Report: Gianluca Di Caro

Ko te tikanga ko te reira rānei te Rāmere ranei Rāhoroi po e whiwhi ahau toku whakatika auau
o te mahi pugilistic, tenei wiki, ahakoa ko reira he iti rerekē rite i hanga e ahau
te haerenga i London ki runga ki Leeds i runga i te Sabati ata, in order to catch the latest offering from former Irish Champion, kaiwhakatairanga tahuri, Lee Murtagh.

Whakaaro ko reira he Rātapu ahiahi / te ahiahi whakaatu, Ko te nui o ahau
maere, Ko e maere e aore, e, no te taenga mai e ahau i te wāhi, a good couple of hours before the advertised start time, it was already more or less full to capacity.

Kia ki te mea i te pā Leeds mohio mooni ki he founga ki te oaoa i ratou, te
huru i te Pryzm nightclub i hiko, so no surprise that when the highly entertaining MC, Mr. 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.

Headlining i te whakaaturanga i tino rohe Sam Smith, who was making her pro debut, ki a Latvia Jekaterina Lecko.

Mai i te atu kotiro e rua neke ki te tango i mowhiti pokapū, 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, i mua i pihinga i te tika tika, which caught the Latvian flush.

Katia ano Smith i roto i, me te kia ripiripia ki te tika nui ki te tinana, me te maui
ki te matenga, Tamata Fecko ki te tu ki tona whenua, engari ka haere mai Smith i roto i te ara
kaha akina te hoki Latvian ki te taura.

I te tīmatanga whakamahia Fecko ia werohanga ki nui pānga ki te pupuri i Smith i te kokoru, engari
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.

Neke Smith tika tonu i roto i mo te fakapō, maka ana i te tini o te matā nui,
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, ki Elvis Rozembergs o Latvia, i roto i te rounder e ono.

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

Katara, he mua English Amateur 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 he kēmu ahakoa, clearly believing that attack is the best form of defense the Latvian came straight back with a series of off target looping right hands, ia wā whakaatu i Katara ki te mārama pukupuku -Rozembergs tinana - kia whakatakotoria ana mātanga ki runga ki, nei o te akoranga i ia, 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.

Ko te Latvian mārama i roto i te pouri, instantly referee Jimmy Byrne stopped the fight and called the ringside doctor and paramedics into the ring.

I muri i te meneti torutoru a Rozembergs i āwhina ki ona waewae, me te rite i ia
riro pakipaki Mataora i te whakarongo mauruuru.

I mua ki te Katara-Rozembergs ko tetahi tuatahi pro, tenei wā
Middlesborough Welterweight Chris Wood, ki Edgar Milevics.

Kihai i Milevics ataahua tetahi pai atu rānei Lecko Rozembergs ranei, in fact the Latvian lad was sent to the deck in the first twenty seconds,
e whai ake nei Wood laku i te tika nui ki ona rara.

Milevics hanga te tatau, 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.

I pā ana ki te tohu tuarua o nga rima tekau tupu te mooni, 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.

Tautoko mo te pāngia ngaio e toru, were a number of European Boxing Federation (EBF) pāngia fakangofua ia.

Ko te tetahi matua, mo te EBF International whā 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.

Ko te rauna e toru tuatahi Cortis te whakatangihanga a te kēmu tatari, tumanako e te katoa
kotiro mahi Varley e Kilisimasi ia i roto i.

Rauna e wha, ko te take nui atu ara, with Cortis electing to take the fight to Varley, te tīmatanga i ū te kotiro Maltese he pai torutoru matā, 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.

Mō te meneti kotahi tohu toru tekau, ko reira Cortis i te whakaeke ano, utilizing her jab to great effect to set Varley up for a combination or two, until the final ten seconds or so, i te he toe parakore ki te koromatua Battle kowaiwai.

Te mana Cortis te nuinga o nga rauna whakamutunga e rua, ki etahi
mekemeke ataahua, Tonu he pūkete nui i homai e Varley o ia, noa i te
nui o te mahi i hoatu e ia ki roto ki te wā tīmatanga o te rauna i tata
heke ia.

Ko te mārama haere te reira ki te kia tata, and it was with Varley securing the title by a very, tino tata 58-57 ngā whakatau.

Ko nga hua o te toenga o te kāri EBF i:

Piro o York Carly McKenzie he pai 40-37 tohu wikitoria ki runga
A Bridlington Mel Halstead mo te taitara EBF Central Area mā whitu.

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.

Piro Leeds 'Jay Stevenson he 30-28 tohu te whakaoranga mo o Stoke Phil McGinn.

Piro Leeds 'Liam Hayes he 40-37 tohu te whakaoranga mo o Stoke Lewis Sherrat

A Manchester Jimmy Gold piro te tata 29-28 victory over Bramley’s Philip Walker.