Kevin McCauley shocked a partisan Glaswegian crowd to outpoint local favourite Craig Windsor Jr for the vacant British Masters 11st belt on Friday night [November 4].Windsor had been chasing a British title fight but the sturdy Stourbridge scrapper [pictured on the attack] put paid to the Scotsman's ambitions with a dominate display that secured him his second professional title.
Kenny Pringle handed the Errol Johnson-handled Black Countryman a 97-95 [or presumably 5-3-2 in rounds] decision after a tough ten that could have, it's said, easily have gone the other way at the Hilton Hotel.
McCauley had been on a run of ten successive defeats but several of those had been at middleweight and in excellent company. But the 32-year-old former Midland Area welterweight boss boxed ruggedly to hand the Peter Harrison-trained puncher his second loss in nine [seven wins, two inside].
The new champion's victory added the tenth win to his professional ledger in 43 [three draws].
But there were defeats on the same bill for two other Midlanders. In a four-rounder between two winless middleweights, Nottingham's Andy Hardy lost out 39-37 to Paisley's Craig Kelly. Scot Calow-trained Hardy is now without a victory in six. Stoke's Marvin Campbell saw his paid log fall to two defeats in two with a first-round stoppage defeat to big-punching Ronnie Clark, who secured his second inside-the-distance win in three [all wins].
On the same night, at the Doncaster Dome, South Yorkshire, durable twosome Kristian Laight, Nuneaton, and Delroy Spencer, Walsall, lost every round over four to a pair of first-timers. 119-bout Laight was shut-out by Adam Dingsdale; Spencer, in paid fight 140, by fast-handed Connor Nixon.
And last night [November 5], at Wembley Arena, Sedgley light-middle Tom Bowen looked to have done more than enough to end the unbeaten run of George Michael Carmen in a six-threes screened live on BoxNation before the exciting-looking WBO Interim lightweight title clash between Ricky Burns and Michael Katsidis.
But referee Bob Williams marked the 18-minute bout 57 apiece, leaving Bowen's trainer Errol Johnson furious. He had a point. I thought Bowen won four of the six, with the local ticket-seller edging the fourth and sharing the fifth, for a 59-56 scoreline - as did commentators John Rawling and Enzo Maccarinelli.
Bowen, whose record now reads 3-2-1, was competing in his first contest over three-minute rounds but showed little fear about his fitness as he forced Carmen, now 6-0-1, onto the back foot and unsettled the southpaw with straight rights. The pattern continued through rounds two and three, with the Black Country 22-year-old consistently out-working the Frank Warren-promoted prospect.
Carmen was a good amateur who holds paid wins over three other Midlanders - Andrew Patterson, Matt Seawright and West Brom lefty Wayne Downing [twice] - but only edged the fourth, hung on for a share of the fifth, and was bullied onto the ropes and out-landed in the final three minutes.
Poor decision.
Birmingham's Sid Razak, who took a session off unbeaten and neat-boxing Francis Luke Robinson [son of former world featherweight champion Steve] before going down 39-37, and Worcester's Billy Smith, who was shut-out over four by London debutant Gary Corcoran, also boxed on the nine-fight bill.
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