Rapport: Gianluca Di Caro

Normalt er det enten en Fredag eller Lørdag nat, at jeg får min regelmæssige fix
af pugilistic handling, denne uge om det var lidt anderledes, da jeg lavede
turen fra London til Leeds søndag morgen, in order to catch the latest offering from former Irish Champion, vendte promotor, Lee Murtagh.

I betragtning af det var en Søndag eftermiddag / aften show, Jeg var mægtigt
overrasket, eller er så imponeret, at da jeg ankom til spillestedet, a good couple of hours before the advertised start time, it was already more or less full to capacity.

Må sige Leeds fans virkelig vide at nyde selv, den
atmosfære på Pryzm Nightclub var elektrisk, so no surprise that when the highly entertaining MC, Hr. Tony Dean, announced each of the boxers that the crowd vociferously showed their support, not just of the home fighters but they also made the opponents welcome too, which makes a nice change.

Hovednavn showet var lokale favorit Sam Smith, who was making her pro debut, mod Letlands Jekaterina Lecko.

Fra off både piger flyttede til tage center ring, tentatively boxing off the back of their jabs, after about twenty seconds or so Lecko decided to step it up a tad, throwing a good stiff jab immediately followed by a looping right to the head, Smith closed her guard just enough to catch the shot on her glove, før optagelse ud en lige højre, which caught the Latvian flush.

Smith lukket igen og lad rip med en stor ret til kroppen og en venstre
til hovedet, Fecko forsøgte at stå sin jorden, men Smith kom selv
stærkere tvinger den lettiske tilbage mod tovene.

Oprindeligt Fecko brugte sin jab med stor effekt for at holde Smith i skak, men
around the forty five second mark Smith slipped under the jab and let rip with a huge shot to the body, quickly followed by another to the head that shook the Latvian girl to the core.

Smith flyttede lige ind for at dræbe, kaster et væld af store skud,
leaving Fecko no option but to cover up in the hope that she could survive the onslaught.

Smith had now corralled the Latvian into the corner and began bombarding Fecko with shots from every conceivable angle, then just as Fecko straightened up Smith landed an absolute peach of a shot to the body that sent Fecko straight to the canvas.

As referee Jimmy Byrne made the count Fecko looked towards her corner and shook her head before desperately trying to make it to her feet, however clearly in distress she instantly dropped back down onto one knee, leaving Jimmy Byrne no option but to call a halt to proceedings on the seventy second mark of the first round.

Prior to Smith-Fecko Lincoln’s unbeaten big punching Middleweight Nathan Decastro, mod Letlands Elvis Rozembergs, i en seks rounder.

Decastro’s ring moniker is ‘Nightmare’ and boy oh boy I bet young Mr. Rozembergs will be having plenty of them after this fight.

DeCastro, en tidligere engelsk Amatør International, is about as clinical as they come. Right from the off the Lincolnshire lad picked his shots with precision, landing three pin-point perfect shots just with his opening salvo.

Rozembergs er vildt skønt, clearly believing that attack is the best form of defense the Latvian came straight back with a series of off target looping right hands, hver gang præsentere DeCastro med et klart mål -Rozembergs krop - for at indstille sine seværdigheder på, hvilket naturligvis han gjorde, landing seriously solid shots each time.

On about the minute mark Rozembergs tried to back Decastro up by coming in hard and fast with a double handed flurry, however Decastro side stepped before letting rip with a big right to the body, which sent Rozembourgs to the canvas.

Den lettiske var tydeligvis i nød, instantly referee Jimmy Byrne stopped the fight and called the ringside doctor and paramedics into the ring.

Efter et par minutter Rozembergs blev hjulpet på benene og som han gjorde
modtaget begejstret bifald fra anerkendende publikum.

Før DeCastro-Rozembergs var en anden pro debut, denne gang
Middlesborough Welterweight Chris Wood, mod Edgar Milevics.

Milevics ikke gjorde retfærdig bedre end både Lecko eller Rozembergs, in fact the Latvian lad was sent to the deck in the first twenty seconds,
efter Wood pitching en stor ret i hans ribben.

Milevics gjorde optællingen, but on the restart you could see his heart was no longer in the fight, electing instead to cover up in the vein hope that Wood wouldn’t land another big shot.

På omkring 50 sekunder mærke det uundgåelige skete, Wood sneaked a lovely little hook in just behind Milevics guard, causing the Latvian to bring his hands down to protect his body, which left him open to a big right to the head, which left Milevics no option but to cover up again and as he did Wood calmly threw another big left to the body, which sent Milevic down to the canvas for the second time.

Milevic just about managed to make it to his feet but referee Jimmy Byrne took one look and see how unsteady the Latvian was on his feet and rightly stopped the fight on the sixty seconds mark.

Støtte til de tre faglige anfald, were a number of European Boxing Federation (EBF) sanktionerede anfald.

Den vigtigste, for EBF International Bantamvægt Championship, see Leeds’ Sophie Varley in a rematch against Malta’s Mandy Cortis.

Cortis had come all the way from sunny Malta to a rather wet and Windy Leeds to defend the title she won last time the two met.

De første tre runder Cortis spillede vi venter på, håber, at alle
handling pige Varley ville slå sig selv ud.

Round fire var en meget mere jævn affære, with Cortis electing to take the fight to Varley, oprindeligt den maltesiske pige lander en god par skud, but Varley is as tough as they come and by about the fifty second mark wrenched control back with a fantastic display of boxing, culminating with Cortis backed onto the ropes and absorbing a seemingly never ending barrage.

Om det ene minut tredive mark var det Cortis om angreb igen, utilizing her jab to great effect to set Varley up for a combination or two, until the final ten seconds or so, som var en ren tå til tå Battle Royale.

Cortis kontrollerede størstedelen af ​​de sidste to runder, med nogle
smuk boksning, Varley stadig gav en stor højde for sig selv, bare
mængde arbejde, hun havde lagt i løbet af de tidlige runder havde næsten
drænet hende.

Det var klart, at det skulle være tæt, and it was with Varley securing the title by a very, meget tæt 58-57 point beslutning.

Resultaterne af resten af ​​EBF kortet blev:

Yorks Carly McKenzie scoret en fremragende 40-37 peger sejr over
Bridlington Mel Halstead for EBF Central Area Fjervægt titel.

Leeds’s Graham Mattison scored a one minute and fifty second second round TKO victory over Blackpool’s Richard Leak in the EBF Northern Heavyweight contest.

Leeds 'Jay Stevenson scorede et 30-28 peger sejr over Stoke Phil McGinn.

Leeds 'Liam Hayes scorede et 40-37 peger sejr over Stoke er Lewis Sherrat

Manchesters Jimmy Guld scorede et tæt 29-28 victory over Bramley’s Philip Walker.