**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing The third title fight of the night at Nottingham on Friday was the English Light Welterweight title clash between ‘Super Scotty’ Haywood of Derby and Dean ‘Deano’ Harrison of Wolverhampton. It was a close evenly matched contest between these two with nothing between them in the early…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Matthew Hatton v Scott Woolford 8 x 3 Welterweight Contest This was to be Hattons’ first fight under new trainer Lee Beard. Having suffered a defeat to Craig Watson in May, Hatton now fights out of Bobby Rimmer’s Boxing Academy. It was a tough, close contest, Woolford…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, Rendall “2Tone” Munroe made his second defense of the European Super Bantamweight title against Arsen Martirosian, a France-based Armenian, on a Maloney Promoted fight night billed as ‘Working Class Hero’. This was to be the first…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, Frank Maloney hosted the second of three title fights. This was the scheduled English Lightweight title fight between John ‘Fireball’ Fewkes and Martin Gethin. Fewkes had a nightmare Thursday when weighing in ahead of the clash….
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, undefeated Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Amir Khan suffered a sensational first round knockout at the hands of Colombian slugger Breidis Prescott for the WBO Intercontinental crown. The end came for Khan inside the first minute of round…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Yesterday, at the smart Gateway Hotel in Nottingham, England, promoter Frank Maloney hosted the weighin ahead of the Friday Fightnight at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham. Billed as ’Working Class Hero’ the fight night boasts three title fights. Top of the ’bill’ boxing binman, Rendall Munroe, defends…
Having beaten Ireland’s Darren Sullivan to win a place in the middleweight final – Great Britain’s James DeGale’s confidence soared and it seemed there was no stopping the Sheffield man. DeGale’s final showdown came against Cuban – Emilio Correa. In the opening half minute – DeGale scores first against Correa. Boxing well – DeGale is…
Tony Jeffries fought Hungarian Imre Szello in the quarter-final of the light heavyweight Division this week and his was the third time that Jeffries had been up against Szello – having beaten him by one point recently. It was a decent first round for both men, with Jeffries ahead by 2-1 at end of the…
Liverpudlian David Price faced Lithuanian Jaroslav Jaksto in the super heavyweight quarter-final this week at Worker’s Gymnasium at the Beijing Olympics. A relaxed Price – who lost to Jaroslav four years ago – scored the first point with a left and moments later notched up a second. Jaksto hobbled off at the end of round…
Despite the disappointment of Team Great Britain’s Khalid Yafai’s defeat yesterday at the hands of Cuba’s flyweight Andris Lafitta by a score of 9-3, James DeGale put in a great effort as he faced US ‘favourite’ Shawn Estrada in the second round of the Middleweight division. Neither man scored in the first frame, but DeGale…
On Friday night, Hennessy Sports and The Fight Network promoted a 10 round non-title middleweight contest between “Dazzling” Darren Barker of London, England and iron-chinned Canadian Larry “Razor” Sharpe at the River Cree Resort in Enoch, Alberta, Canada. Undefeated Barker, the Commonwealth Middleweight Champion, was looking for his eighteenth win but veteran southpaw Sharpe lets…
Having a first round bye, light heavyweight Tony Jeffries faced Colombian Eleider Alvarez on Thursday. It was a steady opening round as both men sussed each other out, but neither scored a point in the initial stanza. Jeffries finally gets the first point with almost a minute of round two gone. A short left followed…