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Whilst August is traditionally a quiet month in boxing, rising Promoter/Manager Steve Goodwin has not been taking time off and has been busy securing title opportunities for nine of his boxers in the first eight weeks of the new season.
“There are no easy fights at title level. But these guys wouldn’t expect it any other way. They wanted the opportunities. We delivered!” said Goodwin.
“We work extremely closely with the boxers we manage and those who promotionally are signed to us. Our team works really hard on securing opportunities and our boxers know they have a whole team working full time on boxing to help do this.
“If we need to put our money in our pockets and secure home advantage by winning purse bids – then we do that, as we have already done so on three occasions.”
First up is our Southern Area Featherweight Champion “The Genius” Jamie Speight who fights Isaac Lowe for the English title on the Matchroom/Sky sports show at Leeds on September 5. Two weeks later “The Pexican” Johnny Garton boxes Martin Welsh in a final eliminator for the English Title at York Hall, Bethnal Green.
“We are delighted to have won the Matty Askin v Lawrence Bennett purse bid for the English Cruiserweight title on our October 17 Goodwin Promotions ‘We Never Stop’ show at York Hall,” said Goodwin.”Bennett deserves home advantage and we did not want to travel to Blackpool for it so we put in a purse bid which was the highest received at the board.”
The same show sees four more high profile fights which involves Goodwin boxers. Goodwin won the purse bids for Kris Agyei-Dua’s fourth attempt at winning the Southern Area Light-Middleweight title where he takes on champion Freddie Turner.
Goodwin boxer Floyd “Pacman” Moore also has home advantage when he takes on Gloucester’s Danny Carter for the vacant Southern Area Lightweight title. “Smokin” Joe Mullender also has home advantage when he takes on Ben Davies in an eliminator for the English Middleweight title and Leon McKenzie takes on John McCallum in a British Title Super-Middleweight title eliminator.
Two weeks later, on November 5, Olivia Goodwin promotes the British title eliminator between John O’Donnell and Dale Evans.
“We hope Dale Evans does not withdraw from this fight,” said Goodwin. “We put in a higher purse bid than Evans’s promoter and O’Donnell has offered ‘winner takes both purses’ to Evans.”
Whatever transposes in all of these fights – Goodwin has once again proved he delivers, not only for his boxers, but also for fight fans in general.
Thirty two year old Super-Middleweight Dalton Miller hopes that he can prove that a real life rocky story can happen. After having only nine fights in six years, many as a last minute journeyman, Miller wants to prove that it is possible to turn a career round.
Miller has been out of the ring for over twelve months and after severing ties with his previous management – decided to sign a three year deal with prolific boxing manager Steve Goodwin.
“It was an easy choice to make,” said Miller, “You only have to see what Steve is creating for boxers and there was only one man for me to sign with. I travelled to Goodwin’s offices and was really impressed when I got there.
“The whole set up is so professional and after speaking with the team I knew I had made the right decision. I have never had my career planned or structured and now I know when my next three fights will be and that we are aiming for a title show middle of 2016.”
Goodwin said “We thrive on trying to either create or resurrect boxers’ dreams. I can see that Dalton had become disillusioned, but he is now truly motivated and we have set him up with a new trainer so as long as he keeps his part of the bargain – we will deliver”.
“It happened for Denis Andries back in the day so why can’t it happen for me. This is a new start and a new beginning with a brilliant team,” Miller concluded.
Miller will have his first fight under the Goodwin banner on 21st November at York Hall. Will Miller prove to be a true life Rocky? We don’t know, but it will very interesting watching him try.
