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Sedgfield's Bradley Saunders has inked promotional a deal with Matchroom. It was reported last week that Frank Warren, his former promoter, had not renewed the 28-year-old's contract, which has allowed the former star amateur to join Eddie Hearn's stable of fighters.
Kenny Anderson's two-year UKAD ban expired at midnight on Friday, leaving the former British Super middleweight champion free to resume his career. Anderson, 18-1 (13), was sanctioned after testing positive for amphetamines following his fifth-round TKO win over former WBC world titlist Robin Reid in October 2012. He also had to forfeit his £15,000 purse.
The European Boxing Union (EBU) has revealed that their Super middleweight title is now vacant and will be contested by France's Hadillah Mohoumadi and Spain's Mariano Hilario in France on December 20th. George Groves, 20-2 (15), won the belt by out-pointing Christopher Rebrasse in London on September 20th; he fights Denis Doughlin for the WBC's Silver Super middleweight title on the undercard of Tony Bellew's rematch with Nathan Cleverly at Liverpool's Echo Arena on November 22nd.
When former light-heavyweight pro and amateur trainer Phil Martin, 14-6 (6), turned a building that had lain derelict for over a decade in the riot hit district of Moss Side into a boxing gym in 1982 few could have imagined just how far-reaching the impact of the Princess Park road-based gym, which he named Champs Camp, would become as it rose out of the ashes left by the two-days of rioting in July 1981. Two thousand pounds of personal savings and a few jumble sales provided Martin with the start-up money; he used this investment to create an high-tech environment for a conveyor belt of British champions—four of them held British titles simultaneously by 1993: Carl Thompson (cruiserweight), Frank Grant (middleweight), Maurice Core (light-heavyweight) and Paul Burke (lightweight).
Eddie Hearn of Matchroom tonight told Sky Sports that WBA bantamweight titlist Jamie McDonnell, 24-2-1 (11), will fight Tomoki Kameda, 30-0 (19), should the Japanese WBO title-holder successfully defend his title against Alejandro Hernandez in Chicago on Saturday night and McDonnell come through his next fight. McDonnell, 28, defends his title against Colombia's Walberto Ramos in Liverpool on the 22nd of November, a win will secure the Doncaster-based boxer a unification fight against his 23-year-old rival.
According to BoxingScene's sources, the November 22 rematch between Liverpool's Tony Bellew and Welshman Nathan Cleverly will not be a final eliminator for the WBO cruiserweight title, as the winner will have to fight a further eliminator contest before becoming mandatory challenger for the world title held by Germany's Marco Huck.
BoxingScene can confirm that the WBO have ratified Billy Joe Saunders, 20-0 (11), versus Chris Eubank Junior, 18-0 (13), as a final eliminator for the winner of Matt Kobolov and Andy Lee, who are set to contest the vacant middleweight WBO title on December 13. Saunders is putting his British and EBU 160lb titles on the line at London's Excel Arena on November 29th, and the winner will be lined up for a world title shot in 2015.
Anthony Ogogo's team has told BoxingScene that the 25-year-old prospect will not fight again until early 2015 following surgery on his Achilles tendons back in September. 'Anthony is working hard to get back to full fitness,' stated Duncan Ross, representing Ogogo. 'There is no specific timeline, but early 2015 is looking most likely'. Ogogo won Middleweight Bronze at the 2012 London Games and has motored to 7-0 (4) since turning over courtesy of a second-round TKO win over Kieron Gray in April 2013.
Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, 29-6-1 (14), reached out to BoxingScene earlier this month to call for a fight with Britain’s undefeated Olympic Super heavyweight Gold Medalist Anthony Joshua, 9-0 (9). The New Jersey-based boxer’s plea did not fall on deaf ears as Eddie Hearn, Joshua's promoter, has told The Daily Mail that Joshua versus Johnson could be lined up for a January date at London’s O2 Arena.
Black Flash Promotions got off to a flying start at the Middleton Arena on Saturday night with a six-fight show that saw Zelfa Barrett—the nephew of the show’s promoter, former British and European light-welterweight champion Pat Barrett—post his first professional win by out-pointing the experienced journeyman Kristian Laight over four-threes. Barrett (130lbs) used his sharper footwork to create angles for his shots, rather than just marching forward and trying to batter the guard of Laight (140lbs), a mistake that too many debutants make once the adrenaline kicks in.