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Steve Bunce has thrown his weight behind Martin Rogan’s bid to regain the Commonwealth heavyweight title. Rogan lost the title to Sam Sexton in eight controversial rounds back in May. Martin, 38, has since had a shake-up on the training side of things – joining up with Paul McCullagh. The rematch will take place at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast on November the 6th.
Barry Hearn picked Danny Williams to win last weeks "Prizefighter: The Heavyweights III" tournament, only to see his pick crash out in the very first contest. Audley Harrison went onto scoop the title with solid wins over Scott Belshaw, Danny Hughes and Coleman Barrett; lesson learned, Hearn now predicts that ‘Big Aud’ will fight for a world title by 2011.
John Murray went into Saturday night’s fight with Jon Thaxton with two things on his mind. The first thing was Thaxton, obviously, and the second was keeping alive the dream of one day facing Michael ‘The Great’ Katsidis, who is the current WBO Interim title holder at lightweight.
Three times ABA winner Terry Marsh was chatting to BoxingScene.com about everything under the sun. On this occasion, however, there was little boxing talk, forcing me to dip into my prior interviews with Marsh, finding boxing views within them that had not seen the light of day. I then intermixed them with our most recent discussions on the sport.
Jon Thaxton has announced that he will retire from the sport of boxing following his fourth-round stoppage defeat to John Murray on Saturday night. Thaxton was bidding to regain the British lightweight title but was unable to cope with Murray’s strength, persistence and boxing ability.
John Duddy has vowed that he will better than ever when he returns to action at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Duddy, 30, was being carefully guided towards a world title before the wheels came off in April after a points defeat to Billy Lyell.
BoxingScene.com caught up with former IBF light-welterweight title holder Terry Marsh to discuss Terry’s life and boxing career, during the early part of our conversations Marsh mixed the boxing talk with ruminations on his testy attitude towards authority figures, an attitude that was forged during his post-boxing ordeal, when he was charged with the attempted murder of Frank Warren.
Danny Williams is close to announcing his retirement from the sport of boxing after suffering the ignominy of defeat at the hands of a relative novice in Carl Baker. Williams, 36, lost in the quarterfinals of the Prizefighter tournament last Friday night, he was floored twice and dropped a three-round decision to his opponent, who is not in Danny’s class.
Tony Jeffries appears for the third time in his beloved Sunderland next Friday night when he takes on Belarus’ Artem Solomko at the Seaburn Centre. Jeffries, 24, is 3-0 (3) and the Olympic bronze medallist has a glittering pro career ahead of him.
Audley Harrison has told his critics that he will not let their barbed remarks derail his quest for world domination. Audley, 37, won last Friday’s Prizefighter: The Heavyweights III crown; he hopes that the victory will kick-start his disappointing career.