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BREAKING NEWS! BCB’s Midlands Boxing Super Series: The Super Featherweights

BCB Promotions’ are delighted to announce BCB’s Midlands Boxing Super Series: The Super Featherweights.

Eight Midlands boxers will compete over three nights but there can only be one winner who will be crowned the Midlands Area Super Featherweight Champion!

Old Hill’s Manny Zaber (10-1), Birmingham’s Paul Holt (6-5), Chasetown’s Luke Jones (3-1-1), Tamworth’s Louis Fielding (6-4), West Bromwich’s Jack Summers (3-2), Tamworth’s Josh Baillie (5-3), Leicester’s Joe Ducker (3-4-2), and Birmingham’s Waqas Mohammed (2-0-1) will all compete to be become the last man standing.

The draw will take place at Grosvenor Casino Walsall tomorrow evening (Thursday, 17th August) under the watchful eye of Midlands Area Secretary, Richard Vaughan. Boxers and trainers will also be present.

The quarter finals will take place at Walsall Town Hall on Sunday, 15th October. There will be four fights of 6 x 3 minute rounds. The semi-finals will take place late November/early December over 8 x 3’s with the final taking place early in 2018 at such time that current champion, Leon Woodstock, will have vacated his crown.

“We’re really looking forward to what we hope will be the first of a series of competitions that will see local fighters compete for not only local bragging rights but also a Midlands Title,” explained Head of Boxing at BCB, Errol Johnson. “We are grateful to the British Boxing Board of Control and Martin Florey, Richard Vaughan and Rob Smith in particular for their support. We are also thankful to Leon Woodstock and his team for informing us of their decision to vacate in time readiness for the final next year.

“It’s a chance to see who is the best out of the eight contenders. Hopefully, Midlands fight fans will back the concept and we can do more BCB Midlands Boxing Super Series at a variety of weights. Let’s see who is the last man standing!”

Tickets are priced at £35 general admission (£40 on the door) and £60 (VIP Ringside

Lovely wee tournament that.

Really excited by this ok some of the lads records are patchy but to most a Midlands area title is their world title with no real 'home' or 'away' fighter this should make for some cracking matches. Hoping to be at all 3 events.

I agree...tournaments and evenly matched fights are fine by me

More events like his would be good for the sport and keep fighters active.

Excellent concept and a great way to fill a vacant title.

I wonder whether fighters have to do minimum tickets here or if there is a sponsor involved?

Hopefully other promotersin different areas will follow suit, and more weight classes done too.

Cazelo wrote:Excellent concept and a great way to fill a vacant title.

I wonder whether fighters have to do minimum tickets here or if there is a sponsor involved?

Hopefully other promotersin different areas will follow suit, and more weight classes done too.

It is sponsored by a local casino and I noticed they are looking for a local sponsor.

You'd think most lads would do decent ticket sales for this though all relatively local plus exciting format / selling point for some of their mates/fans who may have stopped buying tickets for standard 4 rounders or after a couple of loses.

Also hopefully all local boxing fans get behind it. I like many have been moaning too often the local shows are just standard prospect v journeyman throughout the card and nothing else but this is something very different and deserves people to support it.

Who's everyone's money on?

Cazelo wrote:Excellent concept and a great way to fill a vacant title.

I wonder whether fighters have to do minimum tickets here or if there is a sponsor involved?

Hopefully other promotersin different areas will follow suit, and more weight classes done too.

Kieran Farrell was supposed to be doing something similar around the North West but it's all gone very quiet.

ste1983 wrote:

Cazelo wrote:Excellent concept and a great way to fill a vacant title.

I wonder whether fighters have to do minimum tickets here or if there is a sponsor involved?

Hopefully other promotersin different areas will follow suit, and more weight classes done too.

It is sponsored by a local casino and I noticed they are looking for a local sponsor.

You'd think most lads would do decent ticket sales for this though all relatively local plus exciting format / selling point for some of their mates/fans who may have stopped buying tickets for standard 4 rounders or after a couple of loses.

Also hopefully all local boxing fans get behind it. I like many have been moaning too often the local shows are just standard prospect v journeyman throughout the card and nothing else but this is something very different and deserves people to support it.
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I'm certainly hoping to come along,first local show I've bothered with in two years or more

Counter-puncher wrote:

ste1983 wrote:

Cazelo wrote:Excellent concept and a great way to fill a vacant title.

I wonder whether fighters have to do minimum tickets here or if there is a sponsor involved?

Hopefully other promotersin different areas will follow suit, and more weight classes done too.

It is sponsored by a local casino and I noticed they are looking for a local sponsor.

You'd think most lads would do decent ticket sales for this though all relatively local plus exciting format / selling point for some of their mates/fans who may have stopped buying tickets for standard 4 rounders or after a couple of loses.

Also hopefully all local boxing fans get behind it. I like many have been moaning too often the local shows are just standard prospect v journeyman throughout the card and nothing else but this is something very different and deserves people to support it.
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I'm certainly hoping to come along,first local show I've bothered with in two years or more

Yeah I've hardly done any last couple of years either but fancy this and Tyler Denny v Tom Stokes couple weeks before too

ste1983 wrote:

Counter-puncher wrote:

ste1983 wrote:
It is sponsored by a local casino and I noticed they are looking for a local sponsor.

You'd think most lads would do decent ticket sales for this though all relatively local plus exciting format / selling point for some of their mates/fans who may have stopped buying tickets for standard 4 rounders or after a couple of loses.

Also hopefully all local boxing fans get behind it. I like many have been moaning too often the local shows are just standard prospect v journeyman throughout the card and nothing else but this is something very different and deserves people to support it.
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I'm certainly hoping to come along,first local show I've bothered with in two years or more

Yeah I've hardly done any last couple of years either but fancy this and Tyler Denny v Tom Stokes couple weeks before too

I'm going to Denny v stokes. Looks a good fight that

Draw has been done.

Zaber v summers
Holt v Mohammed
Fielding v Baillie
Jones v ducker

6x3s. October in Walsall

Brilliant work from Errol Johnson. Keeps boxers active + paydays + genuine title to aim for.

THEBUTCH wrote:Brilliant work from Errol Johnson. Keeps boxers active + paydays + genuine title to aim for.

Yeah it is. Just a guess but I reckon jon pegg helped out as well. Funny all errols fighters have drawn each other and same for Peggy

Paul Holt out due to retiring and replaced by 7-0 Indi Sangha who beat Paul in his last fight.

Quarter finals just over a week away (Sunday 15th) looking forward to this one.