Jason Welborn had vowed to win the Midland Area title in spectacular fashion - and kept to his word with a clinical display of punching.
The 25-year-old ripped the welterweight title from champion Sean McKervey in three one-sided rounds, on a YouTube and Hatton Boxing-streamed three-bout show promoted by First Team last night [November 18], and has now put himself into the mix for the English belt next year.
Though the Coventry southpaw was coming off back-to-back reversals in 2011, including a stoppage loss last time out, Sean was still expected to give the Errol Johnson-trained prospect a career-hardest test. Indeed, he won the British Masters title with a three-round crushing of Wayne Downing and the Midland title with a points nod over Kevin McCauley last year [both Johnson-handled fighters].
But he had no answer to the aggression of heavily-tattooed Welborn [pictured above], who shook the 28-year-old champion with a fast-handed right in the opening three minutes. McKervey (10st 6lbs), who is never in a bad contest, entered the fight with a black eye and was stunned again with the right as the challenger continued to plow forward during the second.
Yet the 15-fight [eight wins and two draws, one stoppage] West Midlander put some nice punches together before he was sent hurtling to the canvas by a left in the third. Though McKervey managed to beat the count, Welborn repeated the trick - this time with a right - and referee Shaun Messer sensibly ended the slaughter at 1-26.
"I've boxed with a broken hand in my last three fights so just put the rounds in the bank and didn't look to get the job done early," admitted a bull-strong puncher who started his paid career at super-middleweight, has only lost to Nottingham's slippery Ingle-trained Tyan Booth, and who's improved immensely since a link-up with Errol in Wednesbury.
"But my hand is fine, i relaxed and didn't look to get the KO, and look what happened when i opened up on him. I think i sent a message to the welterweights of Britain with that display," roared the well-supported new champion (10st 7lbs) from Rowley Regis, whose paid record now improves to 8-1 (3).
Promoter PJ Rowson added: "He showed that he can listen and box to instruction when he's been told to. There are bigger fights to come for him."
In the four-twos show-opener in front of a good-sized crowd at Walsall Town Hall, Saquib 'Zak The Ripper' Amir (9st 6 1/4lbs) returned to the win column with a 40-36 verdict from Mr Messer [scoring on the outside for trialist referee Gareth Morris] over Nottinghamshire-based Latvian Pavels Senkovs (9st 7lbs).
Amir has had all three [now 2-1] of his paid bouts at the Town Hall but slipped to an unexpected defeat to winless Dan Naylor last month. But he's now being trained in Wednesbury by Errol Johnson, who took Young Mutley a British title, and though open-guarded at times he dug-in enough heavy-looking hooks to the body to run out a wide winner.
Athough i gave Matt Scriven-handled Senkovs, who slipped to loss 39 in 44, the second for a 39-37 tally after an always-watchable four, 28-year-old 'Zak The Ripper' was a worthy winner.
No comments:
Post a Comment