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Boxing: On this day in 2013, Sheffield's Kid Galahad underlined his growing potential by winning the vacant British super bantamweight title - stopping scouser James Dickens in the tenth round at Rotherham's Magna Centre.

In the following year he went on to win the European and Commonwealth versions.

Now Kid is preparing for a world title eliminator against Toka Kahn Clary in Boston, USA, on October 20.

On this day tomorrow, in 2006 Junior Witter became WBC world champion, beat DeMarcus Corley, six years after last world title tilt, when he lost to Zab Judah.