D’animal tamed

Serge silences the locals as he upsets a former British title challenger

JUST seven days after going at Dudley Town Hall Black Country Boxing Promotions were back in the familiar surrounds of Edgbaston’s H Suite where five bouts went ahead in front of an appreciative crowd.

You never quite know which version of Cameroonian Serge Ambomo might show up but former British title challenger Andrew

Robinson to his dismay found the Sheffieldbased puncher in combative mode and duly fell to a 37-39 loss in a bout refereed by trialist Ryan Churchill and scored by Kevin Parker, a combination which operated throughout.

The Redditch puncher, now 38, had been tagged by a couple of looping early rights before being backed into a corner and rocked in the second. There was worse to come late in the next when a short right dropped him to one knee. Robinson needed something special in the last if he was going to retrieve the situation and though he did enjoy a better session it proved a case of too little, too late.

Brummie Tommy Collins always brings a decent following and they were on hand once more to witness him taking an eighth successive scalp. He didn’t have things all his own way, however, going down after walking onto one from Nicaraguan Eduardo

Valverde with around a minute of the opener remaining and coming under fire again at the end of the fifth. Thankfully for him, he was sufficiently in control of what remained, fast hands and a busy jab seeing him home 58-56 in what proved an enjoyable scrap.

Wins too for Birmingham pair Connor

Goodchild and Jarrett Doherty. Superwelter Goodchild triumphed 40-37 over Bulgarian Petar Aleksandrov who after losing out over four rounds at Dudley had obviously hung around for a week taking in the local sights. Meanwhile, middleweight Jarrett, looking sharp in a six, proved too much for Russian Vasif Mamedov who, trailing by a distance having been floored by a right cross in the third, barely engaged until the last. Mr Parker had it 60-53.