UK Weekend Roundup
On Friday, Rotherham’s Navid Mansouri retained his English Light Middleweight Title on a Technical Draw. A clash of heads in round one caused a nasty cut to the corner of opponent Matthew Mallin’s right eye and the fight was halted.
The Dave Coldwell promoted fight-night featured nine contests in total.
On Saturday, at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, Jennifer Retzke of Berlin won the vacant Global Boxing Council Female Welterweight Title by outpointing Russian-born Angel McKenzie of Brixton, London.
The Acourtier Events promoted fight-night featured six undercard bouts.
Jon Kays of Ashton-under-Lyne out-pointed Kevin Hooper of Grimsby in a cracking contest to win the English Super-Featherweight Title.
The Steve Wood – VIP Boxing promoted fight-night at Oldham Sports Centre consisted of twelve fights in total.
Matchrooms’ Eddie Hearn hosted another great night of boxing at the O2 Arena, London, which featured four title bouts.
Scott Quigg of Bury retained his WBA World Super-Bantamweight Title scoring a Majority Draw against Cuban-born Yoandris Salinas of Miami, Florida.
Lee Selby of Barry, Wales, successfully defended his British and Commonwealth Featherweight Titles by Unanimous Points over Ryan Walsh of Cromer, Norfolk.
Kevin Mitchell of Dagenham scored a sixth round TKO over Marco Lopez of Mexico to win the vacant IBF Inter-Continental Lightweight Title.
And Tony Owen of Carshalton, London, won the BBBofC Southern Area Light Welterweight Title on Points (96-95) over Danny Connor of Hackbridge, Surrey.
Former Brit Boxer – Darren Askew (who now lives in Australia) won the Australia Queensland State Light-Welterweight Title by Unanimous Points over Mark Ramirez of Australia.
On Sunday, Terry Carruthers of Birmingham won the vacant BBBofC Midlands Area Light-Middleweight Title by outpointing Steve Spence of Scunthorpe. And Sam Eggington of Stourbridge won the vacant British Masters Silver Welterweight Title by seventh round TKO over Kevin McCauley of Brighton.
The PJ Rowson and Tommy Owens co-promoted fight-card at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston, featured ten fights in total.