Having already beaten local boxer Steve Aquilina, Super Scott Dixon is now scheduled to meet his challenger, Ludvic Muscat, in an eight round (three minutes each) title fight at the Ta’ Qali basketball pavilion at Ta’ Qali.

The night is being organised by Punch Promotions and is billed as an England-Malta match.

At stake in the Dixon-Muscat fight is the International Prizering Association (IPA) Middleweight title.

The event will have seven supporting bouts with the first one starting at around 7.30pm.

The other fights are as follows: Billy Corito-Ryan White; Damo Maye-Ronald (from Dione’s gym), Dione Galea-Mark Thornton; Danny Boy Essex-Steve Andrews; Jamie (from Punch Gym)-Danny Carr, Steve Aquilina-Joe Apap and Chris Mintoff-Chris Debono.

The match is sanctioned by the recently formed Malta Boxing Board of Control which is run by Scott Dixon and John Essex.

The latter said yesterday they wanted to make the sport safer in Malta. “Before every event, all the boxers will undergo a medical and there will be two doctors during events,” he said.

Dixon said they were now settling down in Malta in the hope of reviving the sport. “We have already opened Punch Gym at Qawra and we have had a promising start. We already have nine boxers enlisted of whom six are locals,” he added.

Dixon has had a fantastic past. In fact, he has won many titles. Among the honours, he has been British Empire Champion, Scottish welterweight champion, WBB champion and WBA as well as WBU interim lightweight middleweight champion.

Essex went on to comment about one of the boxers, Billy Corito, who will be in action next week. “He is the best heavyweight boxer in Malta at present. In our next event in January/February, he will be fighting for the IPA championship of Malta (super middleweight) title against Steve Aquilina. Billy, 28, has a promising future and has done well so far.

“During my time, I trained lots of heavyweights in England. I know what I’m saying – he could go a long way,” he said.