FINE FINISH

Andy Whittle sees Ball up the tempo late on to overcome Little TWO knockdowns late in the sixth and an immediate spell of sustained pressure from Dordon’s Kelcie Ball at the top of the seventh were sufficient to prompt the intervention of referee-for-the-night Kevin Parker in the Holte Suite at Villa Park. This ended the hopes of Driffield’s gutsy Danny Little, who showed spirit aplenty despite suffering a cut eye as early as the third. The finish, with Kelcie seemingly headed for a wide points win, came with 22 seconds of the penultimate session having elapsed.

A feisty six which served as chief support pitched Derby’s unbeaten Indi Sangha in against Brummie Paul Holt. Sangha got the nod by a margin of two points, with Mr Parker scoring 58-56. Sangha, who conceded a couple of sessions after making he early running, came back strongly in the last stanza.

A quartet of four-rounders all finished with home boxers claiming shutout victories. The first saw Coventry’s Jordan Cooke put two recent losses behind him to consign Newark’s Fonz Alexander to career defeat number 63.

Birmingham’s Jack O’keeffe proved too much for as-yet-winless

Jack Green, of Newton Abbott, who was instructed by referee Parker on more than one occasion to do a little less holding and a little more boxing.

Tamworth’s unbeaten Charlie Williams worked well behind the jab and was a worthy 40-36 winner against Lithuanian Simas Volosinas, while Selly Oak firsttimer Shaka Thompson (real name Jordan) made the most of his height and reach advantages to see off recently returned Aberystwyth trier

Sean Gorman.

A second debutant, Cannock’s

Lee Gunter, triumphed 40-37 over two-fight Leeds novice David Zubrzycki in the first bout of the night, and that score was mirrored in the four which saw Solihull’s tall Shakan Pitters, especially dominant in the second half, get the better of another Lithuanian in the shape of Dmitrij Kalinovskij.

THE VERDICT Fight fans at the Villa are being spoiled with a second show in a fortnight.