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It is twelve months - almost to the day - since Denzel Bentley walked to the ring in Las Vegas to challenge Janibek Alimkhanuly for the WBO middleweight championship of the world. Bentley didn’t leave Sin City with a world title belt but he did come home with the confidence and self belief that he belongs at the highest level.
Nick Ball has been building an ever growing army of fans in Britain with his all action, ultra aggressive style. On Saturday night the unbeaten featherweight aims to make his mark on the world scene.
Adam Azim will be aiming to win the first major title of his professional career on Saturday night when he challenges for the European super lightweight title.
David Avanesyan will not be fighting Michael McKinson. Not this side of Christmas anyway. Hopefully, negotiations can be restarted early next year because it is a fight that make too much sense not to happen. Two welterweights who have found it difficult to tempt big names into the ring suddenly came to the realization that the best route back into world title contention ran through each other.
Even after everything she has achieved during her storied career, Katie Taylor finds herself in the midst of something new. The undisputed lightweight champion is putting the final touches to preparations for her rematch with Chantelle Cameron.
Overlooked and underappreciated or one of the best kept secrets in boxing? Within the space of 14 fights, Liam Davies has won and defended the English, British and European super bantamweight titles as well as a host of international belts. Still the man from Donnington receives a fraction of the attention that other less accomplished fighters are given.
Nathan Heaney’s travelling army of fans will take over the AO Arena in Manchester this weekend. The Stoke middleweight hand delivers the vast majority of the two thousand or so tickets he routinely sells and has forged personal relationships with many of his supporters. They will make the hour long journey north with that partisan belief that they are travelling to watch their friend coronated as the British middleweight champion.
Boxers will often tell you that they learn more from a single loss than a string of victories. Over the years, undisputed lightweight champion, Katie Taylor, has elevated herself to level reserved for an elite group of truly special boxers. The Irish hero was the standard bearer during women’s boxing’s rise to prominence. She has captured multiple world titles and the heart of a nation. Throughout it all, she remained undefeated.
Shabaz Masoud and Jose Sanmartin headlined tonight’s next NextGen card in Newcastle, finally meeting in a ten round super bantamweight fight. The pair were due to fight three weeks ago but Masoud was withdrawn during fight week after falling ill.
Newcastle - After a double quick debut last month, Cameron Vuong (2-0, 1 KO) got a real introduction to professional boxing from the unorthodox and awkward John Henry Mosquera (5-5, 1 KO).