By Nate Anderson: Former WBU featherweight champion Derry Matthews (21-2, 11 KOs) was stopped in the 9th round of a scheduled 12-round bout by undefeated Martin Lindsay (13-0, 5 KOs) on Saturday in an BBBofC British Featherweight Title Eliminator at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Sheffield, in Yorkshire. Matthews, 24, was ahead in the fight going into the 9th round when Lindsay, 26, tagged him with a huge left hook to the jaw, sending Matthews crashing to the canvas where his head hit the bottom of the rope. It was a case of being knocked out before he even hit the canvas. Referee Marcus McDonnell immediately moved in and stopped the fight at 2:06 of the 9th round.
The ringside doctor was immediately summoned to check on Matthews and oxygen was given to him as a precaution. It was a really bad knockout, reminding me in a lot of ways of lightweight Amir Khan’s recent knockout loss a couple of weeks ago, only worse. For Matthews, who’s ranked #6 in the WBO and #8 in the IBF, it was his second bad knockout in his last three fights. In April, he was stopped by Choi Tseveenpurev in another bad knockout loss. Although Matthews recently rebounded from that loss with an 8-round decision over John Gicharu in July, it appears that it was maybe a little too soon for Matthews to be fighting a tough foe given his almost equally bad stoppage to Tseveenpurev only five months earlier.
By Aaron Klein: In a rather shocking upset, previously unbeaten WBU Featherweight champion Derry Matthews (20-1, 11 KOs) was annihilated by his Mongolian challenger Choi Tseveeenpurev (27-4, 19 KOs) in a 5th round KO loss at the Bolton Arena, Bolton, in Lancashire on Friday night. Matthews, 24, was knocked down a grand total of five times by Tseveenpurev – three times in the third and twice in the fifth round – eventually leading to the referee Dave Parris calling a halt to the bout after the fifth knock down of the fight at 3:00 of the 5th round. 
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten featherweight contender Derry Matthews (20-0, 11 KOs) made easy work of his opponent Nikoloz Berkatsashvili (14-3, 5 KOs), stopping him in the 1st round of a scheduled eight-round bout on Saturday night at the ExCel Arena, Dockland, in London, England. Matthews, 24, dropped Berkatsashvili twice in the first round with left hooks to the midsection. After the second knockdown, the referee counted Berkatsashvili because he was in too much pain and counted make to his feet in time. For Matthews, who’s ranked #4 in the World Boxing Organization and #10 in the International Boxing Federation featherweight divisions, he was simply far too good for the limited Berkatsashvili to handle.