’m sure it will, it will all be worth it. it’s.
“I need to hold the payment packages now!”
Heaney missed out on a night’s pay when injury ruled him out of the July show at the SSE Arena, Wembley, a night also headlined by Joyce, and he was denied the chance to bring his troops to London.
“It was really disappointing, mainly due to the fact that I would have been fighting in the capital and in a new place where my guys would go. I went to the show to support and watch it and I thought the place would have been full of Stokies.
“Over 650 bought me tickets and as we got closer there would be another 50 or so and it would have been really, really nice to show Frank and everyone where my guys are going to travel.
“Obviously it didn’t happen and it would have been very foolish of me to fight with an injury,” added Heaney, who reports that all is well now on the physical front.
“I basically sprained a ligament in the back of my shoulder and they did an MRI to check if it was torn or not. If it was, it would have been very, very bad and I would have had to have surgery, but my injury was more of a degeneration of the whole shoulder, so it hurt a lot.
“Since I’ve had treatment it’s been really good. I’ve been boxing for 23 years and it’s essentially a burnout.”
In addition to the huge Joyce vs. Parker clash, ‘Nowhere To Run’ will see Amanda Serrano bidding to win four world title belts at featherweight when the Puerto Rican superstar makes her UK debut against undefeated Dane Sarah Mahfoud.
Queensberry fighters Anthony Cacace, Ekow Essuman, Raven Chapman and Mark Heffron appear in the supporting cast of the September 24 blockbuster ‘Nowhere to Run’ at the AO Arena, Manchester, a fight night not to be missed.
Tickets for ‘Nowhere to Run’, the heavyweight clash between Joe Joyce and Joe Parker on September 24 at the AO Arena, Manchester, to be shown exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office, are priced from £ 40 and are on sale now exclusively at Ticketmaster. co.uk.
