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Marc Leach earned himself a shot at British super bantamweight champion Brad Foster as he upset former amateur star Qais Ashfaq, dropping him twice on the way to winning a unanimous points decision in their ten-round eliminator on Matchroom’s Peterborough show.
Thomas Patrick Ward lost his 100 percent record but looked luck to escape with a technical draw after his fight with Thomas Essomba on the Matchroom show in Peterborough was stopped in the ninth round after Ward suffered a terrible cut in a head clash.
The question was barely finished when Lewis Ritson roared his prediction. “Taylor,” he said in answer to who will win the fight between Josh Taylor and Jose Ramirez for the undisputed world super-lightweight title. Ritson has sparred Taylor twice recently, but he says he did not need that to be convinced the Scot is the best in the division.
Josh Warrington’s featherweight unification fight with Xu Can could still go ahead in December, with Eddie Hearn confident that there will be three belts on the line for the match.
Tyson Fury is being lined up to defend his WBC heavyweight title on December 5 at the Royal Albert Hall in London after Fury and his team walked away from a third fight with Deontay Wilder.
Liam Williams, the WBO’s No 1 middleweight contender, needed just 88 seconds to get rid of Andrew Robinson to retain his British title at the BT Studios in London. It was a left hook to the body that sunk Robinson to the floor, where he was counted out by referee Marcus McDonnell, but Robinson looked both confused and annoyed after suffering a bad clash over his left eye from a clash of heads moments earlier, which sparked Williams’s desire to stop it early.
Nathan Gorman got back to winning ways as he ground out a messy ten-round points decision over Richard Lartey in a Commonwealth heavyweight title eliminator at the BT Studios. Gorman did the better work throughout, but too often it was a case of jab and grab. Referee Bob Williams ticked both off for holding, but it was Gorman who looked the more guilty and Lartey the one who got more and more frustrated.
Jack Catterall has agreed a step-aside deal to allow Josh Taylor and Jose Ramirez to box for the undisputed world super lightweight title. Catterall is the longstanding WBO mandatory contender and had told he would get his shot at Ramirez, the WBO and WBC champion, next.
Scottish prospect Willy Hutchinson came through what looked to be the toughest test of his professional career to date as he blitzed Jose Miguel Fandino in only 2:49 of the first round at the BT Sport Studios in London.
Liam Williams may not have got the world-title shot he has craved for years in 2020, but he says that he is feeling like a lucky man. Williams puts his British middleweight title on the line against Andrew Robinson at the BT Sport Studios in East London on Saturday night, not the fight he wanted, but after all that has happened this year, he is glad to be boxing at all.