The fight, live on DAZN at bp pulse LIVE Arena in Birmingham, gives the 30-year-old Scotsman the ideal chance to get himself back on track after a disappointing loss to Cristobel Lorente on April 17.

Having drawn with the tricky Spaniard in October 2025, Collins was extremely confident of beating him in a rematch that doubled as a final eliminator for the WBC featherweight title. Things didn’t go to plan and Lorente boxed his way to a split decision win.

It was an unusually flat performance from Collins but sometimes there are reasons behind what we see in the ring.

“It was just about a mad situation,” Collins (17-1-1, 8 KOs) told The Ring. "I'd weighed in the day before and then my missus went into labor a couple of hours later. I didn't know about it.

“On the morning of the Lorente fight, my mum had come into the house at 7:30am and I was like, 'Why are you waking me up? What are you doing? It's fight day.'

"She was like, 'I think you should call Anna, she's in the hospital.' I called my missus and the baby was born. I went up to see her that morning, and it was just ... I think I just had a lot on my plate and on my mind that day.”

Welcoming a new arrival into the family is one of the happiest moments of anybody’s life and it's very easy to assume that learning of the news on the morning of the biggest fight of your career would be the ultimate source of motivation. It's also very difficult to think of a bigger distraction.

Rather than solely putting the performance down to his drifting mind, Collins had a close look at every aspect of his training.

One of the most ferocious trainers in British boxing, Collins is also a fitness fanatic who stays busy with CrossFit workouts, long runs and plenty more crammed into his extensive regime. Anyone who has followed his progress through the ranks and knows how he trains must have wondered whether he had overdone things and left his edge in the gym.

In fact, the total opposite was true.

“Do you know what? I actually never did any of that during the Lorente camp last time,” he said. “After the first fight I thought I'm going to dial all this back and I never done any of it for the last one.

“[This time] I went back to what I was doing because the last one was flat. I couldn't get going, I never felt like my fitness wasn't there but I never felt as explosive as I usually am so I went back to doing my thing.”

Collins will need his fast-twitch fibers to be firing this weekend.

Davies (18-1, 9 KOs) is a well-rounded fighter with excellent finishing instincts. He also knows that while a win will put him much closer to a shot at a featherweight world title, a loss would push him to the back of a very long queue.

“It's a great fight. We're both kind of on that fringe world level so it's going to be an exciting one,” he said.

“I’m happy because people are probably going to think I fell off and I'm done now based on the last performance but I think the people that know me know that that wasn't me, and that wasn't a great performance for me so it's good. I think they'll be overlooking me.”