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Liverpool's Derry Mathews plans to shock boxing by beating European lightweight champion Gavin Rees in Newport on 1 October. Mathews, 28, who came out of retirement in 2010, knows he is the underdog against former WBA World Champion Rees.
Gavin Rees will defend his European Lightweight title against Derry Mathews at the Newport Centre in South Wales on Saturday 1 October.
Liverpool’s’ Derry Matthews continued his recent run of good form by stopping city rival Stephen Jennings in the sixth round of their vacant British Masters lightweight title meeting on a packed, raucous Stephen Vaughan-promoted show at the Green Bank Sports Centre, Liverpool on Saturday night.
John Murray could get a domestic showdown with Gavin Rees following his loss to Kevin Mitchell at the weekend.
As previously reported, European lightweight champion Gavin Rees was forced to pull out of his title defence against Derry Mathews, which was scheduled for Cardiff on the 23rd of July.
The European lightweight title clash between Gavin Rees and Derry Matthews is being postponed to September, according to promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport. The fight was scheduled for July 23 in Cardiff but Rees sustained an training injury and was forced to withdraw. Hearn will look for a date at the end of September, and Matthews may still go forward with a stay busy fight in the month of July on a different card.
Gavin Rees will defend his European Lightweight title against Liverpool’s Derry Mathews on July 23 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff.
Thomas Stalker admits he is motivated by the memory of Frankie Gavin's Beijing heartache as he bids to establish himself as a light-welterweight contender at this week's European Championships.
‘Dirty’ Derry Matthews registered a single stanza KO win over South Shields’s George Watson on Frank Maloney’s cracking card at Liverpool’s Olympia venue earlier tonight. A solid right hand sent the six-footer to the canvas early in the opener, the 27-year-old failed to beat the count of referee John Latham, possibly due to a broken nose.
Anthony Crolla stepped up to lightweight at short notice in February to win the vacant British belt with a stunning 9th round technical count out win over John Watson. ‘Million Dollar’ was a slight underdog going in against the rangy Liverpudlian but found that the rarified air of a title fight suited him right down to the ground.