Muheeb Fazeldin is lined up to make a boxing comeback at Doncaster Dome on July 25

Is it possible for any boxer to take a six-year break and come back in anything like the same form and fitness?

At 33 years of age, Sheffield's Muheeb Fazeldin thinks he can.

In fact he thinks he will be a better all-round performer when he returns to the ring this month.

Fazeldin will climb through the ropes at Doncaster Dome on July 25, having undergone a rigorous training camp under Asgar Tair in Derby.

"I believe I will be a better boxer than I was," says the former Ingle student.

"Before I would balloon up in weight, spending too much time eating and chilling.

"Now I live the life. I know where I am at. I am as healthy as can be, and I have no wear and tear to worry about.

"I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs or party" said the father of three.

'Flashy' Fazeldin, who has homes in Firth Park, Hillsborough and Chapeltown, says his spirituality defines his thinking as he prepares to box again.

"It was written in the stars that I would come back. It was meant to be," he says.

"I might think I am the best thing since sliced bread but I don't know what is going to happen - only God knows how it will all work out.

"But I believe I'll be better now - I was erratic before and had started slowing down.

"Now I am elusive, I can really move with good footwork."

Muheeb describes himself as an "honourable old school man" whose boxing abilities were shaped by around seven years at the Ingle gym, followed by a spells with the late Ali Hamed, the Peacock gym in London and in America.

He could have selected an easy journeyman to for his return.

Instead, he will be in with super featherweight Eliecer Quezada, from Nicaragua. While the 35-year-old opponent has lost 44 times he has won 24 matches, nine of them by knockout.

That compares to the Sheffielder's W13, L1, D1 record.

"Yes, my opponent has a weird CV," said Muheeb, who recognises there will be jeopardy in the four-rounder.

"But I know my skill-set, and there is no point in me fighting someone who has lost hundreds of fights and just comes to tuck up. I might as well just shadow box as fight someone like that.

"I don't it to be easy...and I know this could be a banana skin."

Pitsmoor-raised Fazeldin's ambition is to try and lock into the "many more belts" that are on offer since he left the sport in 2020.

"I want to be around European level and eventually get up the world rankings."