Boxrec And Seconds Out Fight Report Of Ali Shah On His 5Th

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By Andrew Wake: Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse didn’t even know that he is opponent was a southpaw until he stepped into the ring at the Magna Centre in Rotherham this afternoon but that didn’t prove a problem as he notched his 13th pro win.

The former Sheffield United and England Under-21 footballer was due to defend his International Masters crown against Bolton’s unbeaten Rick Godding but when that was put back to a later date so that it can be televised, a string off opponents were lined up but each fell through.

Steve Saville most recently agreed to the fight only to then discover he couldn’t make the weight so at the 11th hour promoter Dave Coldwell had to lay substantial cash to fly in Poland’s Maurycy Gojko.

Woodhouse, 30, worked his pinpoint jab early in the opening round before getting off a meaty right hand that shook Gojko but the Pole occasionally clipped Curtis with pot shots.

After a similar second, Woodhouse moved through the gears and began to cut Gojko down to size with two fisted attacks to the body and a quick right hand followed by a left to ribs dropped the eastern European visitor to the canvas.

Gojko now looked to be on borrowed time and if Woodhouse had have found the torso again the fight would have been over but unfortunately for the “Driffield Destroyer” the window of opportunity closed when the bell sounded to end the stanza.

Woodhouse was back to pumping out a patient jab in the fourth and ultimately final round. However more painful shots soon followed and after being hit upstairs and down, Gojko raised the white flag of surrender by turning his back and crouching on the canvas as referee Steve Gray tolled the full ten count.

“I knew nothing about him and so I went out to fight and when I cam back to the corner I said to Dave ‘Bloody hell I didn’t know he was a southpaw’ and he didn’t either,” Woodhouse, now 13 – 1 (8 KOs), explained. “It was a case of just learning on the job against him and I thought I dominated every round.

“I’ve done a lot of sparring with Ryan [Rhodes] but usually just consists of me getting my arse kicked (laughs). No that did help and could hear him shouting from ringside for me to keep my left foot outside of his right and I found once I got my range and started landing my shots I dominated it.”

The rearranged fixture with Rick Goddings is likely to take place on the undercard of Jamie McDonnell’s European bantamweight title defence in Doncaster on June 18 and from there Woodhouse intends on building towards a shot at the British title in the next year and a half.

“I believe in the next 12 to 18 months I can get it on with whoever has got the belt,” he stated. “I believe I need another five or six fights to keep improving and I believe I can get right in the mix.”

There might not be a more bizarre ending to a fight than the one seen the in the clash between Sheffield prospect Jerome Wilson and Tooting-based Bulgarian Danny Dontchev.

Wilson made smooth use of the jab and picked holes in Dontchev’s defence before scoring downstairs but the Bulgarian didn’t seem to have taken hard punishment when he took a knee and began pointing to his backside.

When the action resumed and Wilson again scored in close, Dontchev dropped to the canvas again complaining of pain to his posterior and this time Mark Lyson stopped the action and awarded Wilson the oddest two round TKO win this reporter has ever seen.

At first it was thought that Dontchev’s problems came from a badly fitting protector but after Wilson’s trainer Dave Coldwell had been to offer his condolences to the opposing corner he promptly informed press row that Dontchev had quit because “he says he’s got a pain in his arse.”

Rotherham debutant Martin Shaw kicked off his pro career in some style by halting Westbury’s Aaron Fox at 1.46 of the third round in a six-twos.

Both fights, each just 18 years of age, got straight down to business. Fox landed a wide arching right hook before Shaw fired back with solid left that forced blood to flow from Fox’s nose.

Shaw got on top of the action in the second round when he rained heavy artillery into Fox’s body and finished things of in the third he dropped the Wiltshire man with a short one-two to the head.

Unbeaten Grimsby light-welterweight Kevin “Super” Hooper had to dig deep to take his record to 4 – 0 (1 KO) against Middlesbrough’s Phil Boyle.

Hooper had done well picking his shots until Boyle detonated a massive right hook in the third round that had the Lincolnshire man reeling and holding on to survive.

The fourth didn’t start much better for Hooper has again Boyle looked to score with heavy punches but by the middle of the session he was fighting his way back into things and the action became so heated that both fighters continued to trade after the bell.

In rounds five and six Hooper had cleared his head and was now dictating the pace again as he continued to catch Boyle with jabs and crosses as the Teeside man ploughed forward looking to land that right hand that had worked so well for him earlier. Steve Gray marked it 58 – 57.

Blackburn’s Ali Shah has clearly been watching some Naseem Hamed DVDs. The 23-year-old southpaw clowned and taunted in a manner Sheffield’s former great featherweight could have been proud of as he took apart Birmingham’s Andrew Patterson.

Shah leaped forward with rights and lefts when not posing for the crowd and opened up a nasty cut above the Midlander’s left eye and when the second round ended Patterson retired on his stool.

But for Shah the entertainment wasn’t over as he did a somersault in ring centre before embarking on a victory run through part of the crowd.

Hometown favourite Nav Mansouri took his tally to 3 – 0 (2 KOs) with a 60 – 55 win over Waddington’s Ryan Clark.

Mansouri landed solid left hooks in rounds two and three but Clark left the ring with his head high after firing back with hard leather of his own.


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Curtis ‘The Driffield Destroyer’ Woodhouse retained his light-welterweight International Masters bauble at Rotherham’s Magna Centre this afternoon by stopping imported late replacement opponent Maurycy Gojko in the fourth round.

Gojko was the fourth man slated to fill the opposite corner after Rick Godding, Sam Amoako and Steve Saville all slipped through this David Coldwell promotion for one reason or another.

The Pole (previously stopped by Mark Thompson and Ted Bami) agreed to the match on Friday and earned his money, putting up some stubborn resistance before Woodhouse (9st 13lbs 4oz) finally broke him down after 2:01 of the fourth session.

The first round was shared on my card as Woodhouse tentatively tried to work out the southpaw, which he began to do as round two closed. Gojko (who fortuitously just happened to weigh 10st dead) looked to be blowing a bit at the start of the third. A sharp one-two to the head followed by a meaty left-right hook combination to the body dropped Gojko. He rose and lasted to the bell but it was obvious the end was nigh.

As aforementioned, he earned his corn though as he battled on in the fourth round, he soaked up some more punishment as betrayed by an increasingly bloody nose. He’d clearly had enough by the time he took a knee, after which Woodhouse needlessly tagged him (albeit on the arm). Gojko rose at nine but referee Steve Gray rightly waved the one-sided action off.

A strange ending marred the opening welterweight contest between Sheffield’s Jerome Wilson (10st 8lbs 14oz) and Tooting’s favourite Bulgarian Danny Dontchev (10st 6lbs 4oz). This was Wilson’s second outing and his second win; he won’t forget it in a hurry and neither will Liverpool’s triallist referee Mark Lyson.

Wilson won an uneventful and rather scrappy opening session. The pair were grappling at ring centre in the second session and the wrestling was broken up by Lyson. Dontchev immediately gestured with his left hand towards his lower back, as if he was complaining about receiving an illegal punch. Matters resumed but soon, for no discernable reason Dontchev took a knee and Wilson just about stopped himself from decapitating his opponent, such was his confusion.

Dontchev tried to fight on but soon repeated the knee in a neutral corner. He tried to explain to referee Lyson what the matter was but his English was only slightly better than the arbiter’s Bulgarian. The official waved off the contest, much to Dontchev’s dismay but it’s difficult to see how he could complain about the outcome.

Before Dontchev took his second knee, I suspected he had some kind of back injury and the Bulgarian gestured as if he was getting a shooting pain down his leg – the doctor later said it was possibly a tweak of his sciatic nerve. I have no doubt it was genuine; a bit on the bizarre side to invent.

Rotherham’s Martin Shaw (10st 2lbs) made a successful debut, stopping Westbury’s Aaron Fox (10st 5lbs 12oz) at 1:46 of the third round.

If I said I’ve got older things in my fridge than baby-faced Shaw looks, I’d only be slightly exaggerating. He shouldn’t have any problems having the pub as a distraction – I doubt very much he’d get beyond the doorstep, with or without ID.

The 18-year-old showed quick hands at the start of the opener and a very good left hook bloodied Fox’s nose. Fox marauded forward though and played his fair share in a good scrap. Shaw took Fox’s lead and boxed nicely off the back foot and although the visitor got through with shots of his own, the Yorkshireman definitely had the edge.

Shaw turned up the heat in the third and another mini-barrage put Fox down. He looked a bit dispirited on rising. Mike Alexander issued a standing eight and then rightly saved Fox (now 0-2-1) for another day.

Grimsby’s Kevin Hooper kept his unbeaten record intact, moving to 4-0, but had to came through some deep water against Middlesbrough’s Phil Boyle. Referee Gray had it 58-57 for ‘Super’ Hooper who was shaken to his boots on more than one occasion by Boyle’s right hook over the top.

When it first happened in the third round, Hooper was clever enough to follow the wise, urgent advice issued by Coldwell to “Hold on! Grab him!” Boyle (now 1-4) seemed a bit surprised by his success and failed to throw the kitchen sink which might have seen Gray intervene.

Hooper was hurt again in the next and ended up being bundled over (no knockdown). His head started to clear towards the end of the session though and his better boxing skills saw him home. Both weighed a few ounces over 10st (Hooper six, Boyle four).

Madcap Blackburn welter Ali Shah (10st 9lbs) could be a decent addition to the domestic rankings. Thing is, this is his first fight for more than a year and one gets the sense that he might not be the most stable individual. I believe he’s currently acting independently. I’ve seen him down at Wincobank once or twice and he immediately invoked the old post-Naseem stereotype of hands low, swaying impressively out of the way of shots and crowd-friendly clowning.

Birmingham’s Andrew Patterson (10st 9lbs 8oz) was on the receiving end of Shah’s act and less temperate individuals might have been tempted into indiscretion. Switch-hitting Shah won as he liked, hitting his opponent at will and he opened up a very nasty looking cut along the upper eyelid of Patterson’s left eye in the second round. It was rightly waved off in the interval and a very disappointed Shah rose from his stool saying, “I was only just getting warmed up.”

He leaned over the top rope and said, “You know I’m great, I know I’m great.” Quite.

Rotherham’s Navid ‘Nav’ Mansouri (11st 0lbs 12oz) moved to three unbeaten with a 60-55 win over Lincoln tough man Ryan Clark (11st 1lb 14oz). Mansouri’s two previous wins had come early and apparently Clark had vowed beforehand that he wouldn’t be the third. He was right though had to ship some shots which would have caused lesser men to wilt.

Clark seems to be one of those chaps who loves to fight and eats up pain; he met someone both willing and capable of dishing it out. Clark earned a share of the second though it was in this round he shipped a bust nose which patterned his shorts throughout the bout.

Mansouri was quicker and looked good when throwing several series of crisp, accurate jabs. He seems a decent kid and is certainly moving in the right direction.
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[el_grande_mauro_mina]

Ali - I hope you aren't going to spam these forums now - thanks!

[fightnight]

this is not ali shah its a friend of his..ive trained with him a few times..

[slapbangwhallop]

this is not ali shah its a friend of his..ive trained with him a few times..

yeah of course not Ali, I mean not Ali, Ali! not. 8)

[fightnight]

lol you really would love it to be ali shah...unfortunatley it isnt i can tell him to join...

[mickey1975]

lol you really would love it to be ali shah...unfortunatley it isnt i can tell him to join...

Yeah,because Ali Shah would be by far the biggest name on Boxrec...

[Counter-puncher]

lol you really would love it to be ali shah...unfortunatley it isnt i can tell him to join...

Yeah,because Ali Shah would be by far the biggest name on Boxrec...

[Jeff Thomas]

The same Ali Shah who 'wasn't' on eastside.

Well done for the win mate!

[danfoster]

It's not Ali Shah, it's his brother!

They share the same email address you see