Boxing News – July 25, 2019

Photos: SCOT T RAWSTHORNE/MTK GLOBAL

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SO SHARP:

Cameron [left]

dominates Basheel

ACTION

Roy

Kelly

RINGSIDE

★★★★ MAIN EVENT

★★★ UNDERCARD

★★★★ ATMOSPHERE

TAYLOR-MADE

BRENTWOOD

JULY 20

EXT stop Katie Taylor.

That is the four-

word synopsis

from Chantelle

Cameron’s

triumphant

night at the

Brentwood Centre, where she handed

a comprehensive beating to Anisha

Basheel in her WBC Silver lightweight

title defence.

While the big fellas were jostling for

position on the World Boxing Council’s

heavyweight title path a few miles to the

south west, Cameron was putting herself

in the front of the queue for the great

135lbs champion Taylor by winning this

final eliminator on MTK’s promotion.

It had the potential of being a banana-

skin. While not in Cameron’s calibre in

boxing terms, Basheel carries considerable

power as those who witnessed her brutal

stoppage of Sam Smith at York Hall last

year will testify.

However, “The Massacre” would

get nowhere near the undefeated

Northampton boxer, who won 100-

89 (from Christophe

Fernandez and Daniel

Van de Wiele) and 100-90

(Robin Dolpierre).

From the start,

Cameron dominated

her Malawi rival via her

jab and razor-sharp

two and three-punch

combinations.

Setting a ferocious

pace over the 10 two-

minute rounds, the Jamie

Moore-trained boxer was at her most

intense in the one-sided middle sessions.

In fact, you wondered how many

more shots Basheel could or should

take. Her corner clearly know her best

and, ultimately, they were vindicated as

she stayed on her feet, giving a spirited

account of herself late on. John Latham

refereed.

Shaquille Day produced a storming

second half to outpoint LouisAdolphe

over 10 rounds for the vacant Southern

Area welterweight belt.

This South London scrap might not

have thrilled the purists, but it kept

the audience gripped

throughout.

Day was on the front

foot from the off, only to

come up against a man on

the move, though when

Adolphe chose to engage,

his shots carried greater

authority.

At halfway, Adolphe

looked well in contention

but from the seventh Day

upped the tempo with

the tide very much with the unbeaten

Bexley fighter. And when his Wimbledon

opponent was docked a point for holding

in the eighth, Shaquille spun in delight at

the end of the round.

Louis was down twice in the ninth

and while he claimed a slip for the first,

N

Superb

eliminator

win moves

Chantelle

nearer Katie

CAMERON SET

A FEROCIOUS

PACE BUT

BASHEEL

STAYED ON

HER FEET