
Dan Azeez Stops Hosea Burton in Seven To Capture British Title
Dan Azeez claimed the vacant British light-heavyweight title as he stopped former champion Hosea Burton in the seventh round at Wembley Arena.

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Dan Azeez claimed the vacant British light-heavyweight title as he stopped former champion Hosea Burton in the seventh round at Wembley Arena.

Tyson Fury could make a voluntary defense early in the new year after the WBC decided against making Dillian Whyte the mandatory challenger for Fury’s heavyweight title at the convention in Mexico.

Former British light heavyweight champion Shakan Pitters produced a big right hand as he came from behind to stop Reece Cartwright in the eighth round of a rollercoaster ten-rounder in Coventry.

Kiko Martinez produced two huge right hands to knock out Kid Galahad in the sixth round and become a world champion again at the age of 35. The Spaniard claimed the IBF featherweight title in Sheffield, more than seven years after losing the IBF super-bantamweight title in Belfast.

Alycia Baumgardner unleashed a huge right hand to stop Terri Harper in the fourth round and win the WBC, IBO super featherweight title on the Galahad-Martinez bill in Sheffield.

Chris Billam-Smith made a successful first defense of his European cruiserweight title with a unanimous points decision over France’s Dylan Bregeon after a hard-fought 12 rounds on the Galahad-Martinez bill in Sheffield.

Dom Hunt was simply too big and too rangy for James Flint as he claimed the vacant Central Area welterweight title on the Galahad-Martinez undercard in Sheffield.

Terri Harper has learnt to live with the large scar on her right hand. It is a year since she has boxed after twice breaking her right hand. There is a smaller scar on her hip too, where the surgeon took some bone to piece together her hand with two metal plates. The important thing is that she is ready to box again.

It was the end of a long journey for Kid Galahad when he finally became a world champion in August. But in his moment of victory, the 31-year-old thought about the man who probably did more than anything to get him there – Brendan Ingle.

London heavyweight hope David Adeleye produced a solid display of heavy hitting as he stopped Dominik Musil, of the Czech Republic, to go 8-0 on Queensberry’s Prospects show at York Hall in East London.