Amateur boxers excel on exciting fight night in Morecambe

Coastal Amateur Boxing Club held its first show of the season which saw home fighters put on a series of exciting displays.

The show, held at Red Rose Community Centre in Morecambe on Friday, began with four 'skills' fights, where the judges do not score, involving Coastal's William Woodhouse, Ollie Gill, Thea Harrison and Watipa Mwanyisa.

The bouts, where the judges were scoring, got under way as Teddie Tyson from Coastal faced Rocco de Ville from Selby Boxing Academy. Teddie seemed to have done more than enough to deserve the decision but a controversial split verdict went the way of his opponent.

McKenzy Wardman soon put Coastal on winning ways as he stopped Louis Graham from Manx ABC in the first round of a dominant display.

Isaac Hermi then lost a unanimous points verdict to Josh Powell of Clayton ABC, before southpaw Charlie Turner of Coastal edged an exciting bout with James Buglass of Tameside Elite, winning via split decision.

Charlie Turner (left) in action

Charlie Sugden-Brook defeated Riley Jones of Coastal who retired on his stool before the start of the second round after being given standing counts in the first.

Then Henry Onwuharonye's come-forward aggression went up against the more eye-catching punches of Coastal's Aiden Thompson in a hard-fought battle. The Furness Catholic boxer was given the nod by split decision. 

Tommy Galvin of Coastal did himself proud in an excellent three-round contest, showing good upper body movement to evade punches from the well-schooled Callan Appleby of Golden Team and landing plenty of his own hooks in a give-and-take encounter. But Appleby came on strong late on, and won a unanimous decision.

The final bout of an absorbing night of boxing came when Lewis Mountain, of the Lancaster School of Boxing, put on a terrific performance of pressure fighting to deservedly decision Adam Badger of Redcar ABC.

Troy Gallagher, local undefeated professional, was at the show to present trophies to the boxers.