Sunderland’s Kirk Goodings is the new English lightweight champion after coming through a tremendous ten-round tussle against Middlesbrough’s Paul Truscott to claim the vacant title. On Saturday evening (October 19) at Houghton-le-Spring’s Rainton Meadows Arena, Goodings emerged a unanimous points victor over his North East rival, with the judges’ wide […]
Pro Box North East would like to invite the region’s boxing fans to attend an open weigh-in ahead of their professional boxing show which takes place on Saturday October 19 at the Rainton Meadows Arena (Houghton Le Spring, DH4 5PH). The weigh-in will take place at 12pm on Friday October […]
Middlesbrough’s Paul Truscott will look to bounce back from a KO defeat last time out by claiming the vacant English lightweight title against Kirk Goodings on October 19. Paul, beaten in eight rounds in July against hard-hitting Ghanaian Richard Commey, gets a tough test in Sunderland’s Goodings but the Tees […]
The Northeast gets a terrific derby title fight on October 19 when Sunderland’s Kirk Goodings takes on Middlesbrough’s Paul Truscott for the English lightweight crown at the Rainton Meadows Arena. Truscott (pictured) is the former Commonwealth featherweight champion, and British super-featherweight title challenger, who needs a career-lifting victory after suffering […]
Sunderland promoter Phil Jeffries is promising North East boxing fans that it’s 50-50 fights on his cards or nothing in the future, as he heads into his next ‘Pro Box North East’ show at the Rainton Meadows Arena on October 19. True to his word, Jeffries, father of former Olympian […]
Jon-Lewis Dickinson (14st 3½lbs) is still the British cruiserweight champion after seeing off the challenge of Mike Stafford (13st 13lbs) at Houghton-le-Spring’s Rainton Meadows Arena on April 19. Southport’s Stafford gave Dickinson problems for the first four sessions, throwing wide shots over the guard and down to the body, but […]
Pro Box North East will showcase some of the best boxing talent in the region on Friday April 19, when Jon-Lewis Dickinson (pictured) makes the second defence of his British cruiserweight title at Houghton-le-Spring’s Rainton Meadows Arena. Dickinson faces a tough test in the shape of Merseyside’s Mike Stafford, who […]
Some of the North East’s best boxers will be in action at the Rainton Meadows Arena on April 12, following the announcement of Pro Box North East’s next show. Topping the 11-fight card will be Sunderland’s explosive Prizefighter winner, Glenn Foot, who will step up to eight rounds for the […]
For someone who just wants to fight, Paul Truscott’s career has been frustratingly stop-start. The Middlesbrough man is delighted then – having not thrown a punch in anger since losing a British super-featherweight title fight to Gary Buckland a year ago – to be finally getting out when he appears […]
Readers … lend me your ears. When the North East’s only ever former world boxing champion, Glenn McCrory, says good times are ahead then it’s worth paying heed … he is, after all, a big fella’! McCrory, Sky Sports’ longstanding pundit, is, definitely onto something.
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