By Elliot Foster

Charles Frankham will make his professional debut later this month.

The 19-year-old had been set to make his bow in the paid code back in February but unforeseen circumstances forced him off a show at the O2 Arena in London.

But Frankham, who won 71 of his 77 bouts as an amateur and won 11 national titles, will box at the same venue on April 20.

He has been confirmed as an addition to the supporting cast of the heavyweight double-header, exclusively live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN Stateside, as David Allen collides with Lucas Browne and Dereck Chisora meets Senad Gashi.

The Tony Sims-trained super-featherweight will join a whole host of talents on the card which will also include bantamweight Shannon Courtenay.

Watford’s Courtenay made a solid start to her campaign without the vest and headguard at the Copper Box Arena last month, winning on points, and she will fight for the second time as a pro alongside Joe Cordina, the Welsh former Team GB Olympian who makes a defence of his Commonwealth lightweight title against Andy Townend in a fight that will also be for the vacant British title in the nine-stone nine division.

Conor Benn is set to return in a defence of his WBA Continental title at welterweight, while there is also action for Josh Kelly, the WBA International welterweight champion, as he looks to dispatch of Poland’s Przemyslaw Runowski ahead of a showcase outing on the undercard of Anthony Joshua’s June 1 fight against Jarrell Miller, for the WBA Super, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight titles, at Madison Square Garden in New York, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and DAZN Stateside