JACK WINS QUICK

Martin halts former Southern Area champ in first half of 10-rounder

GRAYS

JULY 1

★★★☆☆ WHOLE SHOW

BILL-TOPPER on this seven-bout Lee Eaton promotion at Grays Civic Hall, a scheduled super-welterweight 10 between Southminster’s Jack Martin and Aylesbury’s experienced but never particularly active former Southern Area champion, Nathan Graham, didn’t even make it as far as the half-way stage, referee Chas Coakley bringing an end to proceedings in the fourth. For Jack, 27, it was a sixth successive win and having halted Rainham’s Liam Wells last time out, it was a second stoppage victory on the bounce, too.

There was a win for the away corner, and by the narrowest of margins, in the women’s eight-round showdown between previously unbeaten Irish-based Pole Kate Radomska and Bournemouth’s tattooed Gemma Ruegg, referee Mr Coakley having the Dorset boxer nicking it 77-76. In another female bout, this one slated for six between Leytonstone’s hardhitting Dee Allen and Budapest’s Klaudia Vigh, the same Southend official had no option but to call a halt in the fourth when the Bulgarian was floored for the second successive round by a body shot. Dee isn’t hanging around – this was her third paid outing and her third inside the distance win.

South Oxhey’s Lee Every took charge of the four remaining contests, a six and three fours, all of which ran the distance and resulted in comprehensive victories for the home boxers.

Triumphing over six was another ex-southern Area champion, Shaquille Day, who, having been beaten in his last two, returned to winning ways with a 59-56 nod over Russia’s Vasif Mamedov, who loses almost weekly. There were wins too for Hornchurch’s Harley Benn, Stanfordle-hope’s Jordan Purkiss and Romfordbased Romanian Horia Trif. Benn winning 39-37 against Nicaraguan Alexander Zeledon, Purkiss earning the same score over Liverpool’s ‘Baby-faced Assassin’ Jack Dwyer, and one-fight novice Trif taking all four rounds against Stockport centurion Jamie Quinn.