Canadian light-middleweight champ Brandon Brewer is hoping to put boxing back in the spotlight, by headlining a world-class card in his hometown of Fredericton.

“I've seen what's out there as far as athletes and we have just as good of athletes here, we just gotta put them in the light,” says Brewer.

Brewer is the driving force behind bringing a world class professional boxing event to New Brunswick’s capital city on May 14.

“You have to go through the hoops to get all the applications; you have to be a licensed promoter, you have to go through your municipality, you have to have the permission in writing to host such an event, then you come back to the commission, they review it and you gotta work on the fighters line up, get them all matched up,” says Denis Leger, chair of the New Brunswick Combat Sports Commission.

Brewer will headline the event, but the fights will definitely have an international flavour.

‘There's fighters from Argentina, fighters from Mexico, of course out of Canada, few local prospects that they're proud to promote, but yes this is world class boxing,” says Leger.

The boxing event will take place at the Aikten Centre and Brewer is hoping for a sell-out crowd.

“Just judging on how fast the tables went, with just one Facebook post, it kind of made my goal to selling the place out,” says Brewer.

Brewer says boxing isn't as popular as it once was in the Maritimes and he'd like to change that.

“The generation above me, back in the 80s and 90s, you had Mike Tyson, you had Sugar Ray Leonard, you had Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns,” says Brewer. “Boxing was big, it has been big…I want to bring it back.”

Brewer also goes by ‘L-Jack’, a nickname he was given while growing up in rural New Brunswick.

“Everybody in the gym use to call me the lumber jack, just because I'm a bit of a hillbilly and I'm from Nackawic, which is the home of the world’s largest axe.”

Now that the details of the fight card are finally worked out, Brewer says it's time to get down to the real business of training for his fight.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ashley Blackford