30th November Boxing

Just a quick summary really of what I seen tonight.

Started off the night watching Joe Selkirk vs Ruslans Pojonisevs - Selkirk won on points in what turned out to be a bit of a jobber fight really. Certainly no spectacle.

Next up was Steve Williams vs Kirk Goodings - Williams dominated the first half of the fight, Goodings finished the second half of the fight quite strong. The fight went the distance and finished 116-115 in favour of Williams.

Over at the MEN, we seen the fight of Denton Vassell vs Ronnie Heffron - Both undefeated boxers coming into this contest for the Commonwealth welterweight title. Vassell went on to force a stoppage in the 6th Round after landing a devastating uppercut to Heffron which left him unfit to continue. I expect to see bigger things opening up in the future for Vassell - he looks a powerful boxer in really top shape. Currently boxing under Hatton Promotions too.

Back to Main Event of the night at Aintree - David Price vs Matt Skelton - Skelton came out quick from the first bell and it didn't look Price was expecting the early barrage - Price handled it well though, and started to land some heavy blows of his own, but, Skelton is a tough cookie and managed to stay on his fight. As expected though, Price didn't hang around too long and got the job done in the second round - a move which started off with a right hook to the head which forced Skelton upon the ropes - Price continued to work the head of Skelton until a gap opened on the body, and Price delivered two devastation left hooks to the body which caused the knockdown - Skelton's team threw the towel in, but the referee didn't see this and counted to 10 anyway. David Price is scheduled to be back in the ring in February rumoured to be against the American guy who lost to Klitschko in the Summer (Tony Thompson). Tyson Fury was mentioned again, and Maloney put in an offer of £650k for the fight (even tho Fury bottled accepting £500k last time - lol, jobber). It looks like Price has his sights set on a future fight against Dereck Chisora though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Nw6RfoQS8 Catch the full fight here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHgZLYXr1gk Post Fight Interview with iFilm London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aQzYuck88Y Post Fight Press Conference


After Jim and Buncey had their little says on Boxnation - we moved straight back to the MEN for the final 2 fights of the night.

First up was Bradley Saunders vs Peter McDonagh - sorry fans, didn't really take much notice of this fight, didn't take any interest in it, arguably one of the worst I've seen in a while. Anyway, Saunders won on a points decision 78-74.

The night of boxing ended for me by watching some more car crash boxing. Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff vs Richard Dawson. Main event of the night - 4 x 2 Minute Rounds. For those who hadn't been following, but Flintoff has been on a 5/6 month training programme in effort to become a Pro Boxer (the series on Sky they put together following him - From Lords to the Ring - is a decent watch by the way). Obviously nerves got to Flintoff a bit, with this being his first fight, but he got off to a decent attacking start and the boxers exchanged blows/slaps (however you want to describe it ha). Flintoff suffered a flash knock down in the second round having been caught with a left hook whilst off-balance. The final 2 rounds were pretty much a mixture of flurries of messy attacks and a lot of holding between the two men. Flintoff was declared the winner by way of points. 39-38 being the points score. I would be surprised if he was to fight again, but, I suppose I can't not give credit to the man - considering his well documented lifestyle of food and booze - to turn it around and have a pro fight is nothing short of superb. He certainly won't be in the ring with anyone good though any time soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX8Ue50vmko Full Fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUOBHvi2mjs Post fight interview

Saturday 1st December brings us the live fight on Channel 5 between Tyson Fury and previous world title challenger Kevin Johnson (went a full 12 rounds with Vitali Klitschko in 2009, only to lose on points). Worth tuning into even if you aren't a fan of either - better than any reality TV garbage that maybe on instead. It also features a decent undercard too which contains Chris Eubank Jr (looks to be a big prospect, just like his old man). Later on around 2/3am onwards, there's a big fight involving Miguel Cotto taking on Austin Trout in battle for the WBA World light middleweight title.

Steve.