In the light of the demolition of Lee Meager at the hands of John Murray for the British title, another new addition to BBN's writing staff, Allan Williams, assesses the British Lightweight scene - by far the most interesting domestic division.
Dudley’s Jamie Ball goes into his second professional contest this week with ambitions of replicating the feats of the town’s most famous fighting son.
Tshifhiwa Munyai, the six foot bantamweight that has defeated the likes of Martin Power and Lee Haskins over here, was floored and convincingly outpointed by little-known Ghanaian Osumanu Akaba. Referee Jeff Hinds scored 79-75 in favour of the man from Accra.
The career of the Brixton Bomber nearly crash landed on Friday night (July 18th) in Dagenham as the reigning British heavyweight champion survived three deductions and a nightmare fifth round to squeeze past mandatory challenger John McDermott via a majority decision.
Liverpool’s former WBU world champion Derry Mathews got himself back on track on Saturday (19/7/08) with a win over previously unbeaten Kenyan champion John Gicheru.
Willie Limond has an opportunity to appear in New York's Madison Square Garden and may possibly miss out on a world title eliminator with Graham Earl, in order to box on the undercard of Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jnr.
Irish prospects Andy Lee and Paul McCloskey share the limelight this weekend (Saturday 19th July) when they both face off against good quality tests in the University Arena, Limerick.
For once the WBC withdrew from the brink and almost showed some sense. Whilst no one likes to see a fighter win the way that Francisco Lorenzo did against Humberto Soto in the fight for the interim WBC super-featherweight title, the decision given in the fight was a disqualification win for Lorenzo.
Undefeated boxer Akaash "Kash The Bash" Bhatia is one of Britain's top prospects and the red hot featherweight will be in action tonight, Friday, July 18, on the eagerly anticipated bill of Danny Williams vs. John McDermott for the British heavyweight title at Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham.
Tomorrow night (18 July) in Dagenham sees Frank Maloney’s latest card topped by Danny Williams defending against mandatory challenger John McDermott for the British Heavyweight title.
Mention the name Matt Scriven to most boxing fans and they will say "Oh, yes the journeyman from Nottingham, but Matt obviously has a lot more strings on his bow than that.
Nadeem Siddique entered his Friday night showdown with Martin Gethin heavily burdened by fierce criticism. This criticism centred on his over inflated ring record of 22-0 (6), the record he took into the fight.
Rewind nearly three months to the evening of April 5th and Derry Mathews found that he was picking up not only himself from the canvas but also the pieces of his flourishing career.