Last weekend saw the battle of the prospects, several enticing and interesting bouts featuring prospect v prospect such as Lanard Lane's contest with Mike Dallas Jr and Shawn Porter v Ray Robinson so we'll take a quick look at the round up of them before we look at a less interesting weekend.
Results from Friday night:
Matty Askin WTKO1 Lee Kellet
Scott Quigg WTKO9 Gavin Reid
Fernando Guerrero WUD10 Ishe Smith
Shawn Porter WUD10 Ray Robinson (in a really brilliant match that's well worth watching)
Lanard Lane LUD8 Mike Dallas Jr (in a bout where Dallas' hand speed really impressed me)
Sadam Ali WTKO3 Julius Edmonds (Ali was also impressive)
Alex Perez WUD8 Edvan Dos Santos Barros
Saturday night:
Raymond Serrano WMD8 Ayi Bruce
So to this week, which sadly lacks the true prospect v prospect fight and instead has more easy learning fights. Firstly the high profile Tony Jeffries, one of the British Olympians from the 2008 Beijing games makes his 8th appearance as a professional, the popular Mackem has an easy nights work on paper against the British based Pole Michael Banbula (10-25-3). Jeffries is expected to win though it's worth noting that Banbula, who has no stoppages, has only been stopped 3 times in his career and is coming in on the back of an impressive victory over Tony Oakey, the former British and Commonwealth Light Heavyweight champion.
On the same card we also have to keep an eye out for 2 other fighters, the first is unbeaten (7-0) 22 year old Martin Ward who faces a really tough test in experienced Andy Bell a former British super flyweight champion. Though Bell is by far more experienced he's jumping up to fight at featherweight against a younger stronger fighter who has the bit between his teeth. The fight on paper looked interesting until you realise that Bells 11-7 record features 4 straight losses in his last 4 fights.
The one that interests me the most personally however is the unbeaten Cruiserweight Jon Lewis Dickinson who hopes to emulate local hero Glenn McCrory and win a world Cruiserweight title. Stood at 6'4'' he's a fighter with huge potential and has made a solid start to his career and at just 24 he's coming into his physical prime. Although not long a pro (only turning in November '08) he has managed several note worthy wins in an unbeaten 8 fight career which has swiftly seen him rated inside the top 10 British Cruiserweights (both Boxrec.com and Boxing News magazine rate him at #6 in Britain). Although on Friday he has a relatively soft test against Tyrone Wright (8-4-2) he has managed to win the “Prizefighter” tournament on Sky Sports and currently holds wins over Paul Bonson, Hastings Rasanai, Mark Krence and 2 wins over Nick Okoth not bad for a novice.
In the USA we probably see the best match up with Scottish born Craig McEwan (18-0) meeting the very reliable and experienced Danny Perez (34-7). Perez doesn't usually lose to bad fighters having recently been out pointed by Erislandy Lara and suffering 2 losses to Antonio Margarito. McEwan has been touted around an awful lot, a top class amateur who's now signed to Golden Boy Promotions has struggled to get these sorts of solid tests and it's probably with good reason. Although he has been highly hyped as Scotland's new star the Hollywood based fighter he has yet to truly impress many of those that are impartial and his split decision victory against Darnell Boone in summer '06 saw him getting a rather lucky victory over a solid journeyman type.
Although Perez is stepping up in weight and lacks pop in his punches don't be surprised if McEwan needs to judges to rescue him.
Although after 24 fights it's not fair to call him a prospect the Iceman Vernon Paris intends to stretch his record. Paris is 21-0 with 3 no contests on his record and aged 22 it's time for him to take the sport seriously or get out. Annoyingly he's scuppered his career with drug offences and out the ring altercations which has seen him shot 3 times and stabbed, despite this he's lighting fast and a talented fighter well worth watching for a few rounds. Sadly last time out against Juan Santiago he seemed to fade very quickly and after the midway point seemed to run more than punch. Paris fights 21-6 Courtney Burton in what could well be Paris' toughest assignment so far, though if he's prepared he should go to 22-0-0-3.
Some other fighters fighting during the week:
Australian fighter and highly touted prospect Lenny Zappavinga faces Billy Sumba. For my money Zappa is living on borrowed time and was comfortably beaten by Fernando Angulo in my eyes (Zappa won the bout on the scorecards to go 23-0). Also in Australia Brad Pitt continues his professional career after a successful 2006 Commonwealth games (in which he won Gold). Pitt is currently 4-0 (3) and faces Oscar Siale (12-5) in what is a solid step up in class.
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Sunday, 18 July 2010
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Scott Quigg the prospect of the week...tough week too
Where do we start this week...well lets look at the past. Wins for Mike Jones (in controversial fashion I admit, the stoppage blow was certainly south of the border), John Molina (stopping the arrogant and outspoken Henry Lundy), Carlos Negron and McJoe Arroyo means that it was a good weekend for prospects mentioned in this column. Antwone Smith however did lose, citing illness as an excuse before the bout, I have no sympathy there and the once touted Verquan Kimbrough has now lost 3 of his last 4 and has only 1 win in his last 6.
So this week...Jesus we have a busy week as decent prospects seem to be fighting more than established talent. It was due to this that it was almost impossible to pick a single fighter to be the prospect of the week, though after pulling names from a hat I've decided to go for a fighter I've not yet written about. 21 year old English Super Bantamweight Scott Quigg seems to be one of the most highly thought of young British fighters and with good reason.
Born in 1988 in the North West of England Quigg would pick up Thai boxing as a youngster before turning to traditional western Boxing aged 15. It was due to his background in Thai boxing that he didn't have a prolonged time in the amateur ranks, in fact he only fought 12 amateur bouts (winning 10 of those) before deciding to turn over and become a professional. Sparring with Pro's seemed to show that the professional game, based more on aggression was suited to Scott than the amateur sport where accurate single “scoring” shots are the key. On his professional debut in 2007 as a relative raw 18 year old beating Gary Sheil over 6 rounds.
Over the following year and a half Quigg would improve his skill whilst beating various low tier opponents and top flight domestic journeymen like Delroy Spencer before being signed up by Hatton Promotions, the company headed by Ricky Hatton. An impressive KO of Sumaila Badu being the deal maker for Hatton and showed that Quigg had become a solid all rounder with power, speed and a very solid professional style for someone so young and inexperienced. By then Scott was just 20 and with just 10 fights experience yet had managed to impress many who had seen him.
With the backing of Hatton and the team behind him Scott has remained busy managing 8 fights in 18 months. Though many of those opponents were nothing to great he had been doing what was needed to dominate them, experienced professionals were being made to look like the amateurs whilst novices were being blown out early. Though it's been the last few fights that Quigg has been especially impressive, blowing out 3 European imports that were expected to extend Quigg the schedule. A 6th round stoppage of Yuriy Voronin, a former European title contender in November of 2009 has been followed by first round stoppages of Nikita Lukin (who had never been stopped previously in 29 fights) and Andrey Kostin (who hadn't been stopped in 6 years) impressed everyone who saw them. Notably the victory over Kostin was amongst the first fights in Quigg's hometown of Bury in 13 years after he helped over turn a ban.
Quigg, now with a record of 18-0 (12) is scheduled to face Gavin Reid in a British super-bantamweight title eliminator. On current form Quigg should secure a relatively easy victory on a fight that is likely to be shown (in highlights at least) on Sky Sports 1 as part of the support for “Friday Fight Night” main event between Matthew Hatton and Yuriy Nuzhnenko. A victory will see Quigg in line for a fight for his first professional title and the first big step to the top.
I'd like to end this with something Phillipe Fondu said in a recent issue of Boxing Monthly "Scott Quigg is the best prospect in Britain by far". From the European mega agent Fondu, thats high praise indeed, though it's worth noting Fondu is the agent for both Yuriy Voronin and Nikita Lukin.
Sources:
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=391424&cat=boxer
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/2010/05/30/quick-fire-quigg-115875-22296371/
http://www.brandhatton.com/VideoProfile/9/.aspx
http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=1526
Boxing Monthly (July 2010)
So this week...Jesus we have a busy week as decent prospects seem to be fighting more than established talent. It was due to this that it was almost impossible to pick a single fighter to be the prospect of the week, though after pulling names from a hat I've decided to go for a fighter I've not yet written about. 21 year old English Super Bantamweight Scott Quigg seems to be one of the most highly thought of young British fighters and with good reason.
Born in 1988 in the North West of England Quigg would pick up Thai boxing as a youngster before turning to traditional western Boxing aged 15. It was due to his background in Thai boxing that he didn't have a prolonged time in the amateur ranks, in fact he only fought 12 amateur bouts (winning 10 of those) before deciding to turn over and become a professional. Sparring with Pro's seemed to show that the professional game, based more on aggression was suited to Scott than the amateur sport where accurate single “scoring” shots are the key. On his professional debut in 2007 as a relative raw 18 year old beating Gary Sheil over 6 rounds.
Over the following year and a half Quigg would improve his skill whilst beating various low tier opponents and top flight domestic journeymen like Delroy Spencer before being signed up by Hatton Promotions, the company headed by Ricky Hatton. An impressive KO of Sumaila Badu being the deal maker for Hatton and showed that Quigg had become a solid all rounder with power, speed and a very solid professional style for someone so young and inexperienced. By then Scott was just 20 and with just 10 fights experience yet had managed to impress many who had seen him.
With the backing of Hatton and the team behind him Scott has remained busy managing 8 fights in 18 months. Though many of those opponents were nothing to great he had been doing what was needed to dominate them, experienced professionals were being made to look like the amateurs whilst novices were being blown out early. Though it's been the last few fights that Quigg has been especially impressive, blowing out 3 European imports that were expected to extend Quigg the schedule. A 6th round stoppage of Yuriy Voronin, a former European title contender in November of 2009 has been followed by first round stoppages of Nikita Lukin (who had never been stopped previously in 29 fights) and Andrey Kostin (who hadn't been stopped in 6 years) impressed everyone who saw them. Notably the victory over Kostin was amongst the first fights in Quigg's hometown of Bury in 13 years after he helped over turn a ban.
Quigg, now with a record of 18-0 (12) is scheduled to face Gavin Reid in a British super-bantamweight title eliminator. On current form Quigg should secure a relatively easy victory on a fight that is likely to be shown (in highlights at least) on Sky Sports 1 as part of the support for “Friday Fight Night” main event between Matthew Hatton and Yuriy Nuzhnenko. A victory will see Quigg in line for a fight for his first professional title and the first big step to the top.
I'd like to end this with something Phillipe Fondu said in a recent issue of Boxing Monthly "Scott Quigg is the best prospect in Britain by far". From the European mega agent Fondu, thats high praise indeed, though it's worth noting Fondu is the agent for both Yuriy Voronin and Nikita Lukin.
Sources:
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=391424&cat=boxer
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/2010/05/30/quick-fire-quigg-115875-22296371/
http://www.brandhatton.com/VideoProfile/9/.aspx
http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=1526
Boxing Monthly (July 2010)
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