Sam Noakes (15-0, 14 KOs) stays the European light-weight champion with an eighth-round technical knockout victory over Gianluca Ceglia (21-5-1, 4 KOs).
The official time of stoppage was 3:00 as Ceglia didn’t come out for spherical 9. With the win, Noakes defends the European title for the primary time. He received the belt with a unanimous resolution win in opposition to Yvan Mendy in April.
Noakes-Ceglia headlined a Queensberry Promotions card at York Corridor in London, England. Combat followers in the UK might catch all of the motion on TNT Sports activities.
Sam Noakes Comfortably Retains His European Title
Combat Recap
Noakes regularly broke down his opponent over eight rounds. Whereas Ceglia did come ahead within the first, he was on the again foot by the top of the spherical. The Italian saved a decent guard early on, stopping the bout from having an early finish. Regardless of this, Ceglia’s resistance weakened because the struggle went on.
Within the center rounds, Ceglia gave the impression to be out of stamina. Noakes needed to go to the ropes to land his photographs. Following the conclusion of spherical eight, Ceglia was pulled out of the competition. This allowed Noakes to win by way of technical knockout and retain his European title.
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Put up-Combat Interview
Sam Noakes
“You recognize what? I believe his expertise confirmed,” mentioned Noakes. “And I believe it was a harder struggle than I believed it will be but it surely was good rounds…”
“I believe, as Francis [Warren] mentioned, we ain’t by no means seen this out right here, calling folks out the entire profession. So we ain’t going to alter it now. We’re simply going to maintain staying in our lane, protecting taking the fights that come up, preserve stepping up each time. Pay attention, if that telephone name rings and says there’s a world title subsequent week, I’m taking it. That’s what we’re within the recreation for…We’ll simply preserve doing what we’re doing.”
Undercard Outcomes
Masood Abdulah (11-0, 7 KOs) received a unanimous resolution in opposition to George Stewart (7-1, 1 KO). Scores for the 12-round featherweight bout have been 118-110 throughout the board. With the win, Abdulah wins the vacant Commonwealth title.
Steven Cairns (9-0, 5 KOs) received on factors in opposition to Ezequiel Gregores (3-16, 0 KOs). Referee Lee Each had the six-round tremendous light-weight struggle 60-54.
Christian Fetti (2-0, 0 KOs) received on factors in opposition to Joshua Ocampo in a four-round tremendous featherweight contest. Referee Amy Pu had it 40-36.
Charlie Hickford (3-0, 1 KO) received on factors in opposition to Darwing Martinez (8-23-2, 6 KOs) in a four-round featherweight contest. Referee Mark Bates had it 39-37.
Luke McCormack (2-0, 2 KOs) received by way of second-round technical knockout in opposition to Petr Brodsky (4-3, 3 KOs). The time of stoppage for this six-round tremendous light-weight conflict was 2:08. McCormack scored two knockdowns earlier than referee Each put an finish to proceedings.
Joshua Frankham (11-0, 2 KOs) received on factors in opposition to Angel Emilov (11-57-3, 7 KOs). Referee Bates had the six-round middleweight struggle 59-55.
John Isaacs (1-0, 0 KOs) received on factors in opposition to Marek Čureja (2-3, 2 KOs) in a four-round tremendous light-weight bout. Referee Bates had it 40-36.
Keano White (1-0, 0 KOs) received on factors in opposition to Santiago Garces (4-32-5, 2 KOs) in a four-round tremendous light-weight contest. Referee Each had it 40-36.
