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**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Aston Sports Centre in Birmingham, England, Matchroom Sports and First Team Promotions hosted a fight night, headlined by Rob Norton vs. David Dolan, which also saw an action-packed undercard. Wolverhampton boxer Dean Harrison enjoyed big support when he …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Aston Sports Centre in Birmingham, England, Matchroom Sports and First Team Promotions hosted a fight night headlined by the cruiserweight clash between Rob Norton of Stourbridge and David Dolan of Sunderland. This will be Norton’s first defence of …

**With Massive Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Promoter Steve Wood put on a great fight night on Saturday at The Tower in Blackpool, England, featuring some of the best up and coming talent in the North-West. Light middleweight Nick Quigley outpointed opponent Jimmy Briggs in a six round …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night saw some great under-card action on the Hennessy bill from Robin Park Arena in Wigan, England, headlined by the John Murray vs. Lee McAllister British Lightweight title fight. “Lightening” Lenny Daws faced Latvian boxer Sergejs Savrinovics in a ten round …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan, England, Hennessy Sports hosted a fight night which saw Manchester’s John Murray successfully defend his British Lightweight title for the first time in a gruelling contest against ‘Aberdeen Assassin’ Lee McAllister. A sea …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Thursday night at the Dublin City University in Ireland, Frank Maloney hosted a fight night billed as ʽOut to Conquer the World!ʼ which would showcase Irish Olympic Bronze Medal winner Darren Sutherland in his first professional contest. Also on the bill – …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There were two other ʽtitleʼ fights on Saturday night at the Brentwood Centre, Essex, as Brian Magee faced Stevie McGuire for the vacant British Super Middleweight belt and Lee Purdy met Peter McDonagh for the British Southern Area Light Welterweight crown. Irish-born …

© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night, at the Nottingham Trent Arena in England, on a Hennessy Sports promoted fight night – Carl ʽThe Cobraʼ Froch won the WBC Super Middleweight title by unanimous points decision, defeating Canadian Jean Pascal in what was a ʽfantasticʼ twelve rounds of boxing. …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England, Glyn Rhodes hosted a four-contest fight-night, headlined by a ten-round light middleweight contest between local-man Lee “Errol” Edwards and Leeds boxer Lee Murtagh. This was to be Edwards’s first defence of the …

Saturday, November 15 saw David Haye embark on his heavyweight quest. Across the Irish Sea, a slighter gladiator was treading water, with the prospect of a super bantamweight world title lying somewhere over the horizon. Bernard Dunne carried out his training camp in preparation for the rugged Eduardo Garcia. Garcia …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There might have been a super-fight in Las Vegas last night – but here in the UK in our own ʽVegasʼ of the North, (albeit mainly slot-machines taking pennies and twenty pences!), Blackpool Tower played host to another action-packed bill from promoter …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There was a good crowd at the Heritage Hotel in Derby, England on Sunday as Clifton Mitchell hosted an afternoon of boxing billed as ’50/50′. Originally an all-ladies boxing event – the usual difficulties in getting ‘match-ups’ in the UK meant that …