KOR BLIMEY!
Heavy-handed Evaldas retains Central Area belt
A CLUBBING left cross not long after the halfway point in the fifth session put paid to the Central Area title hopes of Bolton super-welter
Chris Jenkinson at Hull City Hall. Heavy-handed locally based Lithuanian Evaldas Korsakas completed a successful first defence of the belt he had won when outpointing Halifax’s Jack Sellars four months previously.
Prior to that point there had been little daylight between the two combatants, with southpaw Korsakas maybe just having the edge. Once that left hand connected though it was a case of game over, with Jenkinson pitching forward heavily to the canvas.
Referee John Latham waved an immediate halt to allow medics to tend to the stricken fighter who, having been given oxygen during a lengthy spell on the deck, finally rose to the applause of all. The technical count out came with 66 seconds of the fifth remaining.
Mr Latham, sharing duties with Darren Sarginson, took charge of one other contest, a four-rounder which saw Hull first-timer Ryan Gibbons edge home 38-37 against Sheffield’s Kuwait-born
Anwar Alfadli who, tricky as ever, threatened an upset when he sat Ryan down with a counter right early in the third.
With one eye on his forthcoming British featherweight title challenge against Ryan Walsh, Morecambe’s
Isaac Lowe stayed busy with a six-rounder against Plymouth trier
Chris Adaway – a 60-53 victory being his reward with Adaway being counted after his knee brushed the canvas momentarily in the second.
Brough’s Matthew Wigglesworth handed Eastbourne’s Scott Hillman a rare stoppage defeat, flooring him late in the first of a four and repeating the feat to halt him 89 seconds into the next.
Driffield’s Danny Little saw off Warminster’s Paul Cummings, a victory of 40-37 on the scorecards duly ending a 20-bout losing streak.
THE VERDICT A fifth fight unbeaten for the in- form Korsakas.