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EPISODE: Episode 39
The UK dominates news on this episode, with the exception of the first story featuring unbeaten pro fighter Hovhannes Bachkov, a national hero in Armenia, who won gold at the European Amateur Championships, and then we feature Marc Leach, and his upcoming fight against Liam Smith, Josh Kelly, heavyweights Hughie Fury and Michael Hunter, and conclude with Young Boxer of The Year Hamzah Sheeraz and his return to the ring at The Copper Box Arena in London on July 16 with a defence of his WBC International Silver title.
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Transcribed:
[ Music, ] hello.
There boxing fans around the world time to join me once again here on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news today, uh we’re going to start today’s episode off uh by visiting the european amateur championships and the winner of the gold medal, uh pohanas back Off out of armenia, now these championships are being held in armenia, so it was quite an event for local fans to get out there and see one of their national heroes actually win gold.
Let’S uh: let’s read the story here: johannes bakoff won a second european amateur championships: gold medal of his career after another, punishing display in yesterday’s final back off an unbeaten professional who is pushing towards towards world title contention returned to the amateur coach to represent armenia in The light welterweight category and 29 year old defeated francis lunas rui in the showpiece, the pro bell and fighter, that’s baka 3-0 in the paid ranks was awarded the gold medal.
After all, five judges gave him the nod with scores of thirty twenty five by four and thirty twenty four after the three rounds back off, who forced a standing count on hamley had been a dominant force throughout the competition was congratulated after his win by armenian german Boxing legend arthur abraham backup by the way, made a similar move back into the amateurs last summer when already a pro to compete at the delayed tokyo olympics and came home with a bronze medal.
Now so now, let’s see the number one seed in the 53.
5 kilogram division back off won the european championship gold in 2017.
I made it through the final five years on after a small semi-final win over richard kovacs.
This past sunday, i think uh back off’s quarterfinal win came over peter novak of the czech republic, which came after an opening powder tournament against great prince joe tires.
So there you go uh keep up to date with the latest news on backup, uh feel free to visit the pro bellum website or boxing247.
com.
Now, let’s move on to some uk news.
Um, the british band super bantamweight champion mark leach, has stated that he takes special satisfaction from knocking young unbeaten hopefuls off their tv perch after a career spent largely flying under the radar.
The highly skilled salford native made people sit up and take notice in october 2020, when he comfortably defeated the unbeaten 2016 olympian queij ashfaz in what was bill.
The final eliminator for shot at the longsdale belt leach was subsequently forced into another final eliminator against thomas asamba.
In june 2021, before being put forward to do battle with the undefeated londoner chris burke at york hall for the vacant title in march, the big punching board was viewed as the full.
The form horse going was viewed as the form horse going into the fight, but leech told anyone who would listen that he would be too elusive and technical for his tv-backed opponent.
Now leech is set to defend his cherished title against another unbeaten fighter in liam davies.
In telford on june 11 and reckons that inflicting a first defeat on a fancy fighter, who’s been given all the advantages makes winning all the more pleasing yeah definitely said the 28 year old for the 18 one-on-one record.
Most of them are very sugar-coated, have had easy fights and have been big platforms, whereas i’ve done all the hardware profit-free been out of pocket and not been on tv shows all the time it is getting to the stage now, where i’m fighting these up-and-coming prospects, or So they say, but there are more of me all around the world who haven’t gotten the opportunity.
I’M just thankful, i’m grateful that i have got this opportunity.
I just want to keep pushing on now and taking the o of off.
Whoever is in my way so mark leach will defend his british super bantamweight title against liam davies on the big night of title action at the telford international center on saturday june 11 and i’ll be live on bt sport in the uk.
Speaking of the uk, we see that josh telly, josh josh kelly, will be going against a fighter to be announced at the m s bank arena in liverpool on the 17th of june josh kelly 10 on the one and one with six knockouts will look to put His name back amongst the division’s best, as he makes his long awaited return to the ring.
As i said on friday june 17th, at the mns bank arena in liverpool as part of an action-packed night of free-to-air boxing live on channel 5 in the uk.
London had previously come calling for funny.
London had previously come calling for kelly and the sunderland lad accepted willingly to get the capital rockin.
However, after vigorous preparations and through no fault of his own, his opponent pulled out of the fight at the last minute.
Kelly had snarled and buried his teeth all week hundred to do business and carrying a steely gaze throughout all noteworthy deterrence to force his opponent into no showing which could be considered a wise move on the part of the opposing camp.
Nevertheless, frustrating circumstances for kelly.
They were left out of his hands.
He says it’s never an ideal situation when you commit to the grind and graft for a whole camp for your opponent to pull the plug at the last minute.
It’S not the first or last time it will happen in boxing.
My job is to prepare and be ready for, whoever, whenever i’ll be leaving no stone unturned come june 17th.
This is bad news, apparently for the rest of the division as an even more prepared.
Josh kelly awaits them all.
Besides having an extra camp under his belt.
The opportunity to exert over 12 months of frustration will be something he’s also relishing.
He concludes.
No one wants to be inactive, but you can look at a completely different light and use the time to fill the gaps and make all your dangerous assets even more deadly.
I can’t wait to give liverpool united kingdom and the world the chance to see josh kelly at his best again fair enough.
Let’S move on to the heavyweights uh huey fury is going toe-to-toe against michael hunter at the ao arena in manchester on july, 2nd leading world heavyweight title contenders, huge fury and michael hunter will face off in a final wba world title eliminator on saturday june, 2nd as I said at the ao arena in manchester.
The wba has ordered that the winner of the fury vs hunter will go play will go on to challenge the winner of the upcoming june 11th wba world title uh, world heavyweight, title fight between defending world champion trevor bryant and british contender, daniel dubois, manchester giant, fury And american danger man hunter, will put everything on the line in this extremely competitive high-stakes crossroads fight with the world title insight for the victor fireworks are guaranteed fury sports, a record of 26 and three with 15 knockouts he’s ranked number four in the was uh rankings.
He’S fired up for his clash with hunter and he’s been focused on the second world, shot title since september 2017, when his challenge up for the wbo world title at just 26 years of age, ended in a controversial points, loss to joe parker fury’s, managed by mckenna.
Sean’S top form last october in newcastle, when he forced rugged rival christian hammer to retire on his stool after five rounds.
Until then, fury was at his best landing, accurate, jabs and uppercuts, and forcing hammer’s first stoppage loss since 2015, defeated by hughes, cousin tyson fury with hammer also taking heavy punchers like tony yoka, alexander povetkin and lewis ortiz to the distance.
The stoppage looks even more impressive on fury’s record, as he stakes his claim for world title shot.
Fury still just 27 was on an unbeaten three three: three win fight with victories against hammer, marius watch and pavel sauer, since his points lost to heavy hitter povetkin.
In august of 2019.
, he says i take fights, everyone avoids michael hunter has fought the best and he’s up there with the best.
These are the fights i want to show who is the best fighter out there? I’M looking forward to this challenge, i believe i’m one of the best fighters in the world – and this is another big fight to prove.
I can stand with the top three in the world heavyweight division, so the wba number two rated hunter who’s 21 and two with 14 knockouts of his own, has been swerved by many of the big names in the division and is targeting his first heavyweight title shot.
After points lost to alexander eusek in 2017 for the wbo world, cruiserweight title and he’ll be aiming to cause a big upset by defeating fury known as the bounty michael’s father mike was a former fringe heavyweight contender in the 80s and 90s, who fought some of the Big names in the area, including foster, mathis, jr, tyrell, biggs and friends.
Both he represented america in the london 2012 olympics and turned pro shortly after starting out in the cruiserweight ranks and quickly putting together an undefeated run before challenging music to highlight the serious threat that hunter presents to fury hunter caused.
A massive upset on his last visit to britain in october 2019 when he stopped the unbeaten prospect, martin piccoli, in the tenth round of a thrilling fight, the referee intervening to wave the fight off when piccoli was defenseless under a flurry of heavy blows.
Since then, hunter has gone unbeaten in seven fights, including 20 uh december 2019 fight uh.
It was a draw with povetkin in saudi arabia, which he believes should rightly have been a decision when in his favor he says, we’re excited to return to manchester and the iconic ao arena for a fight which has everything online.
Huge jury has patiently built his way back to the world title contention and has overcome big challenges along the way.
This is another big test against one of the most avoided fighters in the division said boxer founder and ceo ben shalom.
Huey is just he’s only just about to come into his prime, so if he can get past michael, then he puts himself unquestionably in the mixture world titles in the coming months and years.
Michael will also believe this is the chance he’s waiting for and with such a big opportunity online for the winners.
Both fighters will be giving everything adam smith, sky sports, head of boxing development, said what a fabulous matchup in the blue ribbon division as hu fury has a serious heavyweight test against an excellent michael hunter whose talent we know well on the sky.
Can he now emerge from the shadows to produce a career, best performance or will the classy and avoided american gate crash the world scene? So there you go and that’s a fight that will be available uh.
That’S a quick look here where it will be available.
It doesn’t quite say there are tickets available uh, but it doesn’t say it is being broadcast, and i guess i guess seeing sky who’s being quoted there.
I guess it’s a sky sports event right.
Let’S move along uh having sorted that out to uh someone who we chatted about a little while back hamza shiraz, who was voted.
Uh, uk’s young boxer of the year he’s going up against francisco emmanuel torres at the copper box arena in london on the 16th of july, shiraz returns to the ring on july 16th.
As i said, london’s copper box arena on a night.
That also includes a british title, double featuring both lennox clark and nick ball and will be shown live on bt sport, shiraz, who’s 15-0, with 11 knockouts continues his quest at middleweight with a defense of his wbc international silver title one last time out via defeat of Judd smith, now against the argentinian francisco emmanuel torres who’s 17 3-1 with five knockouts over 10 rounds, birmingham’s lennox clark, who’s 20 one-on-one with eight knockouts, makes his first defense of the british and commonwealth middleweight titles against another big banger in oldham’s mark heffron used 27-2-1 with 21 knockouts in what is certainly to be a made mighty collision with the ibf intercontinental championship belt.
Also, on the line liverpool’s new star nick ball, 15-0, eight knockouts is bidding to add the british and commonwealth featherweight ballots to his wbc civil title.
He’D won defeating isaac, lowe at wembley stadium by taking on the unbeaten scottish talent, nathaniel collins, who’s 11-0, with five knockouts, the exceptional young bantamweight star, dennis the menace mccann 12-0.
Six knockouts makes a jump up to featherweight in a fight over 10 rounds for the vacant.
Wbc international silver title against james beach, jr who’s 14 and two with two knockouts, a two-time british title challenger at super abandoned weight.
Also on the card southampton: snapper ryan, the piranha garner 11-0, six knockouts back in an eight-round fight against the mexican christian lopez torres.
Thirteen.
Eighteen and two with love, knockouts ahead of a likely title challenge next time out with the new queensbury, recruit pierce o’leary, 9-0, five knockouts from dublin fighting over eight at the super lightweight division.
The stacked card also features young light heavyweight star carol, ituama who’s 7-0, with five knockouts in his eighth professional assignment over six rounds with a rising super featherweight massoud, abdullah, who’s 4-0, with four knockouts appearing over the same distance, super bantamweight umar khan, 3-0 and super lightweight Sunny listen, ally, 3-0 will compete in six round contests with welterweights khalid ali tuno and sam nooks wan na know, appearing in four rounders said for voter frank warren of queensbury.
This is going to be an explosive night of boxing.
The boxing writers, young boxer of the year hamza shares, rightly gets top bill in a second fight at middleweight, against an inform francisco torres who is unbeaten in his last den and fought at a really good level.
It’S an ideal international test for hamza.
In a defense of his title, it doesn’t get much better than two british title: fights who are delivering lennox cleric versus mark heffron has got a war written all over it, and neither man is fond of taking a backwards step and both carry huge power.
Neck ball is now a big noise in the featherweight division and he has to fight for the british and commonwealth titles against the highly rated nepali event.
Nathaniel collins who’s been attracting rave reviews for his recent performances.
If nick can add those two belts to his wbc subtitle, he will not be far away from world title contention.
And lastly, he says: dennis mccann is another now taking significant steps forward and the menace is ready to jump up to featherweight and take on a real challenge in james beach jr for the wbc international silver belt.
There you go uh and that’s all the news fit to print today.
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