Denzel Bentley vs Marcus Morrison

A Frank Warren promoted present goes forward at York Corridor, Bethnal Inexperienced this Friday night, and the highest of the invoice sees Denzel Bentley defend his British middleweight title for the primary time in opposition to Marcus Morrison.

BT Sport televise Bentley vs Morrison, reside within the UK.

Bentley (16-1-1, 13 KOs) is a heavy-handed sort, and first got here into prominence through the first COVID-19 enforced lockdown in a cracking contest in September 2020.

The 27-year-old dropped Mark Heffron within the second spherical, and the pair fought to an exciting draw.

A rematch was a pure, and this time with the vacant British title on the road, ‘2 Sharp’ compelled Heffron to retire after 4 rounds.

The Battersea man tried so as to add the Commonwealth belt, however discovered Felix Money an excessive amount of to deal with in April final 12 months, with Money storming to a 3rd spherical stoppage win.

After a comeback win, Bentley regained the Lonsdale Belt in Could, as he took a split decision win over Linus Udofia for the vacant title in one other breathless show.

Morrison (29-5, 16 KOs) suffered back-to-back losses in 2017, and it regarded like his profession was completed when upset by journeyman Alistair Warren in June 2018.

The 29-year-old rebounded with seven straight wins earlier than a spirited factors defeat to Chris Eubank Jr in Could final 12 months, however he was halted for the primary time in his profession in November 2021 by Zach Parker.

That was at tremendous middleweight, and he returned final month with a 4 spherical factors win to safe this title shot.

Prediction: Morrison’s early defeat to Parker may properly inform us all about his punch resistance, and Bentley is a giant puncher. As soon as the Londoner catches up with ’Candy MNM’, I believe it might be over swiftly, and I anticipate Bentley to retain earlier than midway.

Zorro tackles Spelman

Ellis Zorro makes his debut below the Frank Warren banner, and he has a troublesome eight rounder with former Commonwealth title challenger, Dec Spelman (18-5, 9 KOs) at cruiserweight.

Zorro (14-0, 6 KOs) is a former Final BOXXER winner, however has by no means been previous six rounds.

Prediction: He can overcome early scares right here to take a factors win.

Remaining Undercard

The opposite eight rounder ought to see a factors win for Frank Arnold (9-0-1, 3 KOs) who takes on the tried and examined Nicaraguan, Brayan Mairena (11-30-1, 5 KOs) at tremendous featherweight.

Six spherical motion sees Adan Mohamed (6-0, 1 KO) make his third look of the 12 months, and he can financial institution a factors win at tremendous bantamweight in opposition to Reiss Taylor (3-17, 1 KO).

Khalid Ali (3-0, 2 KOs) also can take his welterweight contest with Croatia’s Dario Borosa (1-19) on the scorecards.

Masood Abdulah (5-0, 4 KOs) can also be in motion, and the Islington-based tremendous featherweight can rating one other early win, this time in opposition to Stefan Nicolae (3-37-2, 1 KO).

In 4 motion, Royston Barney-Smith (2-0) ought to defeat Paul Holt (8-14, 2 KOs) on factors at tremendous featherweight, and at middleweight, debutant Joel Kodua ought to cope with Joe Hardy (1-2) inside the gap.

Arnold Obodai (1-0, 1 KO) also can take his cruiserweight contest with Pawel Strykowski (3-18-1) inside schedule.