THREE AND EASY
Supremely confident Thompson cruises to victory and he isn’t the only one
THERE were no less than three first round stoppage victories over imports at Bowlers, with impressive performances from home boxers largely responsible. Towering Manchester cruiser Jordan
Thompson took just 67 seconds to halt Belgium’s Michael Pareo who had lasted five here against Sam Hyde as recently as June.
In what little time it lasted, Pareo was down three times, the first instance being from a chopping right and then two further rights, delivered 20 or so seconds apart. The last blast caused him to slip down the ropes to the canvas and referee Mark Lyson to do the right thing and declare enough was enough. Earlier, Ellesmere Port super-welter
Mason Cartwright needed just 60 seconds to bludgeon Hungarian Zoltan
Turai to defeat, a left to the body dropping Turai, who had already been down from a right in centre ring. Referee John Latham halted it with the stocky, shaven-headed visitor rising but in no position to continue.
The one that did concern me was the scheduled six-twos between Birmingham’s unbeaten Raza Hamza and British licensed Andis Didzus. The Latvian was allowed to fight at late notice, despite being dropped four times and stopped in the first round by Boy Jones at Brentwood in June in his only recent outing.
True to form, Didzus, despite a hefty weight advantage, was down twice more in 63 seconds and should now consider his future in the sport. Manchester super-middle John
Telford needed just a little longer to vanquish his Eastern European opposition. Slovakia’s Ladislav Nemeth made it through as far as the midway point in the third (of a scheduled eight) before referee Mr Lyson came to his rescue following a second knockdown. Initially down from sheer weight of pressure late in the previous session, Nemeth’s appetite for a fight was seemingly gone and the Liverpool official’s call was the correct one.
Just eight days after snapping the 100 per cent record of St Helens puncher Gary Ormrod at this very same venue Atherton’s
William Warburton came mightily close to taking another scalp. This time, “Warby” was in against another unbeaten operator in the shape of Leicester’s CJ Challenger, and he sent the touted younger man to the canvas twice in the first of a sixrounder.
On another night he might just have got the nod too, but having picked up a cut to the right eyebrow in a second round head clash, and facing an improved Challenger from that point onwards, he ultimately lost out by the narrowest of margins, referee Latham seeing CJ edge it 57-56.
Buxton-based Filipino Irvin Magno made the early running against Reading’s Ibrar Riyaz in the evening’s curtain raiser, but saw the lead eroded when centurion Riyaz finished the next particularly strongly.
What followed was a tight encounter with Ibrar fully earning the respect of the well supported Buxton man who referee Latham saw a 39-38 winner.
Sheffield’s Muheeb Fazeldin, back in a British ring for the first time in two years following a spell in Detroit, returned against Nuneaton’s Kristian Laight and registered his 10th paid victory, Mark Lyson scoring 40-36 from ringside for Preston trialist Jamie Kirkpatrick. Kristian finished marked below the right eye.
First-timers Jack Rafferty of Shaw in Lancashire, and Manchester cruiser Damian Chambers both secured shutout four round wins in bouts using the Kirkpatrick/lyson combo. Rafferty, living up to his “Demolition Man” moniker by handing Halesowen’s Kevin Mccauley
something of a shellacking, and Prestonborn Chambers controlling proceedings throughout while besting Bulgaria’s Tayar Mehmed.
Mccauley, having been under the cosh throughout, had a long chat in the ring with Rafferty following their bout and was seemingly very impressed - as was Boxing News photographer Jane Warburton who, having been ringside at several hundred shows, thought Jack’s was among the most impressive debut performance she had seen.