Aston wins second pro bout in a week

Black Country middleweight Ryan Aston continued to show the form that left George Groves with a black eye.

The skillful southpaw from Dudley (pictured left) registered his second paid win in as many weeks by pounding out a four-round decision over Zahari Mutafchiev, Bulgaria, on the undercard of IBF and WBO heavyweight boss Wladimir Klitschko's one-sided 12-round taming of WBA champion David Haye.

Ex-Priory Park unpaid puncher Aston is handled by Hayemaker Boxing and had won every one of the four sessions scheduled for his debut in Sheffield last week. He battered winless Iain Jackson on that Matchroom-promoted show - topped by Kell Brook's breakout performance against former world champion Lovemore N'Dou - and in doing so looked polished and measured.

And the 20-year-old four-time national amateur champion thoroughly bossed the action in a rain-soaked Hamburg last night (July 2) - seemingly doing as he pleased against a durable fighter who was 17 years his senior and with 15 more paid bouts (four wins) under his belt. 

Aston, now 2-0 and who gave British and Commonwealth 12st monarch Groves that shiner in the run-up to his fight with James DeGale, looks set for a bright future.

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