Undefeated Coseley light-middleweight Jamie Ball lifted the vacant Midland Area light-middleweight title on his second attempt with an eight-round KO over hard-as-nails Nottinghamshire scrapper Andrew Alan (A.A) Lowe on Saturday night (February 26).
First Team (PJ Rowson and Errol Johnson) promoted the seven-fight card at Walsall Town Hall, which was the first time professional boxing had been at the town centre venue since the pair put in a show here in October 2006.
And 12-fight (11 wins, two inside) unbeaten southpaw Ball (10st 13 3/4lbs), who was held to a draw against Keiron Gray in his first crack at this belt in December, ground-down the former Marine, now 8-4 (1), forcing referee Bob Williams to count him out after absorbing a left to the body 43 seconds into the eighth of a scheduled ten.
Truth be told, the Black Country boxer (pictured) was simply too big for the Carl Greaves-handled Newark scrapper (10st 13 1/2lbs), making his natural advantages in size more and more evident as the interesting fight progressed.
Now with his first belt strapped around his 11st waist, there's plenty of options for 26-year-old Ball - and Jon Pegg hinted that he'd be interested in putting his charge, erratic Brummie brawler Terry Carruthers, in with the newly-crowned Midland Area king.
On the subject of former decent pro Pegg, another one of his fighters - have-a-go welterweight Andrew Patterson (10st 10 1/2lbs) - registered his fourth paid win (and his fourth stoppage) with a final-round stoppage over undefeated hometown hero Danny Clews (10st 11 1/2lbs).
Willing and tough, Patterson is quickly getting a reputation as one of the most dangerous journeyman on the pro circuit. He's scalped two undefeated men, and destroyed the hopes of two touted debutants. On top of that, 'Patt' held unbeaten Matt Doyle and Keith Sheen to draws in his 22 fights.
But Clews, 22, sliced open his durable opponent in the opening round and was probably edging the contest until the 31-year-old from Birmingham unleashed a cluster of punches that prompted referee Rob Chalmers to dive in and rescue the Walsall welter at 1:45.
Eastern European fighters are always interesting; they're either durable or fold like a piece of soggy paper. And the two brought in to face unbeaten Black Country duo, Dudley's Chris Male (9st 2 1/2lsb), 10-0 (1) and West Bromwich's Lee Glover (9st 3/4lbs), now 5-0 (2), definitely belong in the latter category.
But that wasn't to be expected, in truth. A quick glance of the resume of the Bulgarian pair, Fikret Remziev (9st 2 1/4lbs), who was decked twice and iced in the opening round of a six-threes by Male, and Plamen Kostadinov (9st 3/4lbs), who was also dropped and knocked out - this time in three by 'Tipton Slasher' Glover - showed only a combined eight stoppage defeats in almost 30 outings.
Yet Mr Chalmers counted out Remziev 2:28 into the first stanza; Williams tolling the ten count over Kostadinov after 37 seconds of the third of a set six-threes. Both Glover, only 23, and Male, the British Masters super-featherweight champion, are talented men who could do with a step up.
Other results saw Stafford first-timer Grant Cunningham (11st 11lbs) drop (round five) and outpoint Scunthorpe's Davy Jones (11st 8 1/4lbs) over six-twos. Jones was sliced open in the second and Bob Williams' 60-53 scoreline highlighted the Staffordshire super-middleweight's superiority.
There was a winning debut for Sedgley's Tom Bowen (10st 11lbs), who was given a 40-37 four-twos nod over Tamworth's always-willing Matt Seawright (10st 13 3/4lbs). But Myles Holder's (11st 5 3/4lbs) four-fight winning run was brought to an end by durable Ryan Clark (11st 8 1/2lbs), who earned a 38 apiece four-twos draw.
Referee for both was Mr Chalmers.
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