York hall Friday 12 February

[leforge]

On boxrec schedule it has Steve O'Meara vs Yassive El Maachi for southern area title anyone know who main event is?

[alexpaterson]

Sorry cant answer your question but I'm glad El-Macchi and O'Meara are fighting should be a very good fight

[15829]

bit weird this being on a matchroom show seens how there both promoted by mick hennesy, i think this will be a tought fight for both with elmachi stopping o'meara late

[1southpaw]

is it matthew marsh fighting for the british title ???

[Grays_Dan]

I thought Matt was fighting for the British title on February 5th in Nottingham.

[leforge]

Marsh is on Nottingham bill on the 5th. Perhaps Lenny Daws will headline this?

[15829]

lenny daws is promoted by hennesy the 12th feb is a barry hearn show

[leforge]

Yes but so O Meara promoted by Hennessy!

[15829]

maybe there copromoting

[leforge]

We wait and see.

[leforge]

Williams v Grant for English light welter title on the bill. Main fight could be Daws v Jason Cook.,

[15829]

the main event is jason cook v lenny daws for the british title, think daws by late stopage

[leforge]

The undercard looks good so far.

[bennie]

“Lightning” Lenny Daws makes a quick first defence of his British light-welterweight title against Welsh veteran Jason Cook at York Hall on February 12.
Londoner Lenny won the title in September with a revenge victory over the Scot Barry Morrison in 10 rounds (stoppage) and looks back on track after a surprising blip in form a couple of years ago. Strong, aggressive and with bucketloads of stamina, Daws was regarded as one of our best prospects after he wore down and halted Colin Lynes in nine rounds in 2006 but then came a shock split decision to Morrison at the Ally Pally in 2007 and a 10-round draw with canny Crook southpaw Nigel Wright in the same year - a man he had previously well-licked. With the benefit of hindsight neither was end of the world stuff. Morrison is top British class; Wright recently outscored the comebacking Alex Arthur.
Cook, by way of contrast, retired from the sport in 2005 when he looked 'shot' but returned in the hideous Prizefighter event at light-welterweight recently and made it through to the semi-finals and was outscored by former WBA champion Gavin Rees, who went on to win the tournament. At 34 Cook looked OK but it is hard to judge a man over three-rounders. Cook, nicknamed “The Power", could always whack and seemed to drop London prospect Michael Grant on the way to a good cuts win in his first bout of the night (the knockdown wasn’t called) but suffered a cut himself which re-opened in an exciting tussle with the chunky, perennially underrated Rees, who had Cook down, genuinely.
Cook v Daws will be a lively, lusty affair, and Cook has always argued that he was dead at his old weight of lightweight back in 2005, but Daws is the younger, fresher man, the man with 12 rounds in him. After a slow start one can visualize the champion grinding out a stoppage in the middle-to-later rounds.