Boxing North East
Lewis Ritson’s alliance with coach Neil Fannan is over. Punch-lines understands ‘The Sandman’ will now be trained by dad, Davy, at his father’s Forest Hall gym. Ritson had risen to …
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Savannah Marshall is excited to have been handed her first fight of 2021 even though a couple of key questions remain unanswered. Of the four Ws, who, what, where and …
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Tommy Ward would welcome a clash against highly-regarded Kiko Martinez for his debut fight as a featherweight. Punch-lines reported last month how the unbeaten 26-year-old had called time on his …
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Tommy Ward’s days as a world-class super-bantamweight are over. But don’t panic, the 26-year-old is instead firmly intent on becoming a featherweight world champion. Unbeaten Ward has found beating the …
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Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall. It’s a fight first talked about when Noah was still a young carpenter. But it is getting ever nearer. So near you can almost feel …
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Savannah Marshall world champion. Four words we’ve already seen before but now the Hartlepool boxer has completed an amazing double after stopping Hannah Rankin to win the vacant WBO middleweight …
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“I’ve boxed in half empty arenas, I’ve even boxed in places where only my dad’s been there.” Those are the words of Savannah Marshall who tonight faces Hannah Rankin for …
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Just who is Savannah Marshall facing in London? The simple two-word answer, of course, is Hannah Rankin, a London-based 30-year-old, officially listed as from Glasgow, but actually from the picturesque …
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Savannah Marshall is not known as the ‘Silent Assassin’ for nothing – she prefers actions to words. But the Hartlepool boxer has put her shyness and modesty aside to say …
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There is no love lost between them, which is just as well because the fists are about to fly. Savannah Marshall and Hannah Rankin’s battle of Britain is only a …
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