Born in Mill Lane Hospital,
Liverpool, Dickens took up boxing at the age of 12 at the Salisbury ABC; After two years he moved on to the Golden Gloves ABC before moving on again to the Everton Red Triangle Boxing Club, representing his country many times at junior level. He won the senior
ABA bantamweight title in 2010. Galahad stopped Dickens in the 10th round, inflicting the first defeat of his professional career. Dickens won his next two fights before getting a second chance at the British title after
Gavin McDonnell vacated it. He faced
Josh Wale at the Echo Arena in March 2015, this time winning via unanimous decision to add the British title to his English title. In his next fight, Dickens fought
Thomas Patrick Ward in a bid to defend his British super-bantamweight title. Despite Ward's strong start, Dickens seemed to be the one racking up the points in the early rounds. This would be the case, until a sudden turn in the fight in which Ward started to punish Dickens. In the ninth round, Ward was pushed to the canvas, which opened up a cut above his left eye, leading the referee to stop the fight on the advice of the ringside doctor. At the time of stoppage the scorecards were 85–87, 84–88, and 85–87 in favor of the challenger. Ward won the fight by
technical decision.
Golden Contract tournament In the semi-finals, Dickens battled fellow Briton
Leigh Wood. Early in the fight, Dickens had swelling over his left eye, but managed to put on a very good performance throughout the fight. Dickens, who was ranked #3 at
featherweight by the
IBF at the time, managed to snatch a
majority decision victory. On 15 February 2025 at the
Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, Dickens defeated
Zelfa Barrett by unanimous decision. Dickens challenged
IBA and
WBA (Interim) super-featherweight champion
Albert Batyrgaziev at Rixos Tersane in
Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 July 2025, winning the fight by stoppage in the fourth round.
WBA super-featherweight champion Dickens was elevated to full WBA super-featherweight champion on 6 December 2025 after
Lamont Roach Jr. was stripped of the title. Dickens was due to make the first defence of his title against
Hayato Tsutsumi (8–0, 5 KOs) on 27 December 2025 in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of
The Ring V: Night of the Samurai card. However, the fight was cancelled after Tsutsumi sustained an injury during training. Dickens made the first defense of his title against
Anthony Cacace at
3Arena in
Dublin on 14 March 2026. He lost by unanimous decision. ==Professional boxing record==