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SENI: Sat 2nd and Sun 3rd June 2012 at London’s ExCeL

Fight fans eager to check out some pugilism over the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend should head down to SENI, the greatest combat sports show on the planet, where they can watch Matt Hainy take on Kreshnik Qato for the vacant English Middleweight title on Saturday 2nd June over 10 rounds. The showdown takes place at the ExCeL centre, which is the official Olympic venue for all the boxing events.

Qato, whose nickname is ‘The Eagle’ is based in Wembley and originally hails from Albania. He will be keen to clinch the St Georges belt and delight his huge fanbase, especially as Albania hasn’t qualified for the Euro’s this year. The former WBF Middleweight World Champion is managed by Spencer Fearonwhose boxing promotion company Hard Knocks will be hosting the professional boxing at SENI.

Fearon said: “The whole Hard Knocks team are really looking forward to the show, it’s great to be able to collaborate with one of the biggest and definitely the greatest combat sports show there is and it’s especially an honour to work with Joe Long. We’ll be brining some of the famous Hard Knocks energy that my fighters and I always bring – which was proven recently when my fighter Darren Hamilton took the British Light Welterweight title after stepping in to fightAshley Theopane with only five days notice! Hard Knocks for life!”

Hainy recently clinched the biggest fight of his career; beating Luke Robinson for the International Masters title. The 30 year old martial arts instructor from Derby has been sparring with Ryan Rhodes who takes on Sergey Rabchenko for a European title fight later in the month.

Hainy said: “My training was excellent for the Robinson fight and it’s been even better this time. My work rate will be better in this fight and I’m punching harder.”

There is also the highly anticipated comeback of former IBO Light Middleweight title holder, 40 year old Richard ‘the secret’ Williams who takes William Joppy who has held the WBA Middleweight title on three occasions!

Also on the card is Larry Ekundayo, the most exciting talent in British boxing at the moment who will be fighting in what is only his second professional contest. There’s action as 2010 Prizefighter winner Patrick Mendy takes on Geroge Jupp in a Super Middleweight bout. Plus fights from Danny Davis, Alredo Meli and Frankie Monkhouse!

There is also a London ABA event! All of this action takes place within Boxfair, the UK’s only consumer boxing expo that takes place within the SENI show.

SENI offers more boxing for your buck that any other combat sports show on the planet! Punters seeking toe-to-toe action can normally expect to pay anything upwards of £45 for a ticket to a professional boxing match; however visitors purchasing a SENI ticket for only £20 will have access to all parts of the show including the explosive Hard Knocks boxing promotion within Boxfair.

If you needed any more incentive to come along then remember that the SENI 2008 event was the first time David Haye got into Wladimir Klitschko’s face and they had the first of many face-offs. Both David Haye and Derek Chisora normally attend SENI, so could we have another face-off on our hands?

Plus fans can meet many of their past boxing heroes including former Commonwealth, British and World Featherweight champion Colin McMillan who will launch the updated version of his autobiography, Fight the Power at the show.

Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham the former British, Commonwealth and European Middleweight champion boxer will host a skipping exhibition at SENI and talk about his upcoming world record skipping attempt.

Plus there will be appearances from twice World Heavyweight Champion Tim Witherspoon, boxing promoter Frank Maloney and Jane Couch MBE who was the very ever officially licensed British female boxer.

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London - Monday, 28th March 2011

Phil Gill Set For Barker-Spada Undercard On 30th April

Waltham Abbey Light Welterweight Phil Gill is set for major television exposure, when he appears on the undercard of ‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker’s European Middleweight Title showdown with Italian Domenico Spada at the Matchroom Sports promoted event at Olympia in Kensington, London, on Saturday 30th April 2011.

Gill, whose record is 9 wins, 1 draw and no losses, has consistently proved himself to be one of the most crowd pleasing Light Welters on the circuit today. Gill’s nonstop all action performance on his last outing, on Steve Goodwin’s 5th March show, is a prime example of what a wider television audience have been missing, until now.

Gill went to work hard and fast right from the opening bell, letting rip with both hands throughout the first round. His excellent ring craft barely allowed Nesbitt get any meaningful shots of his own in.

Gill didn’t quite get to dominate the second round quite to the level of the first as Nesbitt managed to find his range and let go with a couple of cracking right hands to the body. Gill didn’t drop the pace and just responded with even more fast powerful left and rights.

Round three was more even with both protagonists letting rip with shot after shot in quick succession, in fact this round could have gone to either way as both came so close to stopping the other at one point.

In the first minute Gill let rip with a cracking left-right body head combination but was unable to finish off the clearly shaken Nesbitt. From then on it was a punch trading war until the final seconds when Nesbitt turned the tables with a hard right to the body that really rattled Gill, Nesbitt turned the tables and started to let rip with both hands until the final bell.

The final round was much as before, with both pushing hard. Throughout the contest Gill had not only thrown more shots but also landed the most meaningful ones and was rightly pronounced victor by a 39-37 points margin.

With performances such as this it comes as no surprise that promoter’s like Steve Goodwin have made Gill a regular attraction on his shows and Barry Hearn’s Matchroom Sports concern have decided to include him on the card for such a high profile event as Barker-Spada European Title showdown.

Speaking earlier today an overjoyed Gill said, “Yeah I’ve got on the bill of the Darren Barker show on the 30th April at London Olympia. It’s a big step up for me, obviously it’s in front of a bigger crowd than I’m used to.

I’m really looking forward to that, I wont be fazed by that either as I’m the kind of fighter that performs best in front of a big crowd. I’m getting well excited as there’ll be more people there.

No opponents been named yet as it’s only come about in the last few days. Mickey’s (manager Mickey Helliet) had a show this weekend, so now that show is out of the way we’ll start sorting out the tickets and all the details later this week.

I never got out of the gym after my last fight because we got a young lad from Guernsey training. I know it’s hard training on your own so I’ve been in the gym to train with him as It helps him to work harder.

My style has changed quite a bit since my debut. I’m definitely a come forward fighter. There’s a lot of guys that wont come and fight me because they know they are going to be in for a hard time if they come and fight me. All I ever do is come forward, I’ll never change that because I don’t want to be a boring fighter I always want to be exciting, it’s just not in me to box of the back foot. For me it’s about entertaining, give the crowd the full experience as it were.

I think when the nation sees me on TV they wont want me off of it, I bring a lot to the table being a very exciting fighter. I’m not afraid of getting hit, I know in boxing your not supposed to be getting hit, but you do get hit it’s as simple as that. I not worried about taking a shot, if I have to take a few in a fight it makes it exciting.

If these guys are going to come to fight they’re going to get put over and that’s what you’re going to get on TV. These guys are going to come to fight, because it’s on TV, and they’re going to get put over.

I box to the occasion, the bigger the occasion the better I perform.”

Phil Gill, against a yet to be named opponent will feature on the undercard of the Sky Sports Televised Matchroom Sports promoted vacant European Middleweight Title fight between unbeaten ‘Dazzling’ Darren Barker and Domenico Spada at Olympia in Kensington, London on Saturday 30th April 2011.

For tickets please contact Phil Gill on 07817 594053

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Phil Gill in action against Damien Turner at York Hall In June 2010

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London - Tuesday, March 22

Erick Ochieng: Undaunted By Controversial Loss - Focuses On Title Shot In May

Last Friday night Stoke Newington’s Erick ‘The Eagle’ Ochieng suffered a highly contentious loss to Castleford’s Luke ‘Lionheart’ Robinson at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London.

Ochieng versus Robinson was main support to the co-headlining title fights of Adil Anwar versus Nathan Graham (International Masters) and Peter McDonagh versus Darren Hamilton (Southern Area) at the excellent Hard Knocks Boxing Promotions ‘Shamrock Showdown’ event.

Right from the opening bell Robinson quickly closed down Ochieng, in order to neutralise Ochieng’s highly effective jab. Ochieng was savvy and went on the back foot to find some room to get his jab off.

Robinson kept coming forward, throwing some pretty wild shots, until eventually he had backed Ochieng onto the ropes. Robinson kept throwing wild off target shots at the ever ducking and weaving Ochieng, who in return responded with some highly effective stiff jabs to force Robinson back.

It was a close round, Robinson the more aggressive, but failing to hit the ever moving target, whilst Ochieng was more controlled and getting results by landing good solid jabs.

Round two was more of the same with Robinson pushing. Ochieng on the other hand was content to stay with his back to the ropes and pick off Robinson at will with stiff jabs and punishing one-twos to the body.

An easy round to call as Robinson barely landed a punch for all his wind milling whilst Ochieng, who barely threw a couple of dozen shots throughout the whole round, landed each effort solidly, much to the delight of this fans who in unison chanted ‘Eagle, Eagle, Eagle’ after each contact.

Both rounds three and four were more of the same, Robinson flies out of the trap but ‘The Eagle’ just stays calm and picks him off at will - Robinson pushes forward but barely lands a glove on the ever mobile Ochieng, yet gets caught himself by every precision counter.

The crowd jeer as referee Ken Curtis raises Robinson’s arm aloft declaring him victorious by a 39-38 points margin. the packed York Hall crowd jeer and boo the decision whilst Ochieng and his manager-coach Brian Lawrence look around confused as Robinson celebrates.

Shortly after the result was officially read out promoter Spencer Fearon announced that there will be a rematch at his next show, much to the delight of the assembled crowd.

On returning to training, at the Ultrachem TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town, Ochieng was clearly undaunted with the controversial loss as he said, “I’m disappointed to have lost, but I thank God for the opportunity to fight. I’m going to become stronger from this.

It was supposed to be a six rounder, but it was reduced from a six rounder to a four rounder.

My plan for a six rounder was to break him down and then knock him out.

I rocked him a couple of times but didn’t have enough time to take him out. I lost by just one point.

As I say I am just glad to get the opportunity to fight.

I have terrific supporters, they’re awesome. I just want to thank them all for coming down.

You haven’t seen the best of the Eagle yet, the best is still to come.

I’ve got the Southern Area (title fight) coming up soon and will be back on winning ways then.”

As Ochieng had stated he will be fighting for the Southern Area Light Middleweight title in the near future. However, there is a high possibility that the proposed rematch with Luke Robinson may come first as Spencer Fearon has stated that his next York Hall show will be in May or June.

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Erick ‘The Eagle’ Ochieng at the Ultrachem TKO Boxing Gym in London

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