WBO #4 middleweight Danny Dignum (14-0-1, 8 KOs) successfully defended his WBO Euro belt with a sixth round KO against Grant Dennis (17-4, 3 KOs) on Friday night at the iconic York Hall in London. Dignum dropped Dennis three times in round six to end it. Time was 2:31.
Unbeaten IBF #3, WBA #6, WBO #11 bantamweight Lee McGregor (11-0-1, 9 KOs) and Diego Alberto Ruiz (24-3-1, 12 KOs) battled to a ten round draw in a super bantamweight bout. Close, hard-fought contest ending in a 95-95 stalemate.
In a rare U.S. TV appearance, famed super middleweight journeyman Lewis van Poetsch moved to 9-138-2 with 2 KOs after a four round decision loss to Joe Giles (2-0, 0 KOs). “Poetschy” landed a lot of clean punches but wasn’t busy enough, losing 40-36.
The UK has a ton of these professional losers with 100+ losses. Nobody builds unbeaten records for newbie boxers like the Brits.
How does a guy with 138 losses get licensed?
The British Board Of Control supervidor makes notes on these guys. Some of them rarely take punches and take the 6 rounds points loss. Mind you some of these fights are blatant robberies against the guy with a bad record.
Thats so true. Alot of those guys fight every week or two. They fight younger guys, prospects, rookies, novices and a few mid level types. They are really good at surviving. Taking little punishment and know enough tricks to test a 4-0 prospect. Their k.o. by loss ratio to total losses is usually very low.
The states used to have a lot of these guys. Bruce Strauss, Regie Strickland and another guy…. blackie something or other.
For a while there was the opposite side. The winners of the loser circuit. Buck Smith and a few others.
In the UK these fighters are like a tradition ! their usefull for the young up and coming prospects..