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Frank Maloney announced world titles fir Jason Booth and Rendall Munroe in a press conference in London today.

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Great news

Rendall Munroe's pending WBC title shot in Japan revives memories of the night Wayne McCullough made his way to Nagoya 15 years ago and punched out a split decision over Yasuei Yakushiji for the WBC bantamweight title. It was a brilliant performance from the Belfast man, who showed all his renowned workrate and stamina, but the split verdict, when Wayne looked to have won clearly, shows you how difficult it is to get a result in Japan. Even Ken Buchanan, the best away fighter Britain has ever seen, failed to win there in an attempt to regain the world lightweight title from Guts Ishimatu in 1975. Buchanan, who still weighs in at lightweight, will tell you a thumb in the eye in sparring ruined his chances but Kenny is good at building up a myth. He was simply on the other side of the mountain and, after a dazzling start, faded in the later rounds and conceded a unanimous 15-round decision. Liverpool's gallant Alan Rudkin also stuck it out for 15 rounds with the legendary buzzsaw that is Fighting Harada in a crack at the world bantamweight title in Tokyo in 1965.
As for Munroe, he travels to Tokyo in October in a bid for the WBC super-bantamweight title held by Toshiaki Nishioka, a man every bit as good as Yakushiji or Ishimatu, if not Harada, the greatest Japanese fighter of all time. In 16 years as a pro, Nishioka has conceded to just three men, two of whom beat him as a teenager in the 1990s and the other, Veeraphol Sahaprom of Thailand, who twice outscored him and twice drew with him in gruelling world title encounters at bantamweight, the last time in March 2004. Southpaw Nishioka, a quick, lean, charismatic banger, moved up to super-bantamweight and has won 13 on the spin, nine of them early. He climbed off the floor in the first round to spreadeagle Mexico's Jhonny Gonzalez in the third of a thrilling affair last year in Monterrey, proving his mettle away from home, and looked particularly sharp last time out in April when he broke up a previously unbeaten Filipino in five rounds in Tokyo in the fourth defence of his WBC belt. The rugged-looking Nishioka favours the big left smash and hasn't been the distance since he won the world title in 2008, although he also knows how to box. On the plus side for Munroe, the champion is seriously knocking on for the division at 33 and known as a bleeder.
Munroe, no spring chicken himself at 30, gets plenty of copy as a humble bin-man from Leicester and he deserves it for the methodical way he set about securing his mandatory shot, twice outscoring Spanish puncher Kiko Martinez in European title battles and outlasting Mexico's Victor Terrazas in nine rounds with body shots in a world title eliminator in April. Southpaw Munroe, big for the weight and always in superb shape, pressures his opponents and has a solid chin but he is not particularly quick, nor is he much of a banger, and you wonder if his strength and work ethic are enough to wrest him a world title away from home, although McCullough proved that they were. His only defeat came in a stab at the British featherweight title in Glasgow 2006. Munroe fought flat-out against Manchester's slick Andy Morris, who took the 12-round verdict but has never been the same, and then dropped down a weight and wrested the major European belt from that man Martinez, who had never lost before, amateur and pro, and had won the title by smashing Dublin's Bernard Dunne inside a round. Dublin is as far as Munroe has travelled as a pro, halting Italy's reluctant Fabrizio Trotta there in 2008, so Tokyo is going to seem a world away. "If you think London has got a lot of people, wait till you see this place", bemoaned Buchanan of Tokyo in his autobiography, The Tartan Legend. "I felt like I was on another planet, never mind in a foreign country."
Munroe will pick up a big payday in the lucrative Japanese boxing market and has an outside chance if the ageing Nishioka grows even older on the night, but the accurate left hands of the home man and underrated boxing skills make him a prodigious favourite, although in many respects our man is already a winner. Munroe guns for a proper world title against a proper champion in a proper backyard. This smacks of boxing as it used to be.

obviously rendall obviously

davidas wrote:obviously rendall obviously

haha thats all he says or "knw wht i mean" top lad

both lads deserve there shots at the titles credit to the game

bennie wrote:Rendall Munroe's pending WBC title shot in Japan revives memories of the night Wayne McCullough made his way to Nagoya 15 years ago and punched out a split decision over Yasuei Yakushiji for the WBC bantamweight title. It was a brilliant performance from the Belfast man, who showed all his renowned workrate and stamina, but the split verdict, when Wayne looked to have won clearly, shows you how difficult it is to get a result in Japan. Even Ken Buchanan, the best away fighter Britain has ever seen, failed to win there in an attempt to regain the world lightweight title from Guts Ishimatu in 1975. Buchanan, who still weighs in at lightweight, will tell you a thumb in the eye in sparring ruined his chances but Kenny is good at building up a myth. He was simply on the other side of the mountain and, after a dazzling start, faded in the later rounds and conceded a unanimous 15-round decision. Liverpool's gallant Alan Rudkin also stuck it out for 15 rounds with the legendary buzzsaw that is Fighting Harada in a crack at the world bantamweight title in Tokyo in 1965.
As for Munroe, he travels to Tokyo in October in a bid for the WBC super-bantamweight title held by Toshiaki Nishioka, a man every bit as good as Yakushiji or Ishimatu, if not Harada, the greatest Japanese fighter of all time. In 16 years as a pro, Nishioka has conceded to just three men, two of whom beat him as a teenager in the 1990s and the other, Veeraphol Sahaprom of Thailand, who twice outscored him and twice drew with him in gruelling world title encounters at bantamweight, the last time in March 2004. Southpaw Nishioka, a quick, lean, charismatic banger, moved up to super-bantamweight and has won 13 on the spin, nine of them early. He climbed off the floor in the first round to spreadeagle Mexico's Jhonny Gonzalez in the third of a thrilling affair last year in Monterrey, proving his mettle away from home, and looked particularly sharp last time out in April when he broke up a previously unbeaten Filipino in five rounds in Tokyo in the fourth defence of his WBC belt. The rugged-looking Nishioka favours the big left smash and hasn't been the distance since he won the world title in 2008, although he also knows how to box. On the plus side for Munroe, the champion is seriously knocking on for the division at 33 and known as a bleeder.
Munroe, no spring chicken himself at 30, gets plenty of copy as a humble bin-man from Leicester and he deserves it for the methodical way he set about securing his mandatory shot, twice outscoring Spanish puncher Kiko Martinez in European title battles and outlasting Mexico's Victor Terrazas in nine rounds with body shots in a world title eliminator in April. Southpaw Munroe, big for the weight and always in superb shape, pressures his opponents and has a solid chin but he is not particularly quick, nor is he much of a banger, and you wonder if his strength and work ethic are enough to wrest him a world title away from home, although McCullough proved that they were. His only defeat came in a stab at the British featherweight title in Glasgow 2006. Munroe fought flat-out against Manchester's slick Andy Morris, who took the 12-round verdict but has never been the same, and then dropped down a weight and wrested the major European belt from that man Martinez, who had never lost before, amateur and pro, and had won the title by smashing Dublin's Bernard Dunne inside a round. Dublin is as far as Munroe has travelled as a pro, halting Italy's reluctant Fabrizio Trotta there in 2008, so Tokyo is going to seem a world away. "If you think London has got a lot of people, wait till you see this place", bemoaned Buchanan of Tokyo in his autobiography, The Tartan Legend. "I felt like I was on another planet, never mind in a foreign country."
Munroe will pick up a big payday in the lucrative Japanese boxing market and has an outside chance if the ageing Nishioka grows even older on the night, but the accurate left hands of the home man and underrated boxing skills make him a prodigious favourite, although in many respects our man is already a winner. Munroe guns for a proper world title against a proper champion in a proper backyard. This smacks of boxing as it used to be.

What's a proper backyard?

Jason Booth's ability to turn up, fight his fight, and a smooth fight it is, will be tested to the very limit by Canada's Steve Molitor later this year. Booth has always been one of those 'natural' fighters for whom preparation is often an afterthought. The craggy 32-year-old kept on winning through a serious spell on the bottle in recent times, just as his brother Nicky managed to win as a crack cocaine addict, but we know all this. Jason challenges the slick-boxing Molitor for the IBF super-bantamweight title in September in Sunderland after beating the bottle and a host of domestic rivals as British and Commonwealth super-bantamweight champion. If you pardon the simile, Booth is like a fine wine as he gets better and better at a stage in his 14-year career when you would expect him to be creaking, fading, retiring. Unlike Nicky, who drifted away from the sport years ago, he continues to slip the net.
Molitor never takes any chances with his conditioning, a man who lives and breathes the gym and whose dedication paid off when he won the IBF title for the second time with a unanimous 12-round decision over South Africa's Takalani Ndlovu earlier this year. The 30-year-old Molitor first won the belt with a dazzling five-round knockout of Hartlepool's Michael Hunter in Hartlepool in 2006, picking off the home man from the start and proceeding to make five defences before Panama's monstrous Celestino Caballero, who flattens opponents for fun, flattened him in four rounds in 2008. Molitor took stock, then forced his way back into world title contention and came good again against Ndlovu in March, with Caballero safely up to featherweight. The two-time champion maintains his weight between fights and often makes do with just a plate of brown rice on the day of a fight. A fighter shouldn't balloon between fights, shouldn't gorge after the weigh-in. Molitor is shining proof.
Southpaw Steve holds a sparkling win over that man Nicky Booth, the less naturally talented of the brothers, in a 12-rounder way back in 2002 in Brentwood. He floored Nicky in the first round and outboxed him for much of the fight, staving off a big effort from the Nottingham man in the later rounds to take the points. Nicky was 'clean' at this time while Jason was down at flyweight, where he won the same British and Commonwealth titles he holds today but failed in three cracks at the European title, which is a worry going into this. You worry about his level. He moved up to super-flyweight in 2003 but lost a bloody 12-rounder to Belfast's clever Damaen Kelly and fell into alcoholism before emerging from the mist in 2006 and re-inventing himself at bantamweight, where he won another Commonwealth title, and then at super-bantamweight, where he is unbeaten and replicated Molitor's five-round win over Hunter, although Hunter was largely spent by this time.
The revenge angle, the fascinating clash of stern discipline and casual unpredictability, make this proper world title fight unmissable. Both men are boxers - movers - quick to switch to the front foot with punches sharp enough to do damage, and with great workrate. Booth goes well to the body but he is unlikely to get any joy with this kid, although you wonder the other way round, and yet nothing seems to faze Jason, who will enjoy great sparring with southpaw Rendall Munroe, a man with his own world title fight to prepare for, a man fresh enough to come again if he loses. You struggle to say the same of Booth. It is now or never for the man who came in from the cold.