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Boxing: Ryan Hookway is ready for his shot at vacant British...
Leicester welterweight Ryan Hookway gets a title shot next month.He has been matched with Alec Bazza for the vacant British Masters Bronze title in Barnsley on Saturday, November 29.Hookway hopes...
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Boxing: Young pro Sykes handed tough fight
Hinckley slickster Samson Sykes has been handed the toughest fight of his promising professional career. He has been matched with Bobby Jenkinson in a super-bantamweight fight, in Coventry, on...
View ArticleBowen is ready to launch career
Top talent Sam 'Bullet' Bowen launches his professional career this month.Bowen has decided to punch for pay after winning 92 of his 106 amateur bouts with Earl Shilton ABC and will be matched on...
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Boxing: Double delight as Ryan Bennett and Michael Williams...
Leicester fighters Ryan Bennett and Michael Williams were winners in Lincoln.Bennett made it back-to-back wins by outpointing Kristian Laight in a lightweight fight, and Williams dropped the...
View ArticleAmateur boxing: 'Best ever' for Paige Murney
Leicester Unity teenager Paige Murney produced what her coach called her "best-ever performance" in Wolverhampton.Murney was matched with Victoria Morgan (Lions) – and was totally dominant.She handed...
View ArticleAmateur boxing: Logie Rajan picks up award after his points...
Logie Rajan picked up the best senior boxer award at Leicester Railwaymen's ABC's latest show.The 24 year-old featherweight was a points winner over Ashley Westwood (Wodensborough).For a novice, Rajan...
View ArticleBoxing: Win for Sileby's James Button in semi-final
Sileby Boxing Academy's James Button has moved a step closer to the National Development title.He beat New Era's Shane McCullagh in his semi-final, producing his best performance to date.He threw...
View ArticleBoxing: Sileby's James Button misses out in Nationals
Sileby Boxing Academy's James Button missed out on the National junior development title despite a gutsy showing in the final.He lost to Joe Voight from the Isle of Sheppey after three closely-fought...
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Big Quiz 2014: Test your knowledge of a memorable sporting year
See how you get on in our big sports quiz from 2014, tackling questions from the World Cup to Leicester City to cricket to Leicester Tigers to the Commonwealth Games and much more. The answers will be...
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Big Quiz 2014 - the answers
Here are the answers to our big sporting quiz from yesterday. How did you get on?Football – general: 1 James Chester. 2 Sevilla and Benfica. 3 Kenya. 4 Tony Pulis. 5 Win the Champions League and World...
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Boxing: 'Exciting' prospect Leon Woodstock all set to turn...
Leicester power-puncher Leon Woodstock has announced he is turning professional.Woodstock, ranked third in the country by Boxing News after reaching the semi-finals of the England Boxing Elite...
View ArticleBoxing: 'I can be the new Naseem Hamed,' says Louis Norman
Daddy's boy Louis '2 Sweet' Norman is planning to be the new 'Naz',The English flyweight champion, pictured above, has split with the Shinfields' camp and signed a three-deal with manager Clifton...
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Boxing: Title fight for Hinckley's Sullivan Mason as Sam Bowen...
Hinckley welterweight Sullivan Mason has got a title shot in his next fight.He has been matched with Kevin McCauley for the vacant International Bronze title at Bedworth Civic Hall on Saturday, March...
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Boxing: Jahmaine Smyle ready for shot at English title
Leicester powerhouse Jahmaine Smyle has got a shot at the vacant English super-middleweight title.The 28-year-old from Northfields will meet Lee Markham for the St George's belt, in Bethnal Green, on...
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Boxing: Stevan Miller draws title fight with Decca Heggie
Hinckley's Stevan Miller topped the bill at a night of boxing and bare knuckle boxing (BKB) in Eyres Monsell.The 6ft 7in, 20-stone celebrity bodyguard drew his BKB UK heavyweight title fight with...
View ArticleBoxing: Points win for Brown
Leicester Unity teenager Kenan Brown-Wingfield chalked up a good win in Scunthorpe.Brown, a former National Schools and Three Nations champion, powered to a points win over Chris Farrow (Centurions) in...
View ArticleBoxing: James Button is through in the ABAs
Sileby Boxing Academy's James Button produced a polished performance to win through to the quarter-finals of the ABA junior championships.Button outboxed Kettering's Michael Wallis to earn his place in...
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Boxing: Josh Quailey plans big return
Melton super-heavyweight Josh Quailey is back for the England Boxing Elite Championships that start this month.Two years ago, Quailey reached the last four, but a knee injury has kept him out of the...
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Boxing: 'I want great champions in ring for last swansong'
Local prospect Adam Jarvis tops the bill when former heavyweight boxer Scott Lansdowne promotes his latest show on at Liquid nightclub, in Leicester, on March 28.For Lansdowne, who has the scalp of...
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Boxing: Title win will prove doubters wrong – Jahmaine...
Leicester powerhouse Jahmaine Smyle says winning the English super-middleweight title tomorrow night will prove Chris Pyatt right – and everyone else wrong.Pundits wrote off Smyle following a pair of...
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