Boxing: Hamer Boxing Club fight reports

Two boxers from Hamer Amateur Boxing Club claimed victory over their local opponents on Friday 10 February at different venues up and down the country.

The first successful Hamer boxer that night was 17-year-old Kieren “Special K” McMenamy, who travelled to St Basil’s Social Club in Widnes to meet Phum Pheatmod of Halton Riverside Boxing Club. When the bell rang to start the first round, Kieren came out of the blue corner amid a deafening roar of encouragement from the supporters of Pheatmod. He instantly showed his intention when he stormed after his Hamer opponent whilst throwing hooks to both the body and head, to raise the decibels within the room even louder.

After the initial surge of punches thrown by Pheatmod, Kieren began to find his range, when he took to the centre of the ring to use his jab to keep Pheatmod at a distance and when the Halton boxer attacked, Kieren constantly unloaded his right hand to the chin. This happened throughout the round as Pheatmod stormed after his Hamer opponent and when he did manage to momentarily trap Kieren on the ropes, the Rochdale boxer used swift footwork to spin off the ropes to unload even more sizzling punches to his opponent’s head.

Although the noise within the room was still loud in favour of Pheatmod, it was around this time that Kieren began to slowly back his opponent onto the ropes with his jab, before unloading swift one-two combinations to the head.

When the bell rang to end the round, his coach Steven Connellan told him he was doing great, to do exactly what he was doing and force his opponent onto the ropes so that he can unload more of his long armed punches at Pheatmod’s head.

The bell rang for the second round and the Hamer boxer came out to show his intention when he landed a perfect right hand to the chin of his on-coming opponent. Pheatmod attacked again, only to be met by another sizzling right hand. When the Widnes boxer stepped into range again, Kieren unloaded a blistering right uppercut to the jaw. As the round progressed, Pheatmod was to receive a further supply of punches to the head.

Before the start of the third and last round, the Hamer coach noticed that Pheatmod was slowing down in his attacks, so he told Kieren to begin to take the fight to his opponent a bit more and force him onto the ropes before unloading his hooks and his uppercuts. However, when the bell rang for the last round Pheatmod instantly showed the opposite to tiring when he began to force Kieren onto the ropes once again with a constant barrage of punches. This continued for a good thirty seconds or so, before Kieren took to the middle of the ring once again to keep his distance whilst constantly landing his right hand.

From there on Pheatmod began to show signs of tiredness, yet he continued to step forward and at one point he had Kieren momentarily trapped upon the ropes, but when the Widnes boxer moved in to land his punches, Kieren spun off the ropes before he landed a bombardment of punches to his opponents head as Pheatmod lay upon the ropes, which forced the referee to step in and administer the Widnes boxer a standing eight count, whilst Kieren waited in the neutral corner ready to prolong the attack. When the referee allowed the fight to continue, the bell instantly rang to end the round and the contest was awarded to the Hamer boxer by a unanimous decision.

 

 

The next Hamer boxer to step into the ring that night was 19-year-old Aeron “The Viking” Maddocks, who travelled to The Point in Sunderland to meet Beau Smith of Wearmouth Boxing Club in a brutal battle of wills that saw both boxers take extreme punishment off each other from the very start as they stood toe to toe in the centre of the ring to unload punch after punch upon each other. The action never stopped throughout the round as both boxers laid heavy bombardment upon each other, which instantly excited the crowd from within the room.

The second round was another frantic display of boxing, which saw Aeron land a heavy punch. Aeron was then to be rewarded with a return solid blow off Smith, who in turn received even more gruelling blows to his head, as both boxers stood in the middle of the ring landing punch after punch upon each other. Then suddenly Aeron landed a power punch which forced the mouth guard out of his opponents mouth. This gave the Hamer boxer a moment of rest bite before he was allowed to step back into the action yet again. Aeron instantly landed a powerful right hand to the chin, which momentarily staggered his opponent before Smith came right back at the Hamer boxer with punches of his own.

Then just before the bell rang to end the round, the screaming and shouting from the crowd reached another decibel when both boxers stood in the middle of the ring once again to unload yet another hail of punches upon each other with great intensity.

The pace of the punishing action never slowed down in the third and last round as both boxers stuck to their script of entertaining the crowd when they took to the middle of the ring yet again to unload yet another great intensity of hurtful punches upon each other. When the bell rang to end the round, the nod from the judges could have gone ether way, but it was the Hamer boxer Aeron “The Viking” Maddocks who was to receive the nod by a split-decision.