Rapporter: Gianluca Di Caro

Vanligvis er det enten en Fredag eller Lørdag natt at jeg får min vanlige fix
av pugilistic handling, denne uken selv om det var litt annerledes som jeg har gjort
turen fra London til Leeds på søndag morgen, in order to catch the latest offering from former Irish Champion, slått promoter, Lee Murtagh.

Vurderer det var en Søndag ettermiddag / kveld-show, Jeg var mektig
overrasket, eller er det imponert, at når jeg kom til åstedet, a good couple of hours before the advertised start time, it was already more or less full to capacity.

Må si Leeds fans virkelig vet å kose seg, den
atmosfæren på Pryzm Nattklubb var elektrisk, 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.

Headliner showet ble lokal favoritt Sam Smith, who was making her pro debut, mot Latvias Jekaterina Lecko.

Fra den av både jenter flyttet å ta ringen, 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 skyte ut en rett høyre, which caught the Latvian flush.

Smith stengt inn igjen og la rippe med en stor rett til kroppen og en venstre
til hodet, Fecko prøvde å stå henne bakken, men Smith kom inn selv
sterkere tvinge den latviske tilbake mot tauene.

Utgangspunktet Fecko brukte henne jab til stor effekt for å holde Smith i sjakk, 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 flyttet rett inn for å drepe, kaster et mangfold av store bilder,
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, mot Latvias Elvis Rozembergs, i en seks rundere.

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 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 er spillet likevel, 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 presentere Decastro med et klart mål kropp -Rozembergs - å sette blikket på, som selvfølgelig 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 latviske var tydelig i nød, instantly referee Jimmy Byrne stopped the fight and called the ringside doctor and paramedics into the ring.

Etter noen minutter Rozembergs ble hjulpet på beina og som han gjorde
mottatt begeistrede applaus fra takknemlig publikum.

Før Decastro-Rozembergs var en annen pro debut, denne gang
Middlesborough weltervekt Chris Wood, mot Edgar Milevics.

Milevics gjorde ikke rettferdig noe bedre enn både Lecko eller Rozembergs, in fact the Latvian lad was sent to the deck in the first twenty seconds,
følgende tre pitching en stor rett inn i hans ribben.

Milevics gjort tellingen, 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 om de femti andre merket det uunngåelige skjedde, 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 for de tre profesjonelle bouts, were a number of European Boxing Federation (EBF) sanksjonert bouts.

Det viktigste man, for EBF International bantamvekt 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 tre første rundene Cortis spilte venter spillet, håper at alle
handling jente Varley ville sparke seg ut.

Runde fire var en mye jevnere affære, with Cortis electing to take the fight to Varley, utgangspunktet den maltesiske jenta var landing et godt par skudd, 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 ett minutt tretti mark det var Cortis på angrep igjen, 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 kontrollert flertallet av de to siste rundene, med noen
vakker boksing, Varley fortsatt ga en god skildring av seg selv, bare
hvor mye arbeid hun hadde satt i løpet av de tidlige rundene hadde nesten
tappet henne.

Det var klart det skulle være nær, and it was with Varley securing the title by a very, svært nær 58-57 punkter avgjørelse.

Resultatene av resten av EBF kortet var:

Yorks Carly McKenzie scoret en utmerket 40-37 peker seier over
Bridlington Mel Halstead for EBF Central Area Fjærvekt tittel.

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 scoret et 30-28 peker seier over Stoke Phil McGinn.

Leeds 'Liam Hayes scoret et 40-37 peker seier over Stoke Lewis Sherrat

Manchester Jimmy Gold scoret et nært 29-28 victory over Bramley’s Philip Walker.