On Saturday night, the 28-year-old junior welterweight from Bolton will step up a number of levels and box Welsh warhorse, Gavin Gwynne (18-4-2, 5 KOs) on the undercard of the WBO heavyweight title fight between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois.

For the first time in his career, Majid will walk to the ring as a betting underdog but he insists that the build up hasn’t felt any different to normal.

“Not really. I mean, it's a fight I'm more excited for. A fight that I'm actually up for and a fight I'm looking forward to,” Majid (16-0, 4 KOs) told The Ring.

“We know what Gavin brings. I’m giving Gavin a lot of respect. I think he's a fringe world level opponent. He's the best opponent I'm going to face to date and it's a challenge I'm certainly up for.”

Majid has a large fanbase and estimates he has sold around a thousand tickets for this weekend’s fight which takes place at Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena. Over the years, lots of fighters who move the amount of tickets Majid does have been slowly but surely manoeuvred through the rankings and steered away from serious danger until the reward was worth the risk.

Majid has steadily upped his level of opposition but insists that he has patiently waited and ticked all the necessary boxes before making a big leap.

“In all honesty, I've never hand-picked any of my opponents. Everyone that they’ve asked me to fight, I've fought,” he said.

“My last two previous opponents, did I want to fight them? No, I wanted bigger names, but there's a process. I've had to do everything that was asked of me to get this opportunity.”

Majid has very recent evidence of the scale of the task he faces this weekend.

In November of 2024 Gwynne was chosen to provide Cameron Vuong with a test and although he lost a controversial decision, he came within a whisker of beating the hyped prospect. Twelve months later, he and Vuong boxed to a hard fought draw in a rematch. Gwynne believes that he won both fights.

Those two performances have proven that he still has plenty to offer and whilst he may be stepping up to 140 pounds on Saturday, he will still poses a very real threat to Majid’s unbeaten record.

Majid is confident that he will do a more conclusive job than Vuong.

“Look, everyone's got their own style,” he said.

“Cameron Vuong is a good fighter. I’m not taking anything away from him but styles make fights and I believe I'm that bit cuter, a bit smarter. Just a different style. By being the best me. As a boxer you believe you can beat anyone.”