Bromley flyweight Harry Mullins set to challenge for Southern Area title next month

Unbeaten flyweight Harry Mullins is set to challenge for the vacant Southern Area title on March 3.

The 20-year-old from Bromley is trained by his dad Samm, who is head coach at Lambeth’s Churchills Boxing Gym.

Mullins (6-0) won the 2020 National Amateur Championships before turning professional the following year.

He will face Somerset’s Paul Roberts (3-4) for his first belt in the paid ranks.

Asked about training his son, Samm said: “It’s twice as hard for him and twice as hard for me. I’m on his case twice as much, but I keep saying if he doesn’t want to put up with it he can go and find another coach.

“At the moment it is working, we’re kind of pushing each other. But I do feel for him, because not only is he living with his dad but he’s living with his coach.

“He won titles as an amateur and I believe he can do it as a pro. I’m not going to go shouting out he is the best flyweight in the world. But if we don’t win the Southern Area then I can tell you now that he won’t be boxing.

“If he wins titles then he can push on. If he doesn’t, I’m not there just to make the numbers up.

“I say it to all my fighters: ‘If you can’t win a Southern Area, then you shouldn’t be in the gym’. I don’t mean that with any disrespect, but it is a minimum belt, a start, for anything fighting.

“Harry is only 20 so they [Roberts’ team] think he is a kid, but they are in for a shock.”