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Ricky Pow Destroys Italian |
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Monday, 13 February 2012 10:14 |
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Eight hundred ardent fight fans saw Ricky Pow take just 8 minutes to demolish Italy's veteran light heavyweight Andreas Stonati at the Sports Centre in Daya Nueva on Friday night.
In the pre match hype the much lauded, and extremely confident former Italian Amateur champion, certainly talked and looked the part, bringing an entourage of 25 noisy supporters with him from his home in Rome, but despite an aggressive opening, by midway through the opening round the dominance of Pow was already beginning to show.
After the two boxers sounded each other out early in the clash, crowd favourite Pow connected with a good left hook rocking his opponent back. A flurry of blows then saw the Italian on the canvas with only the bell coming between him and a humiliating first round exit.
As Pow continued to pick his way through the Italian's defence Stonati was floored again with a powerful right hook late in the second and after struggling to his feet he only just managed to cling on to see out the bell.
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Quigg v Arthur ends in controversy |
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Monday, 06 February 2012 16:44 |
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British champion Scott Quigg came through the toughest test of his professional career, getting up off the canvas at the Reebok to beat Jamie Arthur in the first defence of his super bantamweight title.
The 23-year-old Bury boxer was forced to take an eight count in the fourth round after being stunned by an Arthur left hook on Saturday night. But the unbeaten local hero recovered to stop the former Commonwealth champion in controversial fashion in the eighth round. The decision taken by referee Mark Green to controversially step in and stop the bout after Quigg's low left hook spun his opponent around, divided opinion.
He ruled that Arthur was unable to defend himself after dropping his guard, but the young champion looked sheepish as the result was officially announced and was quick to offer the challenger another shot. "The decision to stop the fight is up to the ref," said Quigg. "Arthur turned his back on me and the ref thought he had had enough. "We will have to sit down and see where we go from here, but I've offered to give him a rematch."
Arthur, who had lost five of his previous 23 fights, didn't seem overly enthusiastic about the offer after taking some heavy punishment near the end of the fight. But he was adamant the referee made the wrong decision. "I could have continued," he said. "I was off balance. I was trying to get the wind back in me. It was a good body punch from Quigg, but I'm disappointed. You can't convince me how a stoppage can come from that."
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Haskins Calls Out World Champions |
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 16:39 |
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Bristol's Lee Haskins is aiming to make boxing history as he sets his sights on winning a major world title in 2012. No British boxer has ever won a world title at Super Flyweight and it was over fifteen years ago since Wales Robbie Regan won the WBO Bantamweight Title.
Over recent years Haskins (25-2-0 11KO's) has firmly established himself as Europe's best, holding the British Super Flyweight Title for over three years and a win over current European Bantamweight Champion Jamie McDonnell. Haskins is ranked in the top 15 of all four major governing bodies including WBC #5, WBA#9, IBF #13, WBO #14.
Haskins said "I have run out of challengers in Europe and now want to show the world that I am ready. The Japanese and Thai World Champions seem to keep taking the easy options so I am hoping one of the Mexican World Champions will take up my challenge." Haskins added "South Americans pride themselves on honour, bravery and fighting the best. So I am hoping they will accept my challenge and not hide away."
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