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Cavan’s Andy Murray scored a 5th round TKO win over Oisin Fagan at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday night and then went onto declare that the best is yet to come. Murray, who moved to 18-0 (9 early), told the assembled press that his form is improving with each successive victory.
James DeGale moved to 6-0 (5 KOs) with a three knockdown, second round stoppage win over Matthew Barr at Wembley Arena, London last night, with the fighter himself expressing surprise over how powerfully he is punching in the pro ranks. DeGale told Sportinglife.com that trainer Jim McDonnell has been working on James’s power, with the results speaking for themselves thus far in his fledgling career.
The latest round of BBBoC championship news threw up an interesting contest or two. Carl Dilks, a recent Prizefighter contestant and Commonwealth title challenger, is set to take on rising prospect George Groves on the undercard of David Haye’s WBA heavyweight title defence against John Ruiz.
James DeGale has been likened to Marmite during his short professional career, fans either love his brash approach or baulk at his perceived arrogance. DeGale takes on Matthew Barr at the Wembley Arena this Saturday night and is fresh off a war of words with fellow hopeful George Groves, who recently challenged James to a fight on the Haye-Ruiz undercard.
Kevin Mitchell defends his WBO Inter-Continental title against Columbia’s Ignacio Mendoza on Saturday night and the Dagenham-based boxer has not been pulling any punches during the build up to the fight, which will take place at the Wembley Arena, London and is to be televised live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1.
Wayne Elcock’s British title dreams were left in tatters after he was forced to withdraw from a showdown with current incumbent Darren Barker last November. Elcock, 35, was KO’d by a bout of gastro enteritis yet Birmingham-based ‘Mad Dog’ believes that his experience and pedigree, not to mention sharing the same promoter, Mick Hennessy, as champion Barker, should be enough to put him in line for a shot at the 160lb crown.
Enzo Calzaghe is finding the business of boxing promotion much more testing than the training side of the sport. Enzo has announced that Calzaghe Promotions will be staging a bill in Cardiff this April but he also admitted that star names Gavin Rees and Bradley Pryce wouldn’t be on the bill, as Calzaghe cannot secure TV coverage for the event.
Ernie ‘Gypsy Boy’ Smith’s death last Friday saw British boxing lose one of its most valued journeymen. Smith has tested the likes of Jamie Cox, Gavin Rees, John O’Donnell, Kell Brook, and Nathan Cleverly in a 161-fight career, 13-142-5 (1). The 31-year-old Worcester man committed suicide last week aged only 31; his last contest was a TKO loss to Marlon Reid in June of last year.
Greater Manchester’s Andy Morris could be given a shock chance to fight for the British super-featherweight title. Boxingscene’s sources claim that the 26-year-old former British featherweight champion is set to face off against Leeds’s Gary Skyes, who defeated Anthony Crolla in a thrilling elimination contest last May.
By Terence Dooley - Emile Griffith was sat on the veranda of his biographer, Ron Ross’s, house in Long Island. The former fighter looked out across the water as random memories from his distinguished career washed up like arbitrary debris on the sands of his mind.