Sheffield boxing: Big New Year challenge for giant heavyweight
The 6ft 8ins power house has lost five of his last nine fights.
But he takes part in the first show of 2018, when he faces Scotland’s Gary Cornish, a British and Commonwealth title contender, in Glasgow on January 26.
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After that bout, Howe will test himself at the other end of the country, against unbeaten DL Jones, in Kent.
Jones has won eight and drawn one.
Howe is not fazed about fighting on the road, he’s campaigned at home in just one of out of his last seven fights.
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