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Denzel Bentley will take a brief break from his own fight preparations this weekend and pay close attention to the middleweight unification battle between WBO champion, Janibek Alimkhanuly, and his IBF counterpart, Vincenzo Gaultieri.
Michael Conlan has rung the changes ahead of his latest assault on the featherweight division. Conlan suffered a stunning fifth round knockout at the hands of IBF featherweight champion, Luis Alberto Lopez, in May but the two-time Olympian remains as determined as ever to win a world title.
Michael McKinson has spent months waiting for his phone to ring. On Wednesday, the welterweight contender got a nice surprise. Suddenly, he was inundated with notifications as people tagged him into a BoxingScene.com article in which the world ranked David Avanesyan all but agreed to take him on in a crossroads fight.
David Avanesyan is plotting a route back into world title contention and the 35 year old Armenian is ready to return to some productive hunting grounds. Avanesyan (29-4-1, 17 KO’s) trains in Newark, Nottinghamshire and has spent a good part of his career fighting in Britain.
Josh Warrington’s manager, Steve Wood, is still replaying the events of Saturday night. With his man well on the way to becoming a three-time featherweight world champion, Wood watched on helplessly as Leigh Wood salvaged his WBA title with a stunning and controversial seventh round stoppage.
David Avanesyan is rested, recuperated and ready for another assault on the welterweight division. The former European and WBA Interim welterweight champion has been relaxing at home in Russia but is now eager to return to action.
Veteran trainer Brian 'Bomac' McIntyre is free to return home to America. McIntyre pleaded guilty to two firearms offences and was given a 20-month suspended prison sentence at a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court. The sentence is suspended for a period of two years.
By John Evans - WBA featherweight champion, Leigh Wood, produced an incredible finish to stop Josh Warrington in the seventh round of a firefight in Sheffield. Tired, hurt, frustrated and trailing on points, Wood dug deep and conjured up a savage right hook to salvage his title and cruelly end Warrington’s dreams of becoming a three-time featherweight champion.
Terri Harper and Ceclia Braekhus were supposed to meet back in May. The fight fell through on the morning of the fight after Baekhus woke up with flu like symptoms but they finally got in the ring tonight in Sheffield. Harper’s WBA super welterweight title and the vacant WBO belt were on the line.
Sheffield - On paper, the British middleweight title eliminator between Kieron Conway (20-3-1, 5 KO’s) and Linus Udofia (18-2, 9 KO’s) looked like being a drawn out, nip and tuck battle. In truth, Conway barely needed to get out of second gear.