With the poise of a seasoned veteran, Palm Springs, California’s Timothy ‘Desert Storm’ Bradley made the most of his first world title shot Saturday at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England, decisioning highly regarded hometown hero Junior Witter over 12 rounds to win the WBC junior welterweight championship of the world.
Scores were 115-113, 114-113, and 112-115 for Bradley, who used a sixth round knockdown of Witter to help earn the victory.
Hennessy Sports in association with GoldenPalace.com can announce important news… Canada’s only national pay Television Network Super Channel will now be televising the WBC Super Lightweight Championship of the world between Junior Witter and Timothy Bradley Jr. at the Trent FM Arena Nottingham at a new revised time of 10.45pm ET/PT. Super Channel will also be showing the International Super Middleweight contents between the WBC # 1 Rated Super Middleweight and mandatory challenger Carl Froch versus Poland’s undefeated and tough Albert Rybacki.
By Chris Williams: Though many boxing scribes still feel that former IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) is the best fighter in the light welterweight division, he’s beginning to get diminishing support among many fans for his steadfast refusal to fight WBC light welterweight champion Junior Witter (36-1, 21 KOs), who has been calling him out for the past two years without luck. Hatton has said that he doesn’t want to fight Witter because of the way that Witter is constantly calling him out in the press.
However, if Hatton has kept his eyes open in the sport during his career, he’d have seen that this is how it’s always done. That is, when one fighter wants to fight another fighter, particularly one that is more popular than them, they talk to the press and call out the fighter by saying something negative about them in one way or another. Hatton, for all his excuses about not like having Witter calling him out, did just that when he made negative comments in the media about Floyd Mayweather Jr. before they decided to fight one another. Mayweather, in turn, responded to Hatton with his own war of words. Shortly after that, the two agreed to fight. So, Hatton’s feelings of not liking what Witter is doing by calling him out seem to equate to something else, more likening to him just not wanting to fight him period regardless of what Witter is saying or not saying about him personally.
ShoBox: The New Generation returns to the United Kingdom on May 10, 2008, with an outstanding world title showdown and a promising undercard bout featuring two undefeated prospects..
On a special Saturday night edition of the popular, prospect-oriented SHOWTIME boxing series, World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Lightweight Champion Junior Witter will defend his crown for the third time when he takes on WBC No. 1 contender Timothy Bradley at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England (same day tape delay at 10:45 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME).
By Michael Lieberman: As WBC light welterweight champion Junior Witter prepares for next week’s battle against #1 ranked challenger Timothy Bradley (21-0, 11 KOs) at the Nottingham Arena, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Witter, 34, hasn’t given up on his foremost goal of facing Ricky Hatton in the near future. However, with that goal in mind, Witter is hoping to defeat Bradley, 24, in an impressive fashion, so much so that Hatton will be forced to fight him rather than to continue to ignore him like he’s done in the past three years. Witter, however, needs to not look past Bradley, who is a hard-hitting knockout artist and perhaps the best rising star in the junior welterweight division.
It’s a credit to Witter that he’s chosen to face Bradley rather than ducking him like many fighters tend to do when faced with an equally tough challenger like him. Witter, though, has never ducked a tough opponent in his career, instead opting to fight the hardest fights possible in order to further his career and learn from it in the process. Bradley has many of the same attributes that Witter has, such as blazing fast hands and an excellent air tight defense. However, Bradley hits much harder than Witter and has true one-punch power. Though Witter doesn’t hit nearly as hard as Bradley, he makes up for it by his unorthodox punching style, which makes him capable of throwing punches from all angles when his opponents least expect it.
Boxing’s hottest junior welterweight prospect, 21-year old ‘Vicious’ Victor Ortiz, has been added as the featured attraction on the undercard of Oscar de la Hoya’s “Homecoming” bout against Steve Forbes this Saturday night at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Oxnard, California’s Ortiz (20-1-1, 15 KOs), coming off of a devastating first round knockout win over former world champion Carlos Maussa last November, will face seasoned veteran Dairo Esalas (31-12, 25 KOs) in a 10-round bout.
Junior Witter is looking forward to impressing a big TV audience in the next defence of his WBC light-welterweight title at the Trent FM Arena Nottingham on Saturday, 10th May. Witter (Bradford, England) is aiming to end the undefeated record of mandatory challenger Timothy Bradley (Palm Springs, USA) in the third defence of his prestigious world title on a Hennessy Sports in association with GoldenPalace.com show that also features WBC Super Middleweight mandatory challenger Carl Froch..
By Aaron Klein: It seems as if WBC Junior welterweight champion Junior Witter has been calling out Ricky Hatton, although nothing that Witter has said has increased his chances at landing a fight with him. Most recently, Hatton has reportedly said he’d been thinking of fighting Witter until he made a comment to him at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards in Birmingham, telling him “One day.” From that one comment, Hatton intimated that Witter had blown his chance at fighting him.
By Chris Stein: Taking up his ever-growing cause to fight former super lightweight/welterweight champion Ricky Hatton a notch, WBC super lightweight champion Junior Witter (36-1-2, 21 KOs) has reportedly offered to fight Hatton for free, saying “My people have got to get paid, my training expenses have got to be paid but I’ll do it for free.” I seriously doubt that his offer will have any effect on Hatton, for he’s not even remotely interested in taking on Witter, no matter what he offers.
By Nick Kelly: In 2005 Ricky Hatton was on top of the world. That year he launched himself onto a world stage defeating the legendary Kostya Tszyu, KOing Carlos Maussa and winning the Ring Magazine Fighter of The Year.
Meanwhile at the end of 2005 Junior Witter defeated Colin Lynes at York Hall a venue holding just more than 1,000. At that point the two fighters were worlds apart.