by Geoff Poundes This evening at the Sheffield Motorpoint Arena Kell “Special K” Brook at last confirmed his early promise by comprehensively outpointing Ricky’s younger brother Matthew Hatton over twelve one-sided rounds. Barry Hearn’s Matchroom promotion had made much pre-fight of the origins of these two English warriors, so that the fight took place in a highly … [Read more...]
Ryan Rhodes Inches Back Into Action This Weekend
This Saturday night in the boxing backwater of Rotherham in the UK, Ryan Rhodes makes a quiet return to the ring after a disappointing summer in which he mounted a somewhat tame and ultimately fruitless challenge on the WBC Light-Middleweight title held by young prodigy Saul Alvarez. There were those of us here in the UK (your correspondent included) who thought Rhodes, 45-5 … [Read more...]