The great Graham Houston gives his take on Friday's fight, taken from fightwriter.com
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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.
. I sway Daws' way ever so slightly. The engine on Lenny is staggeringly efficient.
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 
. Bami's Matchroom so it's a fight that can be made.