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Curtis Woodhouse confounded expectations on Saturday night when taking former World Amateur Champion Frankie Gavin the distance at Liverpool’s ECHO Arena. Moreover, Woodhouse fought his way to a split decision loss despite pre-fight concerns that he would be taken apart by British boxing’s brightest hope.
Frankie Gavin, Tony Bellew and Ricky Burns all emerged victorious from Frank Warren’s ECHO Arena show on Saturday night yet the trio of fighters received mixed reviews after wins over Curtis Woodhouse, Ovill McKenzie and Nicky Cook respectively.
John Murray turned professional on the undercard of a John Sheppard-promoted Ringside bill in Huddersfield on September 6 2003. 2003 ABA featherweight champion Kevin Mitchell made his way into the paid ranks two months earlier with a knockout on the underside of David Barnes’s controversial point’s win over Jimmy Vincent.
Liverpool light-heavyweight Tony Bellew hopes to underline his dominance over Ovill McKenzie when the two men fight a rematch at the ECHO Arena, Liverpool on Saturday night. Bellew stopped McKenzie at 2:46 of round eight last December only for controversy to rage over the timing of the decision. Frank Warren has brought the two men back together again in a match-up that is guaranteed to provide excitement.
Top Manchester trainer Joe Pennington takes his charge Craig Watson into a high-pressure rematch with Colchester’s Lee Purdy at the Oldham Sports Centre on Saturday night. Purdy, 24, stopped Watson in five rounds to register a shocking upset on the undercard of Amir Khan’s WBA light-welterweight title defence against Paul McCloskey on April 4.
Tony Bellew hit the deck hard and heavily during the second round of his December 11th Commonwealth light-heavyweight title showdown with Ovill McKenzie, a huge right hand depositing the former trainee accountant face first onto the canvas, his second knockdown of the night. Bellew beat the count, swore at himself and then raged his way back into the fight before pulling out an eighth round TKO win.
‘Genius’ Joe Murray enjoyed a joyful June. The 24-year-old picked up his first title when decisioning Scotland’s James Ancliff for the vacant IBF Youth Featherweight belt then signed a contract extension with Hatton Promotions. Much to the delight of Ricky Hatton himself, the former undisputed light-welterweight champion has a lot of faith in his sole Olympian.
Poland’s Piotr Wilczewski has confirmed that he will defend his EBU super-middleweight belt against London’s James DeGale on September 17th. ‘Wilk’ won the vacant strap courtesy of an eleventh round TKO over Amin Asikainen in March and will be making his maiden defence.
WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (18-0, 14 KOs) shared his thoughts and feelings about the recent heavyweight unification between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye and about the future of the sport’s glamour division with Allboxing.ru.
Anthony Farnell was a come forward brawler during his 37 fight career, 33-4 (20). ‘Arnie’, however, has adopted a laidback approach as a coach as he has to be the cool head in the corner when his fighters are out earning their corn.