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RIOTING fans overshadowed the boxing at the Town Hall where Myron Mills upset Bloxwich ticket-seller Luke
Paddock on a deserved split vote for the vacant IBF Youth lightweight title. After 10 rounds, Phil Edwards (97-93) and Luigi Zaccardi (96-94) had Mills ahead, while Jerome Lades (96-94) surprisingly went for Paddock.
There was a lot of missing, but all the way through, the quality work came from Mills, a 21-year-old from Derby who stepped in at a few days’ notice after Adam Hague pulled out.
He made sure with a good finish down the stretch – and had Paddock in trouble in the ninth with a short right uppercut, a punch he had perhaps tried too hard to find from the opening rounds.
Paddock was cut over his left eye in the same session following a clash of heads.
Solihull welterweight Jordan Clayton kept his unbeaten record after a torrid six threes against Sheffield switcher Ryan Hardy.
Referee Kevin Parker scored 57-57. Early in the second, Clayton was cut on his left eye by a right hand, he was dazed late in the third and looked close to going down in the fourth when Hardy opened up. Clayton toughed it out, kept his boxing together and got a share.
Fighting without his usual fire, Redditch’s Andrew Robinson won every session of his six threes against Lydney’s
Louis van Poetsch for Shaun Messer and he also recorded shut out wins for Birmingham’s Ijaz Ahmed and Tividale’s Stewart Ryan Davis over Gary Reeve and Warminster’s Paul Cummings respectively in four threes.
Oldbury’s Dwain Grant ruined the comeback of Birmingham’s Emmanuel Moussinga, winning every round of their four threes for Mr Parker. Grant slipped just about everything Moussinga threw and fired back fast right-hand counters.
Birmingham debutant Nathan Stevens, fighting in bursts and open to rights, drew 38-38 with Lithuania’s Dmitrij Kalivonskij over four threes for Mr Parker.
THE VERDICT Dark day for boxing.