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Kieron Conway showed that he was worthy of a place among a good group of British super-welterweights with a unanimous ten-round points win over Navid Mansouri at Eddie Hearn’s Fight Camp.
Rising Scottish super-middleweight John Docherty extended his unbeaten record to nine fights as he stopped Anthony Fox in the seventh round of the show-opener on Eddie Hearn’s third Fight Camp show. The highlight of Docherty’s amateur career was a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, having beaten the highly-touted Benjamin Whittaker in the quarter-final. The southpaw carries plenty of power, although he left himself a bit open at times.
Josh Taylor is being lined up to make the delayed defence if his WBA and IBF super-lightweight titles against Apinun Khongsong in September in London. Taylor looks likely to be one of the headliners when BT Sport unveils the second wave of its behind-closed-doors shows, as they seek to bring more high-level stars to the shows.
Tyson Fury could fight behind-closed-doors this year if his third fight with Deontay Wilder is pushed back. Fury had been expected defend his WBC heavyweight title against Wilder on December 19 at the new Las Vegas Raiders stadium. But Bob Arum, Fury’s US promoter, has recently talked up the possibility of the fight moving back if no crowd is allowed.
Carl Frampton admits one of the reasons he is still boxing is that he is driven to prove himself a better boxer than his former mentor Barry McGuigan. Frampton, a former two-weight world champion, hopes he will get the chance to become a triple world champion by facing Jamel Herring, the WBO super-featherweight champion, later this year.
Terri Harper kept hold of her WBC, IBO super featherweight titles with a draw against Natasha Jonas in a whirlwind ten-rounder that headlined Eddie Hearn’s second Fight Camp show but could elevate women's boxing in the UK to a new level.
Anthony Fowler handed a painful one-sided beating to Adam Harper in their super-welterweight ten-rounder, winning every second of every round until it was finally stopped at the midway point of the seventh round.
Hopey Price recorded the third win of his fledgling professional career as he recorded a one-sided points victory over Jonny Phillips in a featherweight six-rounder on the Fight Camp card.
Chris Billam-Smith made short work of Nathan Thorley in the first defence of his Commonwealth cruiserweight title, flooring the Welshman three times on the way to a second-round stoppage.
Terri Harper is loving every second of being a world champion. You know she is, she tells you all the time. Harper won the WBC super-featherweight title in February and makes her first defence against Natasha Jonas on Eddie Hearn’s Fight Camp show in Essex on Friday. And having gone from unknown to Britain’s leading female boxer in a short time takes some getting used to.