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Seems Dave Coldwell is putting on a nice little 8 card small hall show in rotherham this sunday headlined with a British Masters International title fight at light - welterweight , a rematch between Curtis Woodhouse and Jay Morris. Morris defeated the unbeaten Woodhouse over six rounds last time

Some nice match ups underneath with the rest of the line up as follows.

Robert Lloyd Taylor vs Dee Mitchell
Kevin Hooper vs Daniel Thorpe
Neil Beevers vs Ryan Clarke
Chad Gaynor vs Phil Boyle
Jon Musgrave vs Kevin McAuley
Jerome Wilson vs Johnny Greaves
Nav Mansouri vs Steve Spence.

Tickets are priced £25 or £50 and can be bought by visiting www.visitmagna.co.uk/showtime


Not bad value at all for £25, 8 fights some good prospects and a cracking rematch with Woodhouse and Morris.

Any thoughts on who will win the ramatch or any other contest in the card

The main event is ace, the undercard looks likely to got the way of the left-collumn fighters, but could have a few surprises.

Looks like an entertaining show.

Go on the Isle of Wight Assassin.

here's what Jay has to say, quite entertaining.

Jay Morris claimed a points victory in their last meeting in Belfast last April and says that, this time, he will knock Woodhouse out.
He said: "Last time I went in and spent the first couple of rounds having a look at him.
Now I know what he's capable of. I know his strengths, his weaknesses.
This time I'm going straight for the kill so to speak.
"I'm too big for him, too strong for him and when i'm done with him he'll scurry off back to football. Rotherham, Hull or Sheffield Utd, whoever he wants to go back to.

"He'll be done with boxing - I've heard he's saying he needs his fans support, but when that bell goes the fans can't help him. I don't care if he has a thousand people there shouting him on. I've boxed in front of other people's crazy fans all my life.

"This is the first time i've had eight weeks to prepare for one specific opponent. Do you really think his 'fans' are going to bother me with a little bit of noise?

"I'll silence them all when I smash him to pieces.

"I've heard Coldwell has been saying that Woodhouse has an army of supporters that follow him from Driffield??

"I've never heard of the place! It can't be that much of a fight town!!

"He must be the biggest name to come out of there, but then again that can't be hard!

"He'll need all the support he can get. I hope his army follow him to watch the slaughter."

I remember doing a glowing report of one of Dave's shows years ago...Barnsley I think...the quality on show was low but most of the lads only had one or two fights before and it really meant something to them and their families. The atmosphere was great.

Curtis will be on my BBC London 94.9 show tomorrow night (25/2) between 8-9pm.

He will be joining Big John McDermott, even bigger Don King, Steve O'Meara and Albert Sosnowski's manager.

Suggestions for 'Footballers that would make Great/Bad Boxers' to [email protected]

Remember that it is available on BBC iPlayer after the show.
Adios and thanks.

Buncey wrote:Curtis will be on my BBC London 94.9 show tomorrow night (25/2) between 8-9pm.

He will be joining Big John McDermott, even bigger Don King, Steve O'Meara and Albert Sosnowski's manager.

Suggestions for 'Footballers that would make Great/Bad Boxers' to [email protected]

Remember that it is available on BBC iPlayer after the show.
Adios and thanks.

sounds like a cracking show buncey, iplayer it after the football :)

good show from dave though and woodhouse v morris will be a cracking main event. i really fancy woodhouse to get his revenge this time because he's better than morris.

who's he playing for now? last i heard he was with the likes of rushden & diamonds and mansfield.

Jay's got to make it a bit messy, take Woodhouse out of his stride again.
He should have a natural size advantage, and as Jay said this is the first time in a while he's actually been able to train full time for a fight.

I'm trying to think if we've had a boxer from the Isle of Wight hold a title of any kind.
not sure we have.

as for footballers that would make a boxer, how about Stuart Pearce, he trains like a nutter, and has that look in his eyes.

Having spoke to both fighters they both seem 100% up for this rematch,.

Whislt both feel they will win with a KO they are both respectful of each other and Jay told me the same as Old Bones Ian, he feels he will be the naturally stonger and bigger man and will hurt Curtis to the body.

Curtis is confident and felt that playing football full time beofre the first fight left him drained, but still felt he deserved the win.

At a new weight for both fighters (2nd for Curtis) it will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Both interviews will go up in the BS sticky in the near future.


As for a footballer who would make a good/bad boxer - Cristiano ronaldo.

Just hoping he is bad so I could watch him get smashed

I was at the first fight in Belfast, and for me Woodhouse won the fight.
Having said that a few of the rounds were messy affairs, and being brutally honest Curtis did not fight well, and he knows it.
Since then he's got his head down, worked hard, and got a good result and display on his reume against Hickman.
Woodhouse on points for me.

I'd agree that Woodhouse will start favourite, maybe he underestimated Jay when they fought before, and anyone can lose a when not rightly focused.

Jay has had plenty of ups and downs in his career, and he knows that this is his chance to look back on his career and say he held a title. I think he'll be as prepared as he can be.
He's not the cleanest boxer, and will try a few tricks to unsettle Woodhouse. When a boxer fights in front of his hometown crowd sometimes it can have an adverse effect, too much energy used up before the first bell.

I'm hoping Jay gets something out of his career with a win

I accept what you say in general about home crowds / nervous energy mate - but we're talking here about a Sports Person, who's played football on the big stage.
Nervous energy wont be a major factor here - he can handle it.

Taylor v mitchell is off jut found out Taylor pulled a muscle when realising he was fighting mitchell

Curtis Woodhouse takes to the ring in Rotherham on Sunday looking to overturn the only defeat in his career so far when he rematches Jay Morris. The first fight was in April last year when Morris won on referee Sean Russell’s scorecard 58-57 over six hard fought rounds.

The pair face off on a Dave Coldwell Promotions card entitled ‘Repeat or Revenge’ and Woodhouse will be hoping the outcome is revenge in a fight for the vacant International Masters light-welterweight title, the Sheffield fighter is in confident spirits.

“I can’t wait for the fight to happen. I always think the week before the fight is always the hardest as it seems to take ages,” explained Woodhouse. “I wish the fight could be now but I’ve done all the training and have been sparring for 10 rounds, which has gone exceptionally well. I weighed myself and I was 10 stone 1lb a week before the fight so everything is going right and I can’t see any other outcome than me winning,” predicted Woodhouse.

This contest will only be Woodhouse’s second contest at the light-welterweight limit after previously campaigning at welterweight; the 29 year old explained how he felt the transition was going.

“I did 141lbs on the day of the [Hickman] fight and felt great. I feel really good at the minute and had my body fat tested the other day and it was 5.2% so I’m 10st of pure muscle,” stated Woodhouse.

“All my sparring has been done at this weight so I know I can function at the light-welterweight limit. I know Jay Morris has never boxed at this weight so I don’t know how he’s doing with the weight but I’m bang on and have done all the hard work down at this weight so I know that I will be strong for 10 rounds at light-welterweight.”

Looking back on that night last April, Woodhouse admits that mistakes were made but that corrections had been made - meaning there would be no loss second time round. “I was still playing full time football with Mansfield Town at the time so I was training for them in the morning then doing the boxing in the afternoon and in the end my body just gave out on me,” recalled Woodhouse.

“After two rounds of the Morris fight I felt absolutely shattered and had nothing left in the tank. It was the end of the football season and I’d been training for the fight and my body just said it was done. I still felt I won the fight and for the rematch I have had 8 weeks preparation and played no football so I don’t see the fight being a problem. I think I’ll knock him out in three to four rounds. I honestly can’t see it going past that.”

However, the International Masters title might not fulfil Woodhouse’s ambitions, he is proud to be fighting for the title but ultimately his target in boxing is to win the Lonsdale belt. “To fight for my first title in only my 12th fight is fantastic and it adds that bit of spice that it’s against the only man to beat me and who has gone on record saying he is going to knock me out,” said an excited Woodhouse.

“I am expecting a banging atmosphere and he has sold a lot of tickets so it should be a full house for a cracking fight. It won’t be a long fight because the way he fights I expect him to come out aggressive like I will. One of us will get knocked out and I’d be very surprised if the fight goes ten rounds.”

“I am not looking past Jay but I would like to fight Steve Williams who just won the English title as he looks a good strong fighter and after this fight I will happily chuck my name in to fight him. I have no promotional ties so I’ll be willing to fight for him on his own show,” declared Woodhouse.

Woodhouse once had a successful football career playing at the top tier in the English league and representing his country at under-21 level. The loss to Morris did not push him back towards a game where he would have made more money; it instead focused him more on making a success in boxing.

“I have told Dave [Coldwell] that all I want is 50/50 fights. I don’t want to be looked at as a protected fighter or a prospect and I don’t care about my record or how many losses I have. I want to get to where I want to go and if I end up winning 20 fights and losing 10 fights but win the British tile then I’ll be happy,” enthused Woodhouse.

“It’s pretty much sink or swim for me now and I don’t want to be seen as one of these fighters with a 20-0 record who walk around thinking they are the real thing without having won anything worthwhile.”

Jay Morris produced a shock last April on the Martin Lindsay-Paul Appleby undercard when he beat the previously unbeaten Curtis Woodhouse over six rounds at the welterweight limit. Morris faces Woodhouse in a rematch hoping to show the first result was no fluke when the pair square off for the vacant International Masters in Rotherham on Sunday on a Dave Coldwell promotions card.

A win over Woodhouse, followed by a win over unbeaten former junior ABA champion Jay Creamer should have opened some doors for Morris but what has followed is over six months of inactivity, which the fighter explained.

“I have been inactive since the fight with Curtis having only had one fight against Johnny Creamer who was a Junior ABA finalist, and was unbeaten, but I rushed him up and beat him,” recalled Morris.

“I’ve then been out for seven months out as I’ve been working on my fitness and conditioning having done a personal training course. I feel like I’ve had a good rest, which has given me plenty of time to work on my technique.

“I did try and get in the light-welterweight Prizefighter as the plan was to drop to light-welterweight anyway but I never got picked. When the chance to fight Curtis again came up it was brilliant as I always fancied a rematch with him but it was a dream come true when they said it was at light-welterweight, this made it perfect.”

Morris has recently returned to the man who was responsible for training Chris Eubank, Ronnie Davies, having previously worked with the trainer for the first couple of years of his career before distance and cost of travelling forced the separation.

“I went back with Ronnie Davies as I was unbeaten with him last time [Morris lost a disputed decision to Ivor Bonavic] and it seems the best move I have made,” beamed Morris.

“He is working with me solely and the sparring is top notch and everything has gone well. In the first week of training I was doing 11 rounds of fast paced sparring and that was six weeks ago so if anything we’ve had to hold back.”

Morris has not made the light-welterweight limit as a professional but says that his training camp has gone as well as can be expected and does not see any issues of making the championship weight limit, or performing down at the weight.

“I was 10st 3lb for a check weight a few weeks ago, I have a letter from my doctor and I wasn’t dehydrated to make that,” claimed Morris. “At the moment I am 10st 4lb and I could be 9st 13lb within a couple of hours with a sweat suit on and with the weigh in being the day before I’d have time to take the fluids back on. I haven’t lost any power and my speed will have increased too.”

In the first match referee Sean Russell give Morris the fight by the closest of margins (58-57) yet the Isle of Wight Assassin felt that the fight wasn’t as close as it was scored and believes that the rematch will prove this.

“I clearly won last time, they are saying it was close as he was the home fighter and the commentators always look at the house fighter. It’s the way boxing is and we have had a lot of bad decisions recently. Usually in a rematch you get the same result only more emphatic, not every time but I think I will knock him out,” stated a confident Morris.

“I am winning this fight 100% and it’s not me being over confident. I will be too strong for Curtis, in the last fight he said he felt he was fitter than me, well he can be as fit as he wants to be as it will be my natural size and strength that will allow me to dictate the pace just like before. He will absolutely knackered within four rounds and I’ll tee off on him.”

Morris’s belief that he is the better fighter than Woodhouse comes from a belief that the Sheffield fighter has been carefully matched and the 31-year-old believes that the level of fighters he has faced in the past will bear him well come fight night.

“I don’t actually rate him as a puncher, he is a good puncher but isn’t really a knockout kind of puncher. He has six knockouts on his record but I was the first livewire he fought and I beat him. Whether they like it or not I won the fight. They have then brought him back and said he stopped [Dean] Hickman but he had been stopped in his last three fights,” argued Morris.

“All the guys who stopped him stopped him quicker than Curtis but yet again they have built him up and made him favourite by giving him someone on a downward slope. My last fight I beat a guy with only two fights but he was unbeaten, whereas they give Curtis a guy who had been stopped in his last three and I feel it gives me the edge.”

Winning the minor International Master title would be a dream come true for the hard working Morris and the 31-year-old feels it will open doors to a higher level. “I have always been told I am better than my record is and I always felt that one day I would get a chance and I took that by beating Curtis and I’ll take it again and get myself this International Masters which is like a WBC belt to me,” beamed a confident Morris.

“A win will open doors for me and I know I can beat Peter McDonagh who is the Southern Area champion and I don’t think Steve Williams [English champion] looks any better than me and I reckon I could beat him.”