Tyrone Nurse will aim to ensure Willie Limond’s reign as British light-welterweight champion remains short when the pair clash later this year.

Huddersfield boxer Nurse is mandated to fight Scotland’s Commonwealth champion, who beat holder Curtis Woodhouse on points to claim the national strap in Glasgow on Friday.

The showdown, which is set to take place in September or October, will be for both the British and Commonwealth 10st titles.

English champion Nurse, 24, was in the crowd to see Limond, 35, claim a British crown at the third attempt after losses to Alex Arthur at super-featherweight and Anthony Crolla at lightweight.

Limond, a former European super-featherweight and WBU lightweight champion, has held the Commonwealth light-welterweight crown since beating fellow Scot Eddie Doyle last year.

Nurse will attempt to become only the the third British champion from Huddersfield after light-middleweight Prince Rodney and cruiserweight Mark Hobson.

Huddersfield has had three former Commonwealth champions - Hobson, welterweight James Hare and flyweight Dale Robinson.

Limond twice floored former professional footballer Woodhouse with powerful uppercuts on his way to a convincing points win.

“It’s taken me 13 years to get it (a British title),” said Limond, who has been in the ring with greats like Amir Khan and Erik Morales.

“It was a great fight and Curtis pushed me all the way. I think I needed him to do that to make me perform. I feel I performed the best I could at the age I’m at.”

Ex-Sheffield United and Birmingham player Woodhouse, who had been the British title holder since February, said: “I fought the hardest I could, but on the night, Willie was the better man.”

Dewsbury’s Gary Sykes has been forced to pull out of his planned British super-featherweight title defence against Liam Walsh in Manchester next month because of a hand injury.

Sykes has had surgery after a finger, fractured as he beat Jon Kay to win the British title in Dewsbury last month, failed to heal properly.

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