on-Trent (UK) – Lawton is back on track
July 29th, 2010Lawton is back on track
0 Comments | Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK), May 19, 2008 | by BOXING
Boxing: Lightweight Scott Lawton claimed a six-round points victory over Youssef Al Hamidi at Stoke’s King’s Hall.
Al Hamidi, a tenacious Dewsbury-based Syrian, had won only four of his 14 paid bouts. But he is a better boxer than his record might suggest and recently out-pointed Manchester’s Anthony Crolla.
Lawton, from Cellarhead, used his height and reach advantage to good effect, to keep the Syrian at arm’s length.
While Al Hamidi did manage to occasionally roll his way inside to score with solid counter hooks, his replies were of insufficient volume.
Birches Head welterweight Scott Miller improved his record to 4- 0 with another impressive performance.
This time he forced Walsall veteran Jimmy Beech to retire on his stool at the end of the second round with a cut.
Miller had taken a while to have a look at Beech, but was quick to up the pace, catching the Walsall boxer with a pair of solid right hooks to the head and a right uppercut which left him holding on.
He then launched into a spell of sustained pressure, during which he switched his attack from body to head.
Referee Rob Chalmers was waved across at the interval to accept Beech’s retirement.
Tunstall welterweight Jimmy Doherty lost out by a single point to Alfreton’s similarly unbeaten Dale Miles.
Doherty had seemed to have done enough to earn the nod against the Derbyshire fighter, who only really began to work his way back into the contest from the halfway stage.