Yefimovych stops Pickering

oleg34By Nate Anderson: European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight champion Oleg Yefimovych (17-1, 11 KO’s) made easy work of former British and EBU super bantamweight champion Esham Pickering (34-9, 13 KO’s), knocking him down three times and stopping him in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Sportpalace Drusba, in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Yefimovych, 27, knocked the 33-year-old Pickering down two times at the end of the 2nd round. At the start of the 3rd round, Yefimovych nailed Pickering with a big left hand that sent Pickering down by the ropes.

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Appleby Gives Pickering a Boxing Lesson

Image: Appleby Gives Pickering a Boxing LessonBy Nate Anderson: BBBofC British featherweight champion Paul Appleby (13-0, 8 KOs) dominated former BBBofC/EBU (European) super bantamweight champion Esham Pickering (33-8, 13 KOs) on Friday night, beating him by an easy 12-round unanimous decision at the Bellahouston Sports Centre, in Glasgow, Scotland. The final judges’ scores were 116-113, 117-112 and 117-111.

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Matthew Marsh Defeats Esham Pickering

marsh463446.jpgBy Nate Anderson: In a punching display that reminded me of a prime Ricky Hatton, super bantamweight Matthew Marsh (10-1, 1 KOs) out-slugged champion Esham Pickering (22-7, 13 KOs), defeating him over 10 toughly competitive rounds to win a 10-round unanimous decision on Friday night at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, in London. Marsh, a fighter with only average power, looked powerful enough to cause Pickering huge problems in the fight, keeping under a constant rain of huge hooks and right hands to the head, and preventing Pickering from getting his high volume offense in gear.

A lot of the times, Marsh looked like a carbon copy of Hatton, only better, as he was able to land beautiful combinations to the body without getting hit with left hooks like Hatton normally does as he charges in to throw his wild hooks. Marsh out-worked Pickering in two of the first three rounds, looking as if he was taking out all the stops in order to capture Pickerings’ BBBofC British super bantamweight title.

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Pickering Stops Hughes

Sham Pickering (33-6, 13 KOs) gained revenge on Friday night against Sean Hughes (14-7-1, 1 KOs) by stopping him in the 9th round of a scheduled 12-round bout for the BBofC British super bantamweight title at the Meadowside Leisure Centre, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Pickering, hurt Hughes with two big right hands in the 9th round, causing the referee move in and stop the bout, although it appeared to be a premature stoppage.

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