Gary Young Stops Thomas Hengsberger Inside Two

He may have been a former European kickboxing champion, but Thomas Hengsberger had nothing in his arsenal of punches to trouble Edinburgh's Gary Young at the Braehead Arena last night.

The 21 year old southpaw has now won 12 on the bounce since turning pro and took just three rounds to dispose of Hengsberger who had no answers to the power of Welterweight Young.

In the second, Gary rocked the Austrian with shot after shot and on more than one occasion it looked like Hengsberger's legs wanted to exit stage left. In the third, the punishment continued and when it was obvious that Hengsberger had had enough the ref stepped in.

Gary Young now needs better opposition than this to push him on to domestic glory.

Martin Watson's another boxer who needs a better class of opponent. After convincingly beating Mark Winters last time out to take the Celtic Lightweight title, a four rounder against Walsall's Jimmy Beech was little more than a public workout for the Coatbridge man. Beech, who was KO'd in the first round by Willie Limond a few years ago, was not in Watson's class and it really was one way traffic from beginning to end. 40-36 the points win.

Edinburgh's Scott Flynn stepped down to Super-Bantamweight to beat Shrewsbury’s Neil Marsden in two rounds. A left hook at the end of the first perforated Marsden's ear drum and the battle of the southpaws ended when the referee stepped in to save him from further injury following two knockdowns at the start of the second.

Equally impressive was Colin McNeil's one sided victory over Matt Scriven, although to be fair to the Nottingham boxer he did take the fight at just two day's notice. McNeil floored Scriven in the second, third and fourth round and threw some excellent body and head shots throughout to win 40-34 on points.

Of the four contests, McNeil will have benefited most from his win. Scriven did all he could to unsettle the young southpaw, and was constantly being talked to the referee for doing so, and McNeil will have emerged much the wiser for the experience.

Posted by scottish-boxing at January 30, 2005 10:01 AM