By Daniel Ciminera: Nathan Cleverly’s hopes of winning the the European Boxing Union light-heavyweight European title this month have been scuppered due to Brancalion’s camp postponing yet again! The bout, originally supposed to be on the same card as Khan vs Salita, was postponed until January the 29th and moved to Rovigo, Italy, Brancalion’s hometown when the Italian’s promoters won the rights to the purse and hostage for the bout for the vacant title.
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Nathan Cleverly in 2010 and Beyond
by Daniel Ciminera: This is the year in which Nathan Cleverly is to finish his degree. For me this means one thing. Look out anyone standing in his way. The boy from South Wales is already well on his way to the top and that is while not having the time to concentrate fully on his boxing career because of his math degree.
Nathan Cleverly – True prospect or subject to over hype?
By Adam Fillingham: Nathan Cleverly, the current British and Commonwealth light heavyweight champion has been touted recently as the new Joe Calzaghe. The man from Cefn Fforest has defended his commonwealth belt 5 times and his British belt once, since his classy defeat of Tony Oakey a year ago. So is the comparison to the Welsh legend justified? Or is he just another over hyped young gun? Only time will tell.
Cleverly stops Fry, Fails to Impress; Saunders Defeats Spitko, Chisora stops Noniashvili
By Nate Anderson: For those boxing fans who see light heavyweight Nathan Cleverly (18-0, 8 KO’s) as the second coming of Joe Calzaghe, they may need to hold off a bit on their expectations about him because he seems far from realizing the talent that Calzaghe formerly possessed, at least as of now.
Calzaghe comments on Cleverly and Maccarinelli – Boxing News
By Sean McDaniel: Recently retired former WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KO’s) has a lot of sympathy for his former stable mate Enzo Maccarinelli (29-4, 22 KO’s) after watching Maccarinelli get destroyed in a 3rd round stoppage by Russian Denis Lebedev last weekend on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Andriy Kotelnik WBA light welterweight title fight at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester. The knockout loss for Maccarinelli, his third in his last four fights, has left him pondering what to do with his career and whether he should retire or not.
Cleverly Defeats McIntosh
By Sean McDaniel: In what many boxing experts felt was going to be a closely contested fight between Commonwealth light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (17-0, 7 KO’s) and challenger Danny McIntosh (10-1, 4 KO’s) on Saturday night, turned out to be a huge mismatch with Cleverly knocking McIntosh down four times en route to stopping him in the 7th round at the York Hall, in Bethnal Green, London.
Cleverly demolishes Mcintosh!
By Gavin Bridges: In something of a halcyon night of the future great and good in British boxing, the British Light-Heavyweight title was contested at the legend-laden York Hall in Bethnal Green between two fighters carrying ‘0’s proudly alongside themselves, Nathan Cleverly and Danny Mcintosh. Cleverly, current incumbent of the commonwealth title, made it clear his intention to trade with the brash, heavy-handed Mcintosh in the build-up to the bout, and few in the auditorium were left in any doubt at the final bell.
Cleverly Stops Boyle, Chisora and Mitchell Also Victorious – Boxing Results
By Nate Anderson: Undefeated light heavyweight Commonwealth champion Nathan Cleverly (16-0, 6 KOs) made short work of challenger Billy Boyle (12-2, 7 KOs) tonight, destroying him in a 2nd round knockout at the York Hall. Making his 3rd defense of his Commonwealth title Cleverly overwhelmed a badly overmatched Boyle with a flurry of power punches to the head and body, raking him from head to midsection with unanswered blows until referee Marcus McDonnell stepped in and stopped the one way slaughter at 2:27 of the round.
Cleverly Destroys Onyango
By Jim Dower: Commonwealth (British Empire) light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (15-0, 5 KOs) destroyed his hard-hitting Kenyan challenger Samson Onyango (18-4, 12 KOs) in the 1st round of a scheduled 12-round bout tonight at the Oasis Leisure Centre, Swindon, in Wiltshire. Cleverly, 21, hurt Onyango with several hard hooks to the body in the 1st, backing him up to the corner.
News – Froch-Taylor, Cleverly, Sutherland, Brinkley-Gilbert
Hot talent Nathan Cleverly is aiming to send out a KO message to British champion Dean Francis on Friday night. The pair will both appear on the same bill in Swindon – with a mouth-watering clash between the two scheduled for later this year. The light-heavyweight duo have been on a collision course for months, and Cleverly can’t wait for the fight to happen. “Knowing that Francis holds the British title has been driving me mad,” said the undefeated 21-year-old, who puts his Commonwealth crown on the line at the Oasis Sports Centre against Kenyan puncher Samson Otyango live on Sky Sports.