Boxing News – June 27, 2019

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FULL RESULTS

Reece Mould (125lbs 6oz), 12-0 (6), w tco 4

Sean Davis (125 1/2lbs), 14-3; Lewis Sylvester

(138lbs 5oz), 3-0, w pts 4 Ibrar Riyaz (141lbs),

6-163-4 (3); Sonny Taylor (202lbs), 2-0 (1),

w pts 4 Dmitrij Kalinovskij (197 1/2lbs), 13-55-

(5); Jack Daniel (125lbs), 4-0 (2), w pts 4 Brett

Fidoe (127lbs), 13-52-5 (6); CallumSimpson

(181lbs), 1-0, w pts 4 Elvis Dube (190lbs),

8-76-2 (5); James Rayworth (155lbs 5oz), 1-0,

w pts 4 ZygimantasButkevicius (155lbs), 2-22;

TaylorWatkins (143lbs 5oz), 1-0, w pts 4 Luke

Middleton (146lbs 5oz), 2-5.

FULL

RESULTS

Nathan Heaney (159lbs

10oz), 7-0 (2), w pts

10 Tom Stokes (

1/4lbs), 11-3 (1); Rob

Hunt (152lbs 14oz),

26-5-2 (3), w pts 4

MJ Hall (149lbs 14oz),

0-39 (2); Luke Caci

(167lbs 6oz), 8-0 (1),

w ko 5 Bryn Wain (

1/4lbs), 0-27; Connor

Parker (144lbs 10oz),

11-0 (1), w pts 4 Des

Newton (145lbs 6oz),

7-7 (2); Liam Davies

(124lbs 10oz), 4-

(1), w pts 4 Edward

Bjorklund (

1/4lbs), 1-22-1 (1).

NATHAN NICKS IT

ONLY rarely do Area title fights fail to
deliver and this one, for the vacant
Midlands Area middleweight belt at
a noisy Kings Hall, certainly didn’t
disappoint. Local favourite Nathan
Heaney edging home 96-94 on the card
of referee-for-the-night Kevin Parker at
the conclusion of a 10-round cracker
against West Bromwich’s Tom Stokes.

With things seemingly level after two

rounds, unbeaten Heaney made the

breakthrough in the third, staggering Tom

momentarily with a clubbing right. But

the West Brom man came roaring right

back in the very next round when he

slammed home a short yet telling left of

his own.

By the eighth the see-saw contest

looked to have swung towards the

muscular Stoke man by the narrowest

of margins and with precious little to

choose between the two warriors down

the final straight it he was he who hung

on to take the win at the conclusion of a

great scrap.

The only scheduled six on the

undercard failed to run its allotted

distance when middleweight Luke Caci

from Newcastle-under-Lyme, already

four rounds to the good against Yeovil’s

still-winless Bryn Wain, completed the

job one second short of the midway

point in the penultimate stanza, the

visitor showing no inclination to rise

from one knee after being dropped by

a right.

None of the remaining fours saw a

round conceded by the home boxers,

most impressive of whom was Telford’s

Liam Davies, who twice floored

heavier London-based Swede Edward

Bjorklund. A hard right did the trick in

the third and a similar shot late in the

last saw Edward counted after touching

down.

Mr Parker scored that one 40-34 but

rightly adjudged the two remaining

matches as shut-outs. Stafford’s Rob

Hunt, in his first outing for almost a

year, seeing off Brierley Hill’s MJ Hall

and Derbyshire’s Connor Parker, who

picked up a cut by the right eye along

the way, doing likewise against game

Devonian Des Newton.

THE VERDICTFor the second

successive week Potteries fight

fans get their money’s worth.

Stokes edged out in a thriller

★★★ WHOLE SHOW

★★★★ ATMOSPHERE

★★★ WHOLE SHOW

★★★★ ATMOSPHERE

Photo: ACTION IMAGES/ED SYKES

Andy Whittle

RINGSIDE

REECE IS

THE WORD

IT looked as if an early night was
on the cards in the Lazarus Suite at
Doncaster Racecourse when in a clash
for the vacant English featherweight title
unbeaten local Reece Mould [pictured]
floored Birmingham’s Sean Davis twice
inside the opening round.
While the gutsy Brummie then
proceeded to give as good as he got in
the next, the dying embers of the third
saw him not only cut by the right eye but
down again seconds before the bell.
That early night was looming again
and this time it wasn’t long in coming

• a left to the head, virtually the first
  punch of the fourth session, sent Sean
  over backwards and prompted referee
  Howard Foster to wave it off without
  taking up a count as the towel came in.
  Just 12 seconds had elapsed.
  No fewer than three Yorkshiremen

STOKE-ON-TRENT

JUNE 21

DONCASTER

JUNE 22

Andy Whittle watches Mould

get the job done impressively

found themselves punching for pay for

the first time and while all emerged

distance winners over four, the margins

of their respective victories varied from

wide to narrow.

Local referee Mike Alexander oversaw

the one-sided contest between wildly

popular Barnsley light-heavy Callum

Simpson and Derby veteran Elvis

Dube, the new start working off the jab

and slamming home several big early

rights. He then slowed the pace a little

en route to a shut-out win after realising

midway through that Elvis wasn’t going

to wilt.

The same official gave Sheffield super-

welter James Rayworth a 39-37 win

over Hull’s Zygimantas Butkevicius,

who on another day might just have

earned a share.

Darren Sarginson scored local first-

timer Taylor Watkins a narrow 39-

winner over tattooed Worksop welter

Luke Middleton.

The same official notched three 40-

scorelines for the remaining bouts on

the card.

Hull’s Lewis Sylvester got the better

of Reading’s Ibrar Riyaz, comebacking

Leeds stylist Jack Daniel called the

shots against Evesham’s Brett Fidoe

and a second Hull resident, one-fight

novice Sonny Taylor, bested Lithuania’s

Dmitrij Kalinovskij, though there

wasn’t a deal of daylight between the

pair in any of the rounds.

THE VERDICTOdds-on favourite

romps home in the 10pm at

Doncaster.