http://www.itv-boxing.com/News/Story_Pa ... 15,00.html
Wright seems very confident of beating Daws. The bookies are 5/6 each of two. How do u see it? Been more impressed by Wright as a pro but Daws has that amateur win over him. Looking forward to this fight actually.
Wright on Daws
The biggest concern for me about the outcome of this one is the way Daws marks up and cuts. That said he's always overcome his injuries with a cool head.
Wright is more versatile but can resort to spoiling which the referee's shouldn't tolerate.
Daws really has a much more rigid approach, but for me is much better on the eye.
A superb 50/50 match up
. I sway Daws' way ever so slightly. The engine on Lenny is staggeringly efficient.
Wright is more versatile but can resort to spoiling which the referee's shouldn't tolerate.
Daws really has a much more rigid approach, but for me is much better on the eye.
A superb 50/50 match up
. I sway Daws' way ever so slightly. The engine on Lenny is staggeringly efficient.-
MightyWarrior
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The great Graham Houston gives his take on Friday's fight, taken from fightwriter.com
http://www.fightwriter.com/?q=node/176& ... 3cfe2a4fee
The battle lines are drawn for what is likely to be a hotly contested fight at east London’s atmospheric York Hall when the undefeated Lenny Daws meets old amateur rival Nigel Wright for the vacant British 140-pound title.
Daws, a 27-year-old from Morden in southwest London, will be be bringing pressure and workrate. British colleagues tell me that Daws just keeps coming and keeps throwing punches.
Wright, meanwhile, is a southpaw with sharp skills who is punching hard at the moment with five stoppage wins in his last seven bouts.
It seems fairly clear that Daws will be taking the fight to Wright from the first bell and seeking to wear him down while the southpaw will be looking to make him miss and drill him with the left-hand shots that have been putting opponents on the canvas lately.
I haven’t had the chance to see either boxer but this is one of those evenly matched fights that keep the game very much alive in Britain, the sort of fight that I loved to see when I was living in London.
Daws, from the Hennessy Sports stable that includes 168-pound title hope Carl Froch, has won 13 consecutive bouts with six opponents halted. He had by far his biggest win in his last fight when he halted the much more experienced Colin Lynes on a corner retirement after nine rounds in a scheduled 12-rounder.
Wright, a 26-year-old southpaw from Hartlepool in the northeast of England, is with the powerhouse allegedly camp and has won 16 of 17 bouts, with eight opponents stopped. His only defeat was a narrow points loss to a more experienced and heavier opponent, Scottish fellow-southpaw, Kevin McIntrye — and Wright avenged this defeat with a dramatic one-round knockout victory in Glasgow last November.
The York Hall site favours Daws, whose supporters are said to be incredibly noisy and enthusiastic — so much so that the cheering section has been dubbed the “Morden Massive”.
Wright will have to shut out the clamour and concentrate on compromising Daws’s capacity for aggression. It would be an ideal scenario for Wright if he could hurt Daws early and slow him down, because if the Londoner is allowed to build up a head of steam he will be hard to hold off in the later stages, with his followers spurring him on with their near-fanatical support.
They say that Wright is an excellent body puncher. He has stopped opponents with left-hand shots underneath. If he can drive the left hand into Daws’s midsection hard and often he can, perhaps, sap some of his opponent’s stamina, which I think he will need to do if he is to stall his opponent's anticipated late-rounds surge.
If Daws is still in the fight and relatively undamaged after the halfway point his high-volume punch output could give him control, but the all-action fighter has had tough fights and suffered knockdowns in his relatively short professional career (like Wright he was an amateur champion in the U.K.).
Daws had to survive a harrowing night in July of last year when he suffered ugly swellings under both eyes in outpointing a London-based Russian named Bonavic. He was cut over the eye against a British rival, Oscar Hall, before outlasting his opponent in seven rounds.
In addition to this, Daws was dropped in the first round by a Nigerian named Silence Shaheed and he was also floored in the opening round by a Latvian named Alekseev, who had lost five of six bouts. He can be caught and hurt early, then — but he is the type who gathers momentum, and once he is in his full forward-motion flow he is, I am told, extremely hard to discourage.
Daws essentially swarmed all over the more polished Colin Lynes although the end came when his opponent became ill and on the verge of vomiting between rounds.
Wright, like Daws, hold a points win over Silence Shaheed, and it was a hard-earned victory, just as it was for Daws against the same opponent.
It seems that Wright is solid, craftsmanlike type of boxer with a lot of self-belief. He came through a gruelling 10-rounder to outpoint the British veteran Alan Bosworth in May of last year, but he has faced no one like Daws — not as a professional anyway. The two met when they were amateurs, in 1997. Daws won on a fourth-round stoppage. That was so long ago it probably has no bearing on their fight — which will be televised on Sky Sports in the U.K. — although it might give Daws something of a psychological boost.
Wright’s southpaw style is likely to be a problem — but Daws might be able to overcome this with a smothering sort of assault.
I make this a dead-even fight. but Daws is fresh from the big, upset win over Colin Lynes, a higher quality fighter than anyone Wright has faced.
Wright will almost certainly win the early rounds but I think that Daws might be able to close the gap and catch up. I have the sense that Daws can come on late to eke out a win on points in a fight that has a real retro feel to it.
http://www.fightwriter.com/?q=node/176& ... 3cfe2a4fee
The battle lines are drawn for what is likely to be a hotly contested fight at east London’s atmospheric York Hall when the undefeated Lenny Daws meets old amateur rival Nigel Wright for the vacant British 140-pound title.
Daws, a 27-year-old from Morden in southwest London, will be be bringing pressure and workrate. British colleagues tell me that Daws just keeps coming and keeps throwing punches.
Wright, meanwhile, is a southpaw with sharp skills who is punching hard at the moment with five stoppage wins in his last seven bouts.
It seems fairly clear that Daws will be taking the fight to Wright from the first bell and seeking to wear him down while the southpaw will be looking to make him miss and drill him with the left-hand shots that have been putting opponents on the canvas lately.
I haven’t had the chance to see either boxer but this is one of those evenly matched fights that keep the game very much alive in Britain, the sort of fight that I loved to see when I was living in London.
Daws, from the Hennessy Sports stable that includes 168-pound title hope Carl Froch, has won 13 consecutive bouts with six opponents halted. He had by far his biggest win in his last fight when he halted the much more experienced Colin Lynes on a corner retirement after nine rounds in a scheduled 12-rounder.
Wright, a 26-year-old southpaw from Hartlepool in the northeast of England, is with the powerhouse allegedly camp and has won 16 of 17 bouts, with eight opponents stopped. His only defeat was a narrow points loss to a more experienced and heavier opponent, Scottish fellow-southpaw, Kevin McIntrye — and Wright avenged this defeat with a dramatic one-round knockout victory in Glasgow last November.
The York Hall site favours Daws, whose supporters are said to be incredibly noisy and enthusiastic — so much so that the cheering section has been dubbed the “Morden Massive”.
Wright will have to shut out the clamour and concentrate on compromising Daws’s capacity for aggression. It would be an ideal scenario for Wright if he could hurt Daws early and slow him down, because if the Londoner is allowed to build up a head of steam he will be hard to hold off in the later stages, with his followers spurring him on with their near-fanatical support.
They say that Wright is an excellent body puncher. He has stopped opponents with left-hand shots underneath. If he can drive the left hand into Daws’s midsection hard and often he can, perhaps, sap some of his opponent’s stamina, which I think he will need to do if he is to stall his opponent's anticipated late-rounds surge.
If Daws is still in the fight and relatively undamaged after the halfway point his high-volume punch output could give him control, but the all-action fighter has had tough fights and suffered knockdowns in his relatively short professional career (like Wright he was an amateur champion in the U.K.).
Daws had to survive a harrowing night in July of last year when he suffered ugly swellings under both eyes in outpointing a London-based Russian named Bonavic. He was cut over the eye against a British rival, Oscar Hall, before outlasting his opponent in seven rounds.
In addition to this, Daws was dropped in the first round by a Nigerian named Silence Shaheed and he was also floored in the opening round by a Latvian named Alekseev, who had lost five of six bouts. He can be caught and hurt early, then — but he is the type who gathers momentum, and once he is in his full forward-motion flow he is, I am told, extremely hard to discourage.
Daws essentially swarmed all over the more polished Colin Lynes although the end came when his opponent became ill and on the verge of vomiting between rounds.
Wright, like Daws, hold a points win over Silence Shaheed, and it was a hard-earned victory, just as it was for Daws against the same opponent.
It seems that Wright is solid, craftsmanlike type of boxer with a lot of self-belief. He came through a gruelling 10-rounder to outpoint the British veteran Alan Bosworth in May of last year, but he has faced no one like Daws — not as a professional anyway. The two met when they were amateurs, in 1997. Daws won on a fourth-round stoppage. That was so long ago it probably has no bearing on their fight — which will be televised on Sky Sports in the U.K. — although it might give Daws something of a psychological boost.
Wright’s southpaw style is likely to be a problem — but Daws might be able to overcome this with a smothering sort of assault.
I make this a dead-even fight. but Daws is fresh from the big, upset win over Colin Lynes, a higher quality fighter than anyone Wright has faced.
Wright will almost certainly win the early rounds but I think that Daws might be able to close the gap and catch up. I have the sense that Daws can come on late to eke out a win on points in a fight that has a real retro feel to it.
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TerribleTerry
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Yes, the other British title fight shouldn't be ignored either.
Meager has the experience, but struggles to to vary the pace and that will let Stewart make this a very competitive fight.
Another close one, but I have to pick Lee.
Re: Daws -Wright, hope the referee doesn't blow the fight by allowing Wright to get away with holding. If he plays by the book I can't seen him living with Daws workrate for the full 12.
Meager has the experience, but struggles to to vary the pace and that will let Stewart make this a very competitive fight.
Another close one, but I have to pick Lee.
Re: Daws -Wright, hope the referee doesn't blow the fight by allowing Wright to get away with holding. If he plays by the book I can't seen him living with Daws workrate for the full 12.
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Old bones Ian
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Going from what i've been hearing alot of people are putting Daws as the slight favourite, he has had a couple of good wins recently, but i think that Wright might be a bit to much for him.
Daws is a bit of a slow starter, having been floored early a couple of times, Wright has been hitting harder latley, so i wouldn't be surprised to see Daws stung and hurt early on, but his conditioning will probably see him through that crisis.
Middle rounds could be the hardest to score, with Daws swarming foward throwing lots of punches, whilst Wright has the souphpaw skills to land good counters. This is where i think it will get interesting, I'm picking Wright to overcome a few sticky moments in rounds 5-8 , then he will start hurting Daws to the body breaking him down for a stoppage in the 10th round.
Daws is a bit of a slow starter, having been floored early a couple of times, Wright has been hitting harder latley, so i wouldn't be surprised to see Daws stung and hurt early on, but his conditioning will probably see him through that crisis.
Middle rounds could be the hardest to score, with Daws swarming foward throwing lots of punches, whilst Wright has the souphpaw skills to land good counters. This is where i think it will get interesting, I'm picking Wright to overcome a few sticky moments in rounds 5-8 , then he will start hurting Daws to the body breaking him down for a stoppage in the 10th round.
I was speaking to Nigel a couple of weeks ago (he called into my BMW garage) and he is well up for the fight - he's studied Daws in every way and says he knows what it takes to beat him.
With almost three weeks to go before the fight Nigel looked in great shape.
My money's on Nigel with a points win.
Koomey
With almost three weeks to go before the fight Nigel looked in great shape.
My money's on Nigel with a points win.
Koomey
All the money has been for Daws this week. Wright now 6/5 against. I'll be having a nice lumpy bet on my fellow north easterner once I get the weigh-in details. GENUINELY looking forward to this. Can see Wright, who is desperate to win the belt for his late father, exploding out of the blocks a la McIntrye. Daws deffo better than the Scot but there will be worse bets than Wright to win in the first at 66/1.
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MightyWarrior
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Yes I'm going for a long shot first round win for Wright I reckon: good puncher and Lenny's a slow starter...where's 66/1 Goods?TheGoods wrote:All the money has been for Daws this week. Wright now 6/5 against. I'll be having a nice lumpy bet on my fellow north easterner once I get the weigh-in details. GENUINELY looking forward to this. Can see Wright, who is desperate to win the belt for his late father, exploding out of the blocks a la McIntrye. Daws deffo better than the Scot but there will be worse bets than Wright to win in the first at 66/1.
Can only see 33/1
There's a first time for everything I suppose, but as it's never happended before, and Daws has met some very good amatuers, that's why the price is a long as it is. Putting Kevin McIntyre away in a round is one thing, putting Lenny down and out another.
Please don't let me stop you guys winning a fortune though 8)
Please don't let me stop you guys winning a fortune though 8)
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MightyWarrior
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Yep quite a long shot I suppose, but Wright will probably got for it early so might hit the jackpot...thanks Goods, got rounds 1 & 2 over at betfred Daws was excellent....again. The guy just grinds you down with a relentless work ethic. Although Wright saw it through to the finish he still "give in" to the better man by clutching from the 3rd round on. Unfortunately for Wright, Daws is very effective at dealing with spoilers and blitzed him on the inside too. Wright can come again, no doubt, but has got to sort out his tempation to spoil when the going gets tough.
Hopefully, Lenny can now go to win the Londsdale belt outright.
Hopefully, Lenny can now go to win the Londsdale belt outright.
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Old bones Ian
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Well done to Laws, i called the fight completly wrong , i said it would be a late stoppage win for Wright.THEBUTCH wrote:Daws was excellent....again. The guy just grinds you down with a relentless work ethic. Although Wright saw it through to the finish he still "give in" to the better man by clutching from the 3rd round on. Unfortunately for Wright, Daws is very effective at dealing with spoilers and blitzed him on the inside too. Wright can come again, no doubt, but has got to sort out his tempation to spoil when the going gets tough.
Hopefully, Lenny can now go to win the Londsdale belt outright.
Lenny has improved alot and wasn't just rushing in throwing wasteful shots, best of luck to him.
Wright can come again, he lost but wasn't disgraced and it was a good learning experience
. Bami's Matchroom so it's a fight that can be made.