BOMBS AWAY
Explosive Pauls blitzes tough Chapman in seven
NEWQUAY’S Brad Pauls successfully defended his Southern Area middleweight strap at the Ocean City’s Guildhall as broke down and then dispatched Chalk Farm’s Robbie
Chapman at 2-03 of the seventh in headlining a Sinfield Star Promotions card.
Chapman, dubbed “The Camden Caretaker”, started well as he outworked the champion in the opener. Pauls was getting beaten to the punch by some neat, crisp combinations as he attempted to steal ground with halfsteps forward.
The Londoner continued to catch Brad in the next as he avoided powerful left hooks to both jab upstairs and work the body.
The tide turned at the end of the third. After Robbie had pluckily sustained his attack downstairs, Pauls’ hooks started to find the target, and a barrage near the close had Chapman’s legs at sea and his nose dripping red.
The challenger took some hefty right hooks and uppercuts in the fourth before being decked after rocking from two clubbing shots from the same side. Chapman bravely beat the count but had a cut and bruised right eye at the end a torrid round.
The momentum fully swung in the Champion’s favour over the next two. Brad jabbed well and closed the range to deploy hard left hooks to the head and body as Chapman no longer had the firepower to deny him.
Even though Robbie was slipping behind on my card, he grittily tried to find openings to work back into the fight when a furious right, then a right cross and straight left, sent him crashing down on the bottom rope. He bravely tried to rise, but third man Lee Cook rightly had seen enough. Plymouth’s Darren Townley scored a 39-37 four-threes win over Camden’s
Lee Devine on Chas Coakley’s tally. Darren was fairly open as he came forward aggressively in the opener and by the second the less-experienced Devine was looking for breathers.
Townley continued to plough in and make the fight over the final stanzas, but Lee to his credit employed effective lateral movement to last the course. The show featured three debutants fighting in their hometown. Firstly, former European under-18 bronze medallist Constantin Ursu overcame solid Ukrainian Artur Davydenko in a very entertaining battle of hooks by 39-37 on Coakley’s tally.
Artur was floored extremely heavily by a massive left hand in the third from the Plymouth-based Moldovan but amazingly got up immediately whereupon the pair continued exchanging full-bodied power shots from close quarters. Former amateur star Ursu is confident, fast and hurtful.
Secondly, Conor Adaway used fast hands and classy shot selection to force Islington’s Jules Phillips to retire at 2-04 of the second of a four-threes officiated by Coakley.
Adaway bamboozled Jules in the first with his rapid punches off the jab and lead left uppercuts. Phillip’s was struggling to contain the aggressor in the next when he was decked with a cluster punctuated by a right hand, which prompted the Londoner’s corner to pull him out.
‘I HAD TO FIGHT IT OUT. I COULDN’T GO DOWN IN FRONT OF MY MARINES’
Lastly, Lewis Everson secured a 39-37 four-threes verdict over game Russian Sergey Martirosyan on Cook’s slate.
Everson was wired in the first round as he launched salvoes of hard hooks to the head and body. After settling down, he showed decent lateral movement and some quality shoulder rolls.
The pair elected to stand with their heads on each other’s shoulders in an gutsy display of in-fighting in the last. Bideford southpaw Billy Stanbury blasted out Czech Martin Kabrhel
at 2:39 of the first in a scheduled four-threes in his paid bow.
The import was down three times in total as Stanbury cocooned him in a whirlwind of volume punching. After a heavy left hand clobbered Martin to the canvas for the final time, referee Cook waved the affair off. Cook was also the third man for Marcus Hodgson’s 39-37 four-threes win over Lewisham-based Swede Edward Bjorklund.
Marcus was given a solid workout by Bjorklund, who mugged and showboated in a bout that was lacking in real accuracy from both.
THE VERDICT ‘Newquay Bomb’ Pauls confirms that he is indeed explosive.