By Ian Aldous: This Saturday night, June 16th at Manchester Velodrome, Hatton Promotions presents ‘Road To Glory’ which will see a stacked card headlined by Scott Quigg (24-0) as he faces Rendall Munroe (24-2) for the interim WBA world super-bantamweight championship. This week the current British super-bantamweight champion, Quigg, spoke with me about the fight.

Despite bookmakers installing Scott as favourite to win the fight, this will undoubtedly be the biggest test of his young career. Does Scott agree and think of himself as the favourite going into the fight? “If you go on what he’s done in the past and what I’ve done in my career then it’s hard to believe that. He’s been fighting at a higher level and he’s coming back down (a level) to me. I’m the up-and-comer and yet to prove myself at this level, so I was surprised I’m the favourite but I know what I’m capable of doing. All that matters is what happens on the night and I’m confident that it’ll be me getting my hand raised.”

The experience edge clearly goes to Rendall Munroe. At 32 years of age, Rendall is nine years senior to Scott. His four extra years as a professional boxer over Scott and the fact that he’s already travelled to Japan and taken highly respected champion, Toshiaki Nishioka 12 rounds for the WBC world super-bantamweight title back in October 2010 back up that fact. You could say that Rendall has ‘been there’ and ‘done that’, but that fails to concern Scott. “No, at the end of the day, if I didn’t think I could win the fight, I wouldn’t take the fight. The experience he’s got, you can’t buy, I can’t buy that from a shop or anywhere else. That’s what he’s got to his advantage, that he’s fought at a higher level and got that experience. I took myself over to America a few times to train at the Wild Card Gym and hopefully the experience that I shared sparring with fighters over there hopefully gives me some experience to be able to deal with Rendall. ”

In the past seven months Scott has scored two impressive British title fight stoppage victories over Jason Booth (36-7) and Jamie Arthur (18-5). A win over Munroe, and Scott would surely be able to refer to himself as ‘world-class’. “Yeah, because he is world-class. He’s beaten very good fighters, so you’ve got to put him up there. I believe I’m capable and believe in my own ability. It’s all about showing it in the ring and I believe I have got world-class potential and that potential will come out on June 16th because it’ll have to.”

It’s a great time to be a super-bantamweight boxer in Great Britain at the moment. The latest WBA rankings place Scott Quigg at No.2 with Munroe at No.4. Current undefeated Commonwealth champion, Carl Frampton (14-0) waits in the shadows with his hall-of-fame manger, Barry McGuigan claiming he is already better than both Scott and Rendall. “It don’t really bother me, this is the fight that I want (Munroe). No.1 against No.2 in Britain and I wanna prove I’m No.1 in Britain and belong at the higher level. This is a ten times harder fight than it would be fighting Carl at this stage.”

Unfortunately for Ricky Hatton and his big stable of domestic and international talent, the June 16th show will be the last broadcast for Hatton Promotions on Sky Sports under the current deal with no new contract offered, much to the surprise of many fans and boxing experts.

The stacked bill also sees Ryan Rhodes (46-5) fight undefeated Sergey Rabchenko (20-0) for the vacant EBU light-middleweight title. Undefeated former world middleweight title challenger, Martin Murray (23-0-1) defends his WBA inter-continental title against Karim Achour (13-2-2) and heavyweight prospect, Richard Towers (13-0) puts his undefeated record on the line against Gregory Tony (17-2) for the EU heavyweight title.

Remaining tickets are available from hattonboxing.com and ticketmaster.co.uk

Sky Sports 2HD will broadcast the show live at 9pm on Saturday night.