Hannah Robinson won plenty as an amateur boxer.
The Bishop Auckland girl is now up and running in the professional game after clinching two belts in one memorable night.
Saturday’s Titles on the Tyne event, the first Jobes promotion of 2026, did exactly what it said on the tin, to filch a line from a famous TV advert of yesteryear.
Robinson displayed both quality and grit to leave the Eagles Arena with the IBF European and Commonwealth Silver titles by beating Charlie Sutton over 10 gripping rounds.
The 32-year-old, who trains in Darlington under Peter Shepperson, began brightly and finished with a flourish for a unanimous points verdict against the Bristol boxer who contributed fully to an absorbing fight.
It was scored 98-93 by Scotland’s Darren Maxwell, 98-92 by Benny de Croos of Belgium and 99-91 by Grzegorz Molenda, from Poland.
The bout was very much fought in three parts.
Robinson was in the groove from the sound of the first bell, moving smartly while landing a number of combinations.
It was a pattern which would continue despite the best efforts of Sutton.
However, the 22-year-old got on the front foot in the fifth and again in the sixth when she bloodied Hannah’s nose.
Charlie would carry on her good form with Robinson starting to look a little ragged by the end of the eighth.
But Hannah regained her composure and accuracy in the ninth and then really turned it on in the final two minutes.
You also could not take your eyes off Cyrus Pattinson’s Commonwealth International welterweight slugfest with African Tunde Segun Adeyemi.
It was unfortunate therefore that his victory over the 27-year-old Nigerian had something of an unsatisfactory and controversial conclusion.
The two boxers had traded considerable leather from start to finish in a contest where there was no regard for defence.
Adeyemi had been felled by two low blows from the Alnwick southpaw and went down again milliseconds after the final bell sounded. That is how it felt from ringside.
He lay face down on the canvas and it was hard to tell whether Mr Maxwell had simply ended the fight after the conclusion of 10 rounds or stopped it in favour of Pattinson.
It turns out he’d stopped Adeyemi with an official time of two minutes, 58 seconds.
The African corner were apoplectic, claiming another low shot and from my angle at ringside it was hard to tell. But the only man who mattered in all this, Mr Maxwell, ruled it was a legitimate punch.
It was the 32-year-old’s 10th win and his second belt having previously won an IBO Continental welterweight title.
Seaham’s Joe Miller got his first professional belt around his waist after his finest performance yet in the pro game.
Like Pattinson, Joe was up against Nigerian opposition in Sodiq Oyakojo.
The 26-year-old, from Lagos, was similarly game and tough and in round two was very much the aggressor.
But thereafter it was all-Miller who displayed great skill, controlling his first eight-rounder with his accuracy while his opponent chucked wild swings, 99 per cent of them missed the target.
In the fight of the night at Titles on the Tyne, Matt McCallum made Northern Area history in Newcastle, where he stopped rival Adam Hepple in their showdown for the vacant light-heavyweight crown.
His triumph at one minute 35 seconds of round eight made him a three-weight Northern Area champion after adding this belt go his previous successes at super-middleweight and middle.
Words: Roy Kelly Picture: Jennifer Charlton
