article_snippet: Venezuelan champion Jorge Linares beat Javier Prieto to win the vacant belt in Japan last December .
article_snippet: The 30-year-old from Dagenham previously challenged Ricky Burns in 2012 but was stopped in the fourth round.
article_snippet: the WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares also lost to Michael Katsidis for the interim WBO title at Upton Park two years earlier.
article_snippet: Russian champion Evgeny Gradovich (above) has held the IBF strap since 2013 and has won 19 of Russian champion Evgeny Gradovich (above)
article_snippet: 20 fights, drawing the other.
article_snippet: The Olympic champion is also in action on April 4 in Newcastle.
highlights_snippet: The Welshman takes on Russian champion Evgeny Gradovich .
  