EAST LONDON BOXING ACADEMY IN FOCUS
Daniel Herbert sees Sam Fazil catch up with Shadrack Williams to end the ELBA show with a bang
EAST LONDON Boxing Academy held an open show at the Ghousia community centre - and the 18-bout event ended with a bang courtesy of Sam Fazil. A couple of months earlier the exciting middleweight had created a stir in the Novice Championships when he scored three stoppages before being edged out in the London final. Now Shadrack Williams can testify that Fazil’s power is still there. For two rounds the taller Stonebridge boxer resisted well, but when fatigue slowed his movement in the last he walked onto a crunching Fazil left hook that sent him crashing down, with the bout waved off at once. Williams recovered quickly and won best Away Boxer, while Fazil won the Best Home Senior prize.
Best Home Junior/youth on the December 14 show went to Hamza Hajee for his unanimous win over Earlsfield’s Marley Watts. The Moor Lane camp was unhappy when Ellis Adcock lost unanimously to Uzair Maqbool at Youth 52kgs. But while Adcock gave as good as he got initially, he faded in the last. The novice flyweight three-twos between Fisher’s Hassan Hashim against Saif Akmal did produce something bizarre. Hashim, a semifinalist in the Novices and Boys Clubs, struggled to land cleanly until the last - by when he’d received two standing counts as Akmal boxed smartly. Hashim though was a surprise split winner.
OTHER RESULTS (ELBA unless stated): Junior: Riley Isaacs (Pinewood) outpd Ryan Mulvihill (St Pancras) unan; Imad Bashart outpd Mehdi Letit (Cricklewood) split; Jonjo Lee (Pinewood) outpd Anthony Mcdonagh (White Hart Lane) unan; Jibreel Sheikh outpd Paddy Cash (Westside) split; Johnny Crittenden (Pinewood) outpd Jimmy Mannion (White Hart Lane) unan; Saif Akhtar outpd Owen Jarvis (MK Victors) split; Zayn Ahmed (Pinewood) outpd John Mcdonagh (White Hart Lane) unan; Mark Curtis (Moor Lane) outpd Erkan Huseyn unan; Nawab Ejaz outpd Seamus O’neill (Moor Lane) unan; Zeeshan Ali outpd Fred Levy (Moor Lane) split; Jabir Sitar stpd Harris Ali (Cricklewood) 1st. Senior: Hassan Hashim (Fisher) outpd Saif Akmal split; Joshua Oduraju (Newham) outpd Shaan Qureshi unan; Mohammed Hussain (Stonebridge) stpd Joe Stanley 3rd; Omar Kabba stpd Derek Adams (Finchley) 3rd.