Haskins defeats Broadhurst; Jeffries, Arthur, Price all victorious

By Boxing News - 12/12/2009 - Comments

haskins4534ByWilliam Mackay: In a truly ugly card with marred by horrible mismatches, BBBofC British super flyweight champion Lee Haskins (20-2, 10 KO’s) defeated Commonwealth super flyweight champion Don Broadhurst (11-1, 3 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Friday night at the Newport Leisure Centre, in Newport, Wales. Haskins, 26, made the fight hard to watch with his constant clinching and punches to the back of the head.

He may not have tried to throw them in that location during many of the clinches, Haskins would tag Broadhurst to the back of the head. It was ugly fighting because the two styles didn’t match. I don’t know what kind of style would match up well with Haskins, because he has a way of hitting and holding immediately. That kind of style is hard to fight.

Haskins got the better of Broadhurst in the first two rounds with his tricky style of fighting. Haskins needlessly switched from southpaw to orthodox for some reason. I have no idea why he was doing it because Broadhurst already had his hands full with the clinching. This just seemed like wasted nervous energy on Haskins part.

In rounds three and four, Broadhurst landed the better shots, the few that they were. Broadhurst seemed entirely unable to hit Haskins with any degree of accuracy. Much of the time, Broadhust would miss and then fall into a clinch with Haskins. There was a lot of clinching and rabbit punches in the 5th round with only a small handful of punches that actually landed. In rounds five through ten, Haskins continued to do a little bit better work.

By this time, the fight was about as interesting to watch as going to the dentist and having teeth pulled. Haskins style of fighting was awful to look at for me, and between the clinching, hitting on the break and rabbit punches, I was put off by the fighting. Broadhurst didn’t have a clue – or the power – with with how to fight him and pretty much was out of his element. In rounds eleven and twelve, Broadhurst came back a little bit and landed some shots. However, it was too little too late. He had given away too many rounds by then to get the win.

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In what turned out to be a huge mismatch, former 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Tony Jeffries (5-0, 4 KO’s) stopped journeyman Andrejs Tolstihs (3-17-1, 3 KO’s) in the 1st round of a scheduled six round bout. Jeffries knocked the over-matched Tolstihs down with a left hook in the opening minute of the 1st round. Tolstihs, 30, got up and was met with a storm of punches and put down again, this time with a right hand to the head. He got up again and was put down with another left hand to the head. Referee Roddy Evans then stepped in and halted the bout at 2:17 of the round.

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In another mismatch on the card, 2008 Olympian heavyweight David Price (4-0, 3 KO’s) destroyed Dmitrijs Basovs (3-3) in a 1st round stoppage. Basovs went down with the first punch he was hit with, a hard right hook. The punch appeared to injure Basovs’ left eye, as he stayed down holding his eye. Referee Wynford Jones then stopped the bout at 0:33 of the 1st round. Price, 26, looked embarrassed at how easy it was.

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Other boxing results on the card:

Karl Place TKO 2 Dan Stewart
Jamie Arthur W 6 Mickey Coveney
Martin Power TKO 5 Matthew Edmonds
Tom Dallas TKO 1 Jevgenijs Stamburskis
Sam Webb W 6 Paul Morby



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