Saturday Fight Night , June 11th

British Heavyweight Eliminator: David Price TKO2 Tom Dallas

Dallas stepped in at a week's notice for this fight, having fought just 8 weeks ago, and never looked like troubling Price. Price is a tall and rangy boxer and got his left jab working early on meaning Dallas struggled to get in range to land any decent shots. Price controlled the first round and the jab was regularly followed up by a right before moving back out of range.

Price was landing regularly as the second progressed and looked completely unruffled. Dallas was still struggling to make any real impact on the fight, save for a decent right to the body, when with 30 seconds left in the second round Price landed a gentle left to set up a right cross which caught Dallas flush on the jaw, sent him sprawling to the canvas, and ended the fight.

Price was never in trouble, was able to pick his punches behind his left jab and had the look of a quality operator.

British and Commonwealth Flyweight Titles: Chris Edwards SD12 Paul Edwards

A cracking match up between a 35 year old who is used to going the distance and a 24 year old who had never gone beyond 6 rounds. Veteran Chris Edwards seems to only have one gear: forward. From the opening to final bell he advanced behind a high guard and threw punch after punch, though few were of great quality or power as he was never properly set. The fight changed and swung on how Paul Edwards boxed over the course of the fight.

For the first half of the fight Paul was the better boxer. He moved well, put in the better quality punches, and caught Chris time after time as he advanced, with a combination of both head and body punches. In the fifth he started to drop his guard and wait for Chris, knowing he would beat him to the punch and landing some quality upper cuts. The problem was that though he never looked in trouble, he also never looked like hurting his opponent. This was underlined in the sixth when he landed an upper cut flush on the chin which Chris took yet continued coming forward unabated.

Having given his best shot and not stopped the relentless march Paul began to tire, and in the middle rounds his work was noticably slower and sloppier with Chris now in the driving seat and landing the better punches. As the fight wore on Paul looked heavily fatigued at times and was unable to land anything substantial, being solidly outworked by the older man. By the final round it impossible to guess how the judges had scored it and both boxers came out punching. It was an all-action finale with a lot of punches thrown and very little defence, and could easily have been called either way.

When the scorecards came in there was only one round in it on all three of the judges' cards, with Chris getting the narrow win. It was a fight which never dropped in pace thanks to the constant forward movement of Chris, and though Paul flagged as the fight progressed his second wind towards the end of the fight was almost enough to give him the win. A definite contender for a rematch and with a little more punch power and conditioning, Paul would start as favourite.