Gavin Rees Boxing News

Prizefighter winners Gavin Rees and Willie Casey both face major title fights on Saturday 6 November.

Boxing results: Kings Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland: Paul McCloskey KO 11 Giuseppe Lauri EBU (European) light welterweight title Kevin McIntyre UD 10 Stephen Haughian Carl Frampton dec 6 Ian Bailey McArthur TKO 2 Graham Fearn Gavin Rees TKO 3 Sam Amoako Andy Murray TKO 2 Jon Baguley

By Peter Wells: It’s the final Prizefighter of the year, and we end with a cracker down at Light Welterweight, after all the excitement on December 4th it’ll all be over with for this year. We start with the oldest fighter in the competition, Jason Cook, the former European and IBO Lightweight champion; he has [...]

By Nate Anderson: In the latest boxing news, former WBA light welterweight champion Gavin Rees (27-1, 13 KOs) is reportedly high on the list for future opponents for the undefeated Amir Khan’s (17-0, 13 KOs) next bout on June 21st. Previous to Rees recent 12th round TKO title loss to Andreas Kotelnik on March 22nd, [...]

By Chris Stein: I’m in agreement with writer Dan Ambrose about his opinion of former WBA super lightweight champion Gavin Rees (27-1, 13 KOs), who he sees as an incredibly talented fighter whose fight with Andrea Kotelnik (29-2-1, 13 KOs) shouldn’t have been stopped by the referee prematurely. Rees was only briefly stunned and was [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In one of the most heroic fights I’ve seen in some time, WBA light welterweight champion Gavin Rees (27-1, 13 KOs) fought bravely last night against the much harder punching Andreas Kotelnik (29-2-1, 13 KOs), fighting him literally tooth and nail before succumbing in the 12th round on what looked to be [...]

By Aaron Klein: WBA light welterweight champion Gavin Rees (27-0, 13 KOs) puts his unbeaten record on the line this Saturday night when he takes on Ukrainian challenger Andreas Kotelnik (28-2-1, 12 KOs) at the International Arena, Cardiff, in Wales. Other than the location of the fight, Kotelnik, ranked #1 in the WBA light welterweight [...]

Gavin Rees says he’ll give Amir Khan a pasting – after he’s dealt with Andreas Kotelnik in Cardiff on Saturday night. The Rock defends his WBA light-welterweight crown at the CIA against his dangerous mandatory challenger, live on Setanta Sports. But he believes he will win – and then go on to wreck the career [...]

According to the latest reports, Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) isn’t interested in choosing World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Gavin Rees as his next opponent. The bout, if it were to have taken place, would have been on that was mainly of interest to British fans, as very few Americans have heard or seen [...]

In a move that I would have expected, there is talk of former light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) going up against undefeated World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Gavin Rees (27-0, 13 KOs), arguably the worst of the four champions in the division. If they wanted to rebuild Hatton’s shot confidence, a [...]

In the latest boxing news, World Boxing Association junior welterweight champion Gavin Rees (27-0, 13 KOs) wants to take on fellow Brit Ricky Hatton, who recently was destroyed by Floyd Mayweather Jr in a humiliating 10th round TKO at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rees, 27, is an almost mirror image of Hatton, [...]