SUPER STRAND
LIVERPOOL
JULY 30
DESPITE a number of contests being called off at late notice, Pat Barrett’s Black Flash Promotions show at The Devonshire House Hotel in Liverpool saw seven solid bouts that, although sometimes lacking in quality, more than made up for it in terms of excitement for a packed and partisan crowd.
With English super-flyweight champion Marcel Braithwaite, rising star Nick Ball plus recent Commonwealth super-bantamweight title challenger Carly Skelly all seeing their contests cancelled for varying topped the bill and he gained his fifth win from five with a fine stoppage victory over Middleton’s always awkward southpaw Stephen Maguire.
