Four members of GB Boxing squad in action on opening day at World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool

By 4th September 2025News

FOUR members of the GB Boxing squad will be in action on day one of the inaugural World Boxing Championships, 4-14 September 2025, at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Ellis Trowbridge will lead the team off in the morning session as he takes on Ardit Murja of Albania at flyweight (M55kg) in the early session which starts at 11:00.

He will be followed in the evening session, which gets underway at 18:00, by Lauren Mackie, 2024 Olympian Chantelle Reid and Isaac Okoh.

Bantamweight (W54kg) Mackie will take on Wanqi Cao of China.

Chantelle Reid will box against New Zealand’s Morgan Henderson at light-middleweight (W70kg).

Heavyweight (M90kg), Isaac Okoh, will round the day off when he clashes with Sagyndyk Ogambay of Kazakhstan.

Tickets for both sessions of boxing (11:00 and 18:00) are on sale now (£15 adults, £5 concessions) at www.worldboxingliverpool.com.

The remaining members of the GB Boxing squad will get the opportunity to make their bow in the first ever boxing world championship event held on home soil on Friday and Saturday.  Details of all the bouts are:

Boxer Weight Opponent Date/Time Session Number
Elise Glynn W57kg Slovakia Friday 5th September – 11:15am P3
Sacha Hickey W65kg USA Friday 5th September – 12:00pm P3
Callum Makin M75kg Croatia Friday 5th September – 14:00pm P3
Damar Thomas M90+kg Kyrgyzstan Friday 5th September – 20:45pm P4
Kelsey Oakley W51kg China Saturday 6th September – 12:00pm P5
Odel Kamara M70kg IRI/KOS Saturday 6th September – AM* P5
Lucy Kings-Wheatley W60kg Belgium Saturday 6th September – PM* P6
Will Hewitt M60kg Syria Saturday 6th September – PM* P6
Patris Mughalzai M65kg USA/CRO Sunday 7th September – PM* P8
Dimeji Shittu M80kg Czech Rep Sunday 7th September – AM* P7
Alice Pumphrey W48kg Bulgaria Tuesday 9th September – 18:15pm P12
Teagn Stott M85kg HUN/CZE Tuesday 9th September – PM* P12

*Bout times TBC

Full details of the competition draw are available HERE.

Throughout the competition, details of the draw, daily schedules, results and additional information can be found on the event’s official website: https://www.worldboxingliverpool.com/.

Every session of the World Boxing Championships 2025 will be livestreamed on World Boxing’s website via Eurovision Sport (available in selected territories) at https://worldboxing.org/watch-the-world-boxing-championships/.

In regions where Eurovision Sport is not available It will livestreamed on the World Boxing YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@officialworldboxing.