SHANE HANDS WAIN SOME PAIN

Distance wins the order of the day in another busy show in Kent

BOXING returned to Kent and the Maidstone Leisure Centre for the fourth time this year, when all seven bouts on this Joe Elfidh promotion ran their full distance and each home boxer had his arm raised at the finish.

Securing his seventh career victory, Chatham southpaw Charlie

Shane hit too hard and too often for Yeovil’s still-winless middleweight Bryn Wain and now approaching his third year as a pro Charlie is looking to kick on step up a level in his next outing.

Slough’s former Southern Area title challenger John Brennan is on something of a roll at the moment. He banked a third successive win of 2018 by outscoring Southwark-based Italian Victor Edagha who whilst often proving an awkward, some might say frustrating opponent, does make people work for their victories.

First-timer Aidan Cassidy of Sittingbourne had been pencilled in for a debut against Dinnington’s Darren Snow before a late change saw him instead exchanging punches with three-fight Sheffield novice Haroon Karim – not that the change bothered him unduly as he ran out a four-round points winner against the lighter Yorkshireman, who is still looking for his first win.

On the winning trail too were Chelmsford super-bantam Tom Mcginley and Ramsgate lightheavy Paul Brown, Tom taking all four rounds against Manchester’s Joe Pennington-stabled Steven Maguire and southpaw Brown doing likewise against Chessington’s experienced Richard Harrison, who had won on his only previous appearance at this venue.

Completing proceedings and adding to their own win tallies in the process, Hoo’s Jack Budge and local favourite Luke Gibb sent their supporters home happy by besting Westbrook’s Ricky Leach and Blackburn’s Naheem Chaudhry respectively, Chaudhry paying a rare visit to the canvas having been tagged by a left uppercut in the last.

THE VERDICT Time now for Charlie Shane to move onwards and upwards.