Noakes, alongside his gym-mate, the also Queensberry-promoted Henry Turner, is the highest-profile fighter involved in the Top Tier Boxing date that is less than a week before Queensberry oversee Fabio Wardley-Daniel Dubois, but it doesn’t trouble Noakes, nor his trainer Alan Smith, that he is not involved in Manchester the following weekend. The Englishman, instead, is content simply to be returning ahead of his second pursuit of a lightweight world title later in 2026.
