Latest Championship news from the BBBoC by Kevin Taylor Jun 14th 2007

Once again there are some exciting fights on the latest championship release from the BBBoC, including Jon Thaxton meeting former British champion Graham Earl in Norwich in August. Purse bids for Thaxton-Earl were won by Hennessy Sports and the fight will take place on August 3rd at the Norwich Showground where Thaxton stopped brave challenger Scott Lawton last time out. Tony Oakey will have to travel to his opponent's backyard after Dennis Hobson won the purse bids to stage the British light-heavyweight title bout.  The fight against Brian Magee will take place in Belfast on Saturday 25th August. Jamie Moore will go over old ground when he takes on Andrew Facey again at the Robin Park Arena on the 26th October for Moore's light-middleweight title. Colin Lynes will face David Barnes in his first defence of his British title, the fight will go to purse bids on the 11th July and the bout has to take place before the end of November. In English title news, English champion Tony Dodson will meet Matthew Barney at the Everton Park Sports Centre on Friday 19th October after bids were won by Matchroom Sports. Lenny Daws and Nigel Wright are set to square off again this time for Wright's English title after Daws beat Wright in a British title fight back in May 2006, purse bids will take place on 11th July, also on this day bids are due for Steve Bell vs. Femi Fehintola, Marc Callaghan vs. Rendall Munroe and Jamie McDonnell vs. Lee Haskins. Carl Froch will get his wish of a European title fight with purse bids for his super-middleweight showdown with Christian Sanavia taking place on September 1st. The much-hyped heavyweight Roman Greenberg could face Oleg Platov for the EE-EU title. In Celtic championships fights Martin Watson will fight Gary Buckland in Newport on the 5th October and Kevin O'Hara and Darren Johnstone could face each other for the vacant super-featherweight title after purse bids were called for the 11th July.

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