Jason Cunningham vs Terry Le Couviour

Frank Warren’s newest card got here from the Worldwide Centre in Telford, and in the principle occasion, Jason Cunningham defended his European and IBF Worldwide tremendous bantamweight title with a dominant sixth spherical stoppage of the beforehand unbeaten Terry Le Couviour.

Cunningham (31-6, 7 KOs) got here into this one in an Indian Summer time of his profession, having first upset Gamal Yafai to win the Commonwealth title final yr, earlier than including British and European straps with a scrappy points win over Brad Foster final October. Le Couviour (16-1, 2 KOs) was largely unknown exterior of his native France, and had solely been ten rounds as soon as beforehand.

’The Iceman’ began brightly, with flashy mixtures and the Frenchman was doing his finest to shut the gap and get near the champion early on.

The Doncaster synthetic the breakthrough within the second, touchdown an excellent left uppercut to the physique of the customer, that damage and dropped him, and though Le Couviour bravely beat the depend, he was damage once more proper on the finish of the spherical, as soon as once more to the physique.

The 27-year-old was too straightforward hit, and one more physique shot had him wincing and on the deck initially of spherical three, and though he beat the depend for a second time, the writing was on the wall.

The fourth noticed extra of the identical, with the Cunningham, 32, having no respect for something the challenger needed to provide, and extra physique photographs got here raining in within the fifth. 

These physique photographs lastly ended issues only a spherical later, and this time Le Couviour had met his finish, accepting defeat because the fight was waved off.

Heaney survives scare to beat Ramirez

After the principle occasion got here the ever-popular ticket vendor Nathan Heaney, and he was pressured to beat an early knockdown to take a factors win over ten, and defend his IBO Worldwide middleweight title towards Diego Ramirez.

The Stoke-on-Trent man was decked within the first spherical, by an excellent left hook that had him back-pedalling, and he finally fell to the canvas.

After beating the depend, the 33-year-old caught to his boxing for the following couple of rounds to maintain the customer at bay, however Ramirez (24-7-1, 6 KOs) remained harmful, tagging Heaney (15-0, 6 KOs) within the fourth.

The Argentine drained after midway, and was much less of a risk, permitting the ‘Hitman’ to dictate in the principle because the battle went to the playing cards.

Scores of 98-91 97-93, and 97-92 gave Heaney victory.

Cain secures maiden title

Andrew Cain ruthlessly claimed his first title as knowledgeable, because the Liverpudlian took the vacant WBC Worldwide Silver tremendous bantamweight crown with a primary spherical stoppage of Pablo Ariel Gomez (15-11-2, 1 KO).

Cain (9-0, 8 KOs) scored a knockdown with a counter proper hand that landed excessive on the top of the Argentine inside the first 15 seconds, and the customer rose groggily, and the referee waved the battle off.

ONE AND DONE! 💥@AndrewCainERT wins the WBC Worldwide Silver Bantamweight Title inside 20-seconds 🏆🥊 pic.twitter.com/7HoxAy7xFK

— Boxing on BT Sport 🥊 (@BTSportBoxing) April 16, 2022

Remaining Undercard

Ethan ‘Jammy’ James (8-0) went eight rounds for the second straight contest, and the Northampton-based tremendous light-weight took a 78-75 factors win towards Ben Fields (10-12-2).

Brad Strand (7-0, 3 KOs) prolonged his unbeaten report, because the tremendous bantamweight took a call win over Tanzania’s Ally Mwerangi (11-2, 7 KOs) by a 60-53 margin, and at welterweight, Owen Cooper (6-0, 2 KOs) prolonged his undefeated streak taking a 59-56 verdict over six towards Richard Helm.

And nonetheless undefeated! 🙌

21-year-old Owen Cooper defeats Richard Helm to go 6-0 🥊 pic.twitter.com/TzFHAyX6e7

— Boxing on BT Sport 🥊 (@BTSportBoxing) April 16, 2022

George Davey (5-0-1) was held to a attract his six rounder at welterweight towards Serge Ambomo (7-29-3, 3 KOs).

George Bance (3-0, 1 KO) stopped Des Newton (8-24, 2 KOs) at welterweight, whereas Macauley Owen (3-0, 1 KO) took a 4 spherical factors win over Liam Richards (12-73, 1 KO) at tremendous light-weight. There was additionally a stoppage win at flyweight for Bradley Thompson (4-0, 2 KOs), who halted Francisco Rodriguez (1-6, 1 KO).