FORMER WBC super-middleweight champion Richie Woodhall will be a knockout attraction in Tenbury Wells later this month.

Woodhall will be joined by ‘Big’ Joe Egan who, according to Mike Tyson, is the ‘toughest white man on the planet’.

Women’s Global Boxing Champion Lindsey Scragg and Don Broadhurst, the defending Commonwealth super flyweight champion, are also coming to town.

The quartet have been invited to Tenbury for the official opening of Tenbury Amateur Boxing Club and Boxing School of Excellence.

Former boxer Martin ‘Paddy’ Brennan has set up the new club in the main hall at the Bridge public house in Teme Street.

The venue will be officially opened on Monday, July 20 at 4.30pm.

Brennan said: “The club’s ethos is to promote discipline, respect, honesty and integrity among the youth of Tenbury Wells and the surrounding areas who attend. This will encourage a community feel in the town.

"Clubs such as ours will be a social link that is much-needed in the area and it gives the local youth the opportunity to improve themselves and their situation.”

Brennan, who was born in Northern Ireland, is well-known in the Midlands boxing scene and has lived in Tenbury for the past five years.

The club’s boxing ring has been donated by Woodhall and hails from the old Stableford Professional Boxing Club.

Almost 30 junior and senior boxers flocked to the Tenbury club’s opening night last month.

The club is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Juniors, aged from 8 to 11 years old, train between 6pm and 7pm and the senior sessions are from 7pm to 8pm.

Brennan boxed for England in 1989 and hs career includes 90 amateur fights and two professional fights. He has been coaching for the past 10 years.

He said: “I am doing this because I love boxing. It’s very exciting and I am delighted Tenbury High School are interested in becoming a partner in the club.”

Brennan is friends with Woodhall who won gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland and bronze at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

He also speaks highly of Egan who won seven Irish titles and was a former sparring partner of Tyson.

“Tyson, perhaps remarkably, never knocked down Joe,” said Brennan. “And Tyson publicly refers to Joe as the toughest white man on the planet.”