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Frankie Gavin has proven to be a slippery customer thus far in his pro career yet the light-welterweight prospect could not dodge the flu virus rocketing around the UK – a bout of flu forced him to pull out off a proposed fight against Wolverhampton’s Dean Harrison last weekend.
Hatfield hopeful Billy Joe Saunders has had a mixed 2010, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist went 2-0 (1) during this calendar year yet his progress has been hampered by a niggling hand injury, which kept him out of action between May’s points win over Andy Butlin and last Saturday’s stoppage win over veteran journeyman Tony Randell at the ECHO Arena, Liverpool.
Frank Maloney guided Rendall Munroe and Jason Booth to super-bantamweight world title tilts this year only to see both men fall short at the top level. Maloney, though, believes that his two 122lb charges can come back stronger, with Munroe especially well placed for a 2011 title shot should he string some wins together.
Enzo Maccarinelli’s world came apart in September when he found himself on the wrong end of a sickening seventh round KO to Alexander Frenkel at the LG Arena, Birmingham. ‘Big Mac’ lost his EBU title and the chance of a potential world title rematch with Denis Lebedev. The brutal KO, made that much worse by referee Erkki Meronen allowing a clearly dazed Maccarinelli to come out for more, led many to question whether Enzo should ever return to the ring.
Most call him 'Special K', others know him as 'Ezekiel', to some he is the 'Kid', but there is only one tag that Kell Brook wants for Christmas – 'WBO welterweight champion'. Brook (146½lb) moved a step closer to his goal of a vacant WBO title showdown against America's Mike Jones by casually dispatching Ghana's Philip Kotey (144½lb) at the ECHO Arena, Liverpool last night in defence of his WBO Inter-Continental title.
Matthew Macklin battled through the aftermath of a chest infection to register a bruising points win over Madrid's Ruben Varon at the ECHO Arena, Liverpool last night in the first defence of his EBU middleweight title. Macklin (160lb) hopes to fight consensus kingpin Sergio Martinez at some point; the Birmingham-born boxer is currently ranked at #6 by the WBO, 4th by the WBC and sixth in the latest Ring rankings yet he failed to sparkle in his maiden EBU defence.
Derek ‘Del Boy’ Chisora was left bitterly disappointed when Wlad Klitschko pulled out of their heavyweight world title fight at the eleventh hour due to a muscle tear. Rumor has it that Wlad will use this six week delay to set up a unification with David Haye in the spring, leaving Chisora, a shock title shot recipient in the first place, out in the cold. Derek, though, insists that he has a binding contract with the IBF, WBO and IBO world champion.
James DeGale challenges for Paul Smith's British super-middleweight crown at the ECHO Arena, Liverpool next Saturday night as he bids to emulate London rival George Groves, who won his first title, the Commonwealth belt, in his ninth fight. DeGale, 8-0 (6), believes that he will come through his toughest test to date to claim with the Lonsdale belt, although he expects to be pushed all the way by the champion.
Andreas Evensen believes that he can emulate Ricky Burns' title winning heroics when he faces the Scottish fighter for the WBO super-featherweight title at the Braehead Arena, Glasgow on Saturday. Evensen, 24, watched in wonderment as Burns ripped the belt from the heavily favoured Puerto Rican Roman Martinez in September; the Colombia-born, Norway-based challenger told the BBC that he has drawn inspiration from Ricky's win and will give him a taste of his own medicine come fight night.
Nottingham's Carl Froch and the Germany-based, Armenian-born Arthur Abraham brought some fistic fire to the cold country of Finland on Saturday night, as they fought for the WBC super-middleweight title vacated by Denmark's Mikkel Kessler. Froch lost his '0', and the WBC title, to the 'Great' Dane earlier this year; Abraham was also coming off his first career defeat after a controversial eleventh-round DQ reverse against Andre Dirrell back in March, Arthur clouted Dirrell with a right uppercut when the American was on his knees.