Good afternoon, here's the preview for tonight's british RBR, for the UK's title in probably the best division we have had in the UK over the past couple of years. Tonight we see Colin Lynes return to challenge for the title he vacated back in 2007, against one of the young prospects in the division, Paul McCloskey, who was the replacement for David Barnes.
Colin Lynes (31-4, 12 KOs) is coming off an unlucky SD defeat in Italy against Gianluca Branco in May, where it was mainly the doing of the home crowd that gave Branco the victory, with most observers having Lynes ahead, but only by a few rounds. By now, Lynes is a known quantity, being a good boxer who is hard to catch, and an expert at getting the rounds under his belt, and not getting caught too often behind his solid guard. His record is also somewhat deceptive, as two of his defeats came back to back in 2005-06 against Junior Witter, and a disappointing fight against Lenny Daws, from which he seemed to have recovered, and still should be the European champion in my opinion.
As for Paul McCloskey (17-0, 7KOs), the Northern Irishman is coming off a good points win against Nigel Wright in July, and has mixed in some good European company so far in his career, dominating Cezar Bazan earlier in the year, and putting Tontcho Tontchev to the sword by fourth round KO around this time last year. McCloskey will look to dart in and out against Lynes and land the accurate shots which have seen him raise in many estimations over the past year, and an upset is definitely not out of the question.
Coverage begins around 10pm UK time, so eyes down and look in.
Hartlepool's favourite son Michael Hunter will continue his rehabilitation from his defeat to Steve Molitor with an 8-rounder against veteran Frenchman Osman Aktas and Welshman Taz Jones will take on undefeated Pole Gregorz Proksa.
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