Matchroom are set to win the race to land amateur standout Leo Atang.<\/p>\n
The York heavyweight has emerged as one of the hottest prospects in Britain as a result of his accomplishments in the unpaid ranks.<\/p>\n
The teenager, a five-time national champion, won the World Boxing Under-19 world championships last year, stopping his Korean opponent Lee Geon Hui inside the first round of the super-heavyweight final to claim gold.<\/p>\n
But instead of staying amateur and attempting to book his place at the Olympics, the 18-year-old has decided to turn professional and The Ring understands he has signed a multi-fight deal with Matchroom.<\/p>\n
Atang, a small, agile heavyweight from Legions ABC in York was a former rugby league winger before focusing on boxing and he has already spent a lot of time in pro gyms, sparring a number of British heavyweights such as Dave Allen.<\/p>\n
He was a guest at the Matchroom event topped by Jack Catterall\u2019s defeat to Arnold Barboza in Manchester in February and now Eddie Hearn has swooped to land the youngster\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n
Speaking to International Boxing News in February, Atang outlined his lofty ambitions in the pro game. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do it if I didn\u2019t believe I could do it,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to be undisputed. I believe I can do it and I will fight anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom are set to win the race to land amateur standout Leo Atang. The York heavyweight has emerged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-32443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114363653382393698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}