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Tyson Fury has been quiet since his rematch win over ‘Big’ John McDermott on June 25th, he recently revealed that he is putting the trash talk to one side in a bid to be taken seriously. Fury, 22, told Paul Foley of Boxrec News that his constant chat was a ploy, a means of getting himself noticed by the fans; with the job now well and truly done, Tyson has vowed to let his fists do the talking.
John Murray will defend his EBU lightweight title here in Manchester on Saturday the 25th of September against the Ukraine’s Andriy Kudriavtsev. Boxingscene’s sources claim that the fight will be promoted by Matchroom, who promoted Murray’s European title win over Gary Buckland back in May.
Billy Graham spends a lot of time at his home/training base in Georgia these days but the veteran trainer still likes to keep an eye on the UK fight scene. One fight that has caught the eye of ‘The Preacher’ is Jason Booth’s IBF super-bantamweight showdown with Canada’s Steve Molitor at the Rainton Meadows Arena, Tyne and Wear on September the 11th. Graham has long-admired the skill and savvy of Booth, 32, he watched Jason come through the ranks.
Manchester’s Matthew Hatton looks to consolidate his position in the world welterweight rankings when defending his European title against Yuriy Nuzhnenko at the Bolton Arena on Friday night. ‘Magic’ won the vacant belt by defeating Italy’s experienced warhorse Gianluca Branco in Dagenham back in March. It was Hatton’s second fight under new trainer Bob Shannon. Their first fight together, a fifth round TKO over Mikheil Khutsishvili, saw Shannon step in at late notice when Matthew’s previous trainer, Lee Beard, decided to travel to the USA to work with Juan Guzman.
Frank Maloney is in good cheer after inking a two-year, twenty-plus fight contract with Sky Sports. Still, things have not been easy for Frank over the past nine months, the suicide of Darren Sutherland in early-September of last year was a bitter blow, it was closely followed by Maloney’s heart attack at the first Tyson Fury-John McDermott encounter on September the 14th, the final straw came in December when Frank was criticised by Sky TV for the non-performance of two of his imports, Dmitrijs Basovs and Andrejs Tolstihs, who both fell in a single session to David Price and Tony ‘Jaffa’ Jeffries respectively.
Lennox Lewis’ second ascent to the heavyweight undisputed world championship began with an arid beat down of the erratic, hard-hitting Lionel Butler in May of 1995. Don King, who was licking his lips in anticipation of Mike Tyson’s second coming, dismissed Lewis as a safety-first fighter, a man too concerned with the sweet science of the sport to engage the boxing public.
Curtis Woodhouse has fractured his left hand and will be unable to take part in the proposed fight with Frankie Gavin in Birmingham on September the 18th. Gavin, 7-0(6KOs), will still appear on the bill and is now in the market for a new opponent.
Leicester’s Rendall Munroe is one fight away from world title glory; the super-bantamweight is the mandatory challenger for Toshiaki Nishioka’s WBC crown and is waiting on a date for his big night. The champion’s team hold all the aces in negotiations, with Frank Maloney today revealing to Boxingscene that Rendall might have to travel to Japan for the fight. Munroe, though, believes that he is genuine world class and can wrest the title away from the 33-year-old’s grasp.
Undercard action from Frank Maloney’s Doncaster Dome bill saw prospects Liam Cameron, from Sheffield, and Rick Godding, from Bolton, both step up successfully against testing foes. Cameron, 19, had cruised to wins over Matt Scriven, Ryan Clarke, Kevin McCauley and Alex Spitko, his sole stoppage win thus far in his career, but knew he would have to tread carefully against Birmingham’s erratic Dee Mitchell, who raced to 6-0 upon turning pro only to lose his way after losing by injury-stoppage to Gatis Skuja in 2007.
Drillfield’s Curtis Woodhouse had told BoxingScene that he would use Friday night’s Frank Maloney-promoted fight against fierce rival Stefy Bull as a chance to show the British public that not all their sportsmen are as meek and mild as the national football team. Woodhouse, a former Premiership footballer, traded kicking for punching back in 2006 and has since built up a solid record whilst learning on the job.