stegsie
03-30-2009, 08:27 AM
MIKE GOMEZ – Has officially announced his retirement after loosing a challenge for the Commonwealth title on Friday night against Ricky Burns. Mike has been showing signs of old age but felt there would be enough left to beat Burns and win a title that was missing from his collection , it was not to be but Mike did not disgrace himself. The fight was being controlled by Burns but Mike had his moments and a uppercut in the fifth had Burns doing a Zab Judah and he remained on wobbly legs until the bell , the predator of old would clearly have finished the job. The plans to get inside and work away were not working due to continued holding by Burns -which was finally punished by the referee by taking a point after numerous warning – the referee waved the contest off in the Seventh after Mike had been pinned to the ropes with a left elbow in the throat whilst being hit by the right followed by a barrage of shots, Mike was taking a knee and we thought the interruption was to warn Burns again , it was not. Therefore Mike goes out to a controversial decision which has been a pattern of his life , he has been a soldier to the cause of British Boxing and lets all hope he finds something to enjoy in his retirement.
TONY QUIGLEY - Karl Ince recently dubbed him as the new ‘Rocky Marciano’ and that rang true on Saturday night in Liverpool when he stopped Tony Dodson to win the British Super-Middleweight title in the final round of the contest. After a tense feel around opening round , Rocky exploded in the second flooring Dodson twice and threw a load of punches to get him out of there early - Tony Dodson some how survived and managed to change the script in the next round. We expected the third round to be a quick finish but Rocky had nearly punched himself out in that second and Dodson must have seen it as his last chance , so came out fiercely and won the round in complete turn around. He then went on to dominant the rounds up to the tenth with Rocky taking many flush shots but not wilting or looking like going down , he had only ever done 6 rounds and had been conserving energy for the end. The eleventh saw the change when the power punching that had been missing from the second came back and again Dodson saw the canvas but survived the round , he did not survive the final one when a revived Quigley decked him twice and was about to again before the referee rightfully jumped in. A cracking fight had been witnessed.
LEE JENNINGS – Had a comfortable points win over Karl Taylor early on the Liverpool Echo big bill on Saturday night before getting out to watch his stable mate and friend win the British title .
MIKE ROBINSON - Anotherfighter from the Tony Quigley Snr stable was also there to cheer Tony on and the little fellow had double reason to feel happy as it was confirmed that on St Georges day he will fight for the English Super Flyweight title against Ross Burkinshaw.
TONY QUIGLEY - Karl Ince recently dubbed him as the new ‘Rocky Marciano’ and that rang true on Saturday night in Liverpool when he stopped Tony Dodson to win the British Super-Middleweight title in the final round of the contest. After a tense feel around opening round , Rocky exploded in the second flooring Dodson twice and threw a load of punches to get him out of there early - Tony Dodson some how survived and managed to change the script in the next round. We expected the third round to be a quick finish but Rocky had nearly punched himself out in that second and Dodson must have seen it as his last chance , so came out fiercely and won the round in complete turn around. He then went on to dominant the rounds up to the tenth with Rocky taking many flush shots but not wilting or looking like going down , he had only ever done 6 rounds and had been conserving energy for the end. The eleventh saw the change when the power punching that had been missing from the second came back and again Dodson saw the canvas but survived the round , he did not survive the final one when a revived Quigley decked him twice and was about to again before the referee rightfully jumped in. A cracking fight had been witnessed.
LEE JENNINGS – Had a comfortable points win over Karl Taylor early on the Liverpool Echo big bill on Saturday night before getting out to watch his stable mate and friend win the British title .
MIKE ROBINSON - Anotherfighter from the Tony Quigley Snr stable was also there to cheer Tony on and the little fellow had double reason to feel happy as it was confirmed that on St Georges day he will fight for the English Super Flyweight title against Ross Burkinshaw.