BORISLAV BASHED
Jones too strong for 34-year-old Zankov
BIRMINGHAM
FEBRUARY 25 ★★★★★ WHOLE SHOW
THE SECOND show on successive nights by busy promoters BCB saw a return to the Eastside Rooms in Birmingham, where a slightly truncated event nevertheless once more bore fruit and saw youth besting experience.
Nominal bill-topper at the relatively new venue was Chelmsley Wood light-heavy Brandon Jones who, having already polished off half of his six opponents inside the distance, duly turned the trick once more, this time accounting for heavily tattooed 34-year-old Sofia resident Borislav Zankov.
Having been under the cosh from the start, Zankov finally succumbed in the fifth of a scheduled six when, after having been rocked by a right early in the session and then floored by a barrage to the head, he was on the ropes, tired and throwing nothing back. Referee Peter Mccormack intervened at 2-27.
Melksham’s Liam Richards donned the gloves for the 96th time and, having dropped all four rounds in Solihull seven days previously, went the full six here against Brummie superlightweight Mykey-lee Broughton who, truth be told, didn’t encounter too much by way of trouble en-route to a shutout victory, with Chris Dean, scoring from ringside for triallist Mr Mccormack, having it 60-54.
Victorious by the same margin, this time with Mr Dean himself the man in the middle, Bloxwich six-footer Ryan Woolridge mixed it up nicely behind the jab, and made it six out of six by accounting for Joe Hardy of Leeds.
The remaining pair of contests, both boxed over four, gave two locals cause for celebration, Syrian-born but Birmingham based Kutaiba Jimenez, who tasted debut success over Paul Cummings in this same ring just before Christmas, repeating the feat by handing Brierley Hill’s MJ Hall (an almost weekly fixture in the away corner on BCB shows) a 94th career defeat, referee Mr Dean seeing it 40-36.
Stourbridge’s Jake Melvin had a tougher time of it against game Costa Rica-born superwelter Berman Sanchez, judge Dean scoring an entertaining scrap 38-37 at the finish of a bout that saw the home man floored by a short left just moments from the close of the second.