The hugely popular Prizefighter returns this weekend for the seventh time this year and 22nd time since its inception in April 2008. For the first time ever, the featherweight division will be featured, with eight fighters from the 126 lb class doing battle at the York Hall in Bethnal Green. As usual, Prizefighter is presented by Barry Hearn's Matchroom Promotions and will be screened live on Sky Sports 1. All the action starts at 8:00 PM.

As usual, the entire tournament will begin and end on one night, with all bouts being fought over the three round limit. Fighters compete in a quarterfinal lineup, with the four winners going through to the semi's and the two winners of those bouts contesting the final and the opportunity to win the Prizefighter trophy plus a cheque for £32,000.

The featherweight division is one of the most illustrious in boxing history, and has produced such legendary champions as Salvador Sanchez,  Willie Pep, Prince Naseem Hamed, Sandy Saddler, Abe Attell, Terry McGovern and many more. Other great fighters have been champions in the division before moving up in weight, like Alexis Arguello and Azumah Nelson. Modern day legends such as Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez have all been world champions at 126 lbs. The greatest fighter of the modern era - Manny Pacquiao - failed in his bid for the WBA and IBF featherweight titles, drawing with defending champ Juan Manuel Marquez in 2004. 

On Saturday night in the York Hall, the names may not be quite so illustrious, but the desire and will-to-win of the eight fighters contesting the inaugural Prizefighter: The Featherweights will be off the scale, guaranteeing a great night of boxing entertainment. 

Favorite to win on Saturday night is the popular Bolton based 'Mongolian Warrior' Choi Tseveenpurev (32-5, 22 KO's). 40 year old Choi is a tough competitor and a dangerous fighter, who hits hard and has never been stopped. His only defeat in the last seven years was a shock loss to Derry Mathews in the semi finals of 2010's super featherweight Prizefighter competition. Choi had kayoed Mathews in five rounds back in 2008, but the Liverpool fighter put on an inspired performance to take the decision. 

Choi has won twice since that loss, and is fully focused on taking the Prizefighter trophy in the weight class in which he has competed in for the bulk of his 15 year - 37 fight career – the featherweights. 

As Choi himself puts it: "Matchroom and Spencer Fearon, my manger know I'm a throwback fighter not from the days of Rocky Marciano or Sugar Ray Robinson but from the days of Genghis Khan, when men were men. I'm here to knock them all out. Hard Knocks for life." 

Odds to win: 13/8 

22 year old Mancunian Rhys ''Pure Silk'' Roberts (13-1, 2 KO's) turned pro in 2007, and won his first 12 fights in a row, including a 10 round decision over Georgian George Gachechiladze for the vacant International Masters Featherweight Title. Roberts' excellent progress was temporarily derailed when he was forced to retire after just one round of action with a suspected broken hand in March of this year in a fight against Daniel Sassou of Togo. 

Roberts returned to the ring four months later, showing no ill effects on the way to winning a four round decision over journeyman Kristian Laight. Roberts hopes to take on Choi in the final  on Saturday, and says: ''To have a name like Choi on my record would be fantastic and beating him in the final would be a great way to claim the title.'' 

Odds to win: 3/1

Lee ''The Tipton Slasher'' Glover certainly has the most interesting nickname of this current Prizefighter line-up, if not the previous 21 previous Prizefighter competitions combined! (The original Tipton Slasher was the great William Perry, a bare knuckle fighter who claimed the championship of England in the 1880's.) 

24-year-old Glover (6-0, 2 KO's) turned professional last June, and boxed his first 10 rounder exactly one year later, outpointing tough Geordie Dougie Curran.

Odds to win: 6/1

Coventry's 28-year-old Troy ''Terrifying'' James comes second in this Prizefighter's nickname ranking, and could be the dark horse of the competition. James turned pro in January 2009, and has been boxing regularly on a diet of journeyman ever since. He has boxed twice this year, outpointing Bulgarian Valentin Stoychev in March, and winning a four round decision over the vastly experienced Steve Gethin in September. 

Initially managed by featherweight legend Barry McGuigan, it was the former WBA champion who suggested that James put himself forward for inclusion in Prizefighter. Says James: "I left Barry a while ago because I wasn't getting fights. It wasn't his fault and we parted on good terms and I now work with my local promoter Les Allen and train two minute from my house. I still speak to Barry now and then and he was the one who told me about this Prizefighter.'' 

Odds to win: 7/1

30-year-old Liverpudlian Lee Jennings (5-2, 2 KO's) comes into Prizefighter hot off the back of a first round knockout over the previously unbeaten Birmingham prospect Chris Truman in June. It was Jennings best career victory so far, and came as a perfect tonic following a fourth-round TKO loss to another unbeaten prospect, Sunderland's Kirk Goodings last September. Jennings, who normally competes as a lightweight, boxed more than 80 bouts as an amateur, experience that will give him an excellent grounding for the three-round Prizefighter format.

Odds to win 7/1

Slough's 27-year-old super bantamweight Ian Bailey (7-7) may have the second lowest winning percentage of any of this Prizefighter's lineup, but aside from Choi, he is arguably the most experienced fighter of all, and must be given an outside chance of pulling off a shock victory. A pro since 2008, Bailey won his first three fights, but picked up just two wins from his next nine contests, losing to the likes of Kris Matthew Hughes, Lee Selby, Ryan Walsh, Carl Frampton and Michael Walsh, who stopped him in the first round.

Bailey has bounced back in 2011 with two wins over moderate opposition, but his experience of facing some of the top prospects in the lighter divisions should stand him in excellent stead on Saturday night.

Odds to win: 11/1

London's 20-year-old George Jupp is the least experienced fighter in this Prizefighter lineup, and also the tallest at a fraction under 5'10''. Jupp turned pro in May 2010 and after winning three four-rounders, he was outpointed last time out, losing to Raffi Khan in March. Jupp needs a fast start in his opening bout on Saturday night, but if he can make those long arms work for him, he could be a handful. 

Odds to win: 16/1

Nottingham's 29-year-old Barrington Brown (5-5-3, 2 KO's) has the lowest winning percentage of the current Prizefighter lineup, and has not won a fight since March 2008, but his record is deceiving, and he is a far better fighter than his ledger would suggest. 

Now in his sixth year as a professional, Brown has only twice faced opponents with losing records. He has been stopped just once in his 13 fights - in two rounds by hot prospect Joe Murray in 2009. A smooth boxer with excellent hand speed and footwork, if  Brown can hit the ground running, he might just spring a surprise or two on Saturday night. 

Odds to win: 20/1

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