Firstly congratulations to my fighters Denton Vassell and Craig Watson on becoming the Commonwealth Welterweight and Commonwealth Light Middleweight Champions respectively at our boxing show in Wigan on Friday night.
Denton is another fighter from the Bob Shannon conveyor belt who trains at my boxing gym in Hyde. I have never seen a boxer train as hard as Denton and it is very pleasing to see both his and Bob Shannon’s hard work being rewarded.
Its well documented that Denton works for a bank and there were plenty of promotional photographs of him last week wearing a bowler hat, however hats off must really go to Craig Watson who saved the show on Friday night when another boxer Tommy McDonagh pulled out leaving the show in jeopardy. Craig is the former Commonwealth Welterweight Champion and has never boxed at light middleweight before however he had no hesitation in taking the fight at two days notice against the dangerous Ugandan Badru Lasumbya who had a very impressive record and reputation. I was absolutely thrilled when Craig won the fight after knocking him down four times in the second round.
In a weekend when all the talk has been about the Manchester derby albeit my team was robbed again! There are plenty of potential Manchester boxing derby’s with Denton and Craig joining my brother Matthew as champions and with exciting Mark Thompson waiting in the wings.
I should have been a studio guest with Chris Moyles on the Radio One breakfast show this week but unfortunately it has been cancelled as Chris is stuck in New York due to the current flight cancelations. This has also affected my mum and dad who can’t get back from Tenerife.
I was pleased to invite ten high profile Manchester businessmen to my gym in Hyde to launch their charity challenge last week. Starting on 16 May 2010, Manchester’s top entrepreneurs will be running 10x10k races in 10 countries over five days in aid of the NSPCC’s Hear Our Cry appeal.They are starting with the Manchester 10K on the 16th May followed by Amstersdam, Brussels, Cologne, Luxumbourg, Geneva, San Remo, Monaco and Nice, before finishing in Barcelona. Big thanks to one of my trainers Richard Heap for sharing his invaluable knowledge with the runners who will no doubt need it.
In 1997 Mike Tyson got a little frustrated with Evander Holyfield in their fight at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. So what does he do? starts eating Holyfields ear and then gets disqualified by referee Mills Lane. A knock on effect,no pun, is that Boxing was banned in Bury.
I am pleased to announce that Gareth Williams from Hatton Promotions has had the ban lifted. Gareth is from Bury and was passionate about taking Professional boxing back to his home town.
On the 29th may this year Bury Born, Super bantamweight, Scott Quigg will make his Home town debut at the Castle Leisure centre, Bury on our "Back Home" promotion.
Scott is unbeaten in 17 fights and ranked number three in Britain. I am very excited about Scott and I am sure that it is only a matter of time before he wins another title for Hatton promotions.
My acting Career continued with a walk on part, as myself, in Shameless last week. Some people might have missed the part as it was shown after the credits. It’s the second Television role I have had. Who knows I could be the next Vinnie Jones and return to Vegas in a different role. I won’t hold my breath.
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