HENRY Castle is hoping to cause a real upset in the Potteries tomorrow when he attempts to land the English lightweight title.

The 29-year-old Southampton boxer takes on Stoke’s Scott Lawton in the champion’s birthplace in front of what is expected to be a partisan home crowd at a packed Fenton Manor arena.

The contest is the main support on a bill topped by the British and Commonwealth flyweight bout between Chris Edwards and Wayne Bloy.

Both fights on the Frank Maloney-promoted Stoking The Fire event will be featured on Sky Sports (from 10pm).

The contest represents Salisbury-born Castle’s moment of truth.

Victory for the former English amateur champion would almost certainly see him pitted against the winner of the forthcoming John Murray-Lee McAllister battle for the British title.

Castle is in the best form of his pro career.

His last fight, in October last year, saw him destroy former British and Commonwealth champion Graham Earl in the first round – Castle knocking him down in the opening seconds before the fight had to be stopped in the second minute.

Prior to that he halted the previously unbeaten Lee Cook in the fifth round of their clash at Portsmouth’s Mountbatten Centre.

Castle has won his last five fights and has not tasted defeat since March 2007.

But Lawton is a canny opponent and at six foot tall, will have a significant height advantage over Castle, who will celebrate his 30th birthday just days later.

Lawton’s only defeats in the past three years have come against European champion Jon Thaxton and former Commonwealth title holder Amir Khan.