Archive for May, 2006
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Scotland’s cadet boxers have now completed their preparations ahead of the Four Nations Boxing Championships that take place at the Greenock Sports Centre on Nelson Street, Greenock this Friday (19th of May) and Saturday.
“We have had 12 sessions together and now we just cant wait,” said coach Danny Lee who has been working with the […]
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Top of the bill at the Gilmerton Select v Canada Select on Friday the 12th of May at Ingliston saw Commonwealth Games middleweight rep, Craig McEwan of Clovenstone out-think and out-gun a game Canadian in Baz Gohar.
Brave Gohar found McEwan too strong, too quick and too clever, but credit where credit’s due - he hung […]
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
WBO Featherweight champion Scott Harrison has withdrawn from his title defence against Gairy St Clair scheduled to take place in Belfast on Saturday night.
The two time world champ’s build up to his latest title defence could not have been worse both inside and out of the ring.
He had to postpone the defence because of […]
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Injury kept both Leith Victoria’s Senior Internationalists out of action, but this was to give the younger ones a chance to show what they could do. An impromptu visit from a Canadian boxing team meant that once everyone budged up a bit to let them in, the young lads had some experienced boxers to show […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
Auchengiech ABC hosted their annual Youth and Novice Show yesterday and it was refreshing to see teams from Kelty, Sparta, Zetland, Millenium (Stranraer) and Garnock Valley (Ayrshire) joining the west central Scotland clubs in what is the future of the sport.
In speaking to the coaches it becomes apparent that these young men need […]
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
Blantyre Miners ABC held their annual show on Friday night and the fight fans who turned up were not disappointed as the John McDermott / John Lenzi card produced some epic contests.
Battle of the evening (that’s what it was) between Aberdeen’s Stewart Reid and Barn’s Eamonn Goodbrand was as good a contest as your […]
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
With a week to go before Scott Harrison’s WBO title defence at the King’s Hall, Belfast, his opponent Martin Honario has pulled out and he will now face Guyanan Gairy St. Clair.
The reasons behind Honario’s no show are still unclear, but it comes on top of Juan Guzman’s decision to pull out, and leaves Scott […]
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Dave Stewart’s best performance of his career wasn’t enough to prevent a sixth round stoppage defeat at the hands of his good friend and training partner, Lee Meager, at the York Hall tonight.
The 30 year old Scot was hoping to follow in the steps of Ken Buchanan and Jim Watt in being crowned British Lightweight […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Dave Stewart weighed in bang on the 9 stone 9lb limit ahead of Friday’s British Lightweight title fight against Lee Meager at the York Hall, Bethnal Green.
The Irvine born 30 year old is unbeaten as a professional with 18 wins out of 18 contests. Neither Dave or his stablemate and good friend. Lee Meager, are […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Martin Watson will defend his Lightweight Celtic Championship title against Gavin Rees at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff on the 8th of July subject to contracts being agreed.
The 24 year old from Coatbridge won the title in October 2004 and this will be his first defence. His opponent Rees is unbeaten in 23 contests as […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Ricky Burns will fight Craig Docherty in a British Super Featherweight title eliminator in an all Scottish clash - in Manchester on the 15th of July.
It’s another blow for Scottish fight fans following the decision to move Scott Harrison’s WBO title defence to Belfast.
The other eliminator for the British Super Featherweight title that was vacated […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Lee McAllister has been added to the undercard at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, on Friday night.
The double headliner event features Dave Stewart’s British Lightweight title fight against Lee Meager and the 23 year old from Aberdeen will no doubt be ringside for that too given his own ambitions on the domestic Lightweight scene.
But first […]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Top of the bill at Cardenden ABC’s Dean Park Hotel show on Friday night was Commonwealth Games quarter finalist, Jason Hastie (Gilmerton), against Scottish Champion, Darren Traynor (Granite City), in a featherweight contest which actually turned into a scrappy affair with neither lad wanting to give anything away.
Young Traynor took an early lead with […]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Mitch Prince has left the amateur ranks to sign on as a professional with Tommy Gilmour it was announced today.
The 21 year old Lightweight from Cumbernauld was born in South Africa has lived in Scotland since he was 13 and represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. However his style is far more suited […]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Lawrence Murphy has decided to quit boxing following his defeat against Wayne Elcock in a British title eliminator held in Birmingham on Saturday.
The former WBU Middleweight champion - who beat Elcock in 2004 to take the title - was stopped in five by the Birmingham fighter. It was only the second loss in 18 contests […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Kingdom ABC’s Eddie Finney got his revenge on Glenboig’s Eddie Doyle at the Four Isles Show in Ballerup Hall, East Kilbride last night.
The victory must have been sweet following Doyle’s win over the Fifer during their Scottish Semi Final at Darvel Town Hall a couple of months back.
Finney took command from the off and […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Kevin McIntyre will be sitting down with his family and management team to discuss his future in boxing before the week is out after suffering a sixth round stoppage defeat to Gary Reid at the King’s Hall in Stoke on Saturday.
“From round 2 my head was just not in the fight and basically I lost […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Ryan Brawley made it five wins on the trot at the Magnum Centre in Irvine last night as he turned in a performance not usually associated with a 20 year old to comfortably beat Dariusz Snarski on points.
The 20 year old was fighting in his hometown for the first time as a pro and he […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
There was disappointment for Uddingston’s Lawrence Murphy as his former victim, Wayne Elcock, stopped him in five rounds in Birmingham on Saturday night in a British title eliminator.
The two boxers had an obvious dislike for one another, as was shown at the weigh-in when neither fighter made any attempt to communicate.
Murphy (11st 6lbs) entered […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Newarthill 40kg youth Western District and Scottish Champion, Charlie Flynn, kept his unbeaten record intact on Friday the 5th at the Birtley Boy’s ABC annual dinner show in the Lancastrian Suite, Dunston, Newcastle.
Charlie took his record to 12-0 by beating Birtley Boy’s ABC’s Robert Davidson on a majority points decision.
Scott Allan (youth 40kg) was […]
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