On a brilliant night at Eventim Olympia, Liverpool, all Scouse fighters took wins in their bouts. John Edwardson, Blane Hyland, Joe McGrail, Frankie Stringer and the two main bouts, James ‘Jazza’ Dickens and Peter McGrail kept the wins in Liverpool. Ireland’s Steven Cairns also won his fight. All fight bar one (the main fight, which was won by TKO) all went to the judges decision.
John Edwardson vs Simas Volosinas
Edwardson began the bout the strongest fighter, dominating his opponent, Volosinas, in the first few rounds. The Lithuanian struggles to come to grips with the Scousers movement, with the crowd urging the unbeaten scouser. His final few rounds were strong, with some nice combos and a right jab meant overall, Edwardson was victorious.
Blane Hyland vs Mikey Young
Mikey Young deserves full credit from the opening few rounds, managing to avoid several digs thrown by Hyland. In latter rounds, the Bolton lad was given difference credit. He was taking shots thrown by Hyland well, managing to maintain balance and throwing unphasing shots and combinations. The Scouser ended the fine dominant, with plenty of mean hits on his opponent, including a powerful right handed body shot meant that Hyland won the bout and overall, is 7-1.
Joe McGrail vs Alexander Taylor
Both fighters started with full velocity, exchanging several blows. McGrail’s highlight was an astonishing uppercut to the Nicaraguan, who himself threw everything at McGrail. An accidental clash meant a nasty cut was opened above McGrail’s eye however, this didn’t stop him. Despite injuring his right hand during the bout, his left handed shot were dangerous, landing on his opponent - with his right hand acting as a guard. McGrail ultimately won on points 59-55 and remains undefeated.
Steven Cairns vs Angelo Turco
Despite a pretty even first two rounds, Cairns stole the show from there. Plenty of jabs and combinations had his opponents back against the wall, and body shot seem to injure him. The more and more it went on, the more he was riled up. Body shots and combinations seemed a repetitive pattern for Cairns, who gained the win on PTS.
Jazza Dickens vs Lerato Dlamini
The fight was even at first, with both fighters arguably winning respective ones. Dlamini was the fighter with the ascendancy between Rounds 3-7, with body shots and some combos wobbled Dickens, before he took over. Some hazardous shots by the Scouser had the African on the deck and threw dangerous digs, with Dlamini only partially reacting to Dickens new burst of energy. Dickens won the bout on PTS, which was followed by a huge roar of delight by the Scouse contingent inside the Olympia.
Peter McGrail vs Alexander Espinoza - Main Card
Espinoza never really got going and struggled throughout to deal with the constant threat of McGrail’s shots, who seemed right up for it with some extra motivation from the boisterous crowd in the arena. Combinations and body shots wobbled the Nicaraguan and two nice shots, courtesy of a right hand in Round Three and the two, in the first and the fourth, that floored his opponent. Espinoza retired on the stool, meaning McGrail gave the crowd what they wanted to see.
Frankie Stringer vs Lee Hallett
Stringer dominated the first round, landing lots of body shots to his UK counterpart however, the next round was even. Blows flowed for both however, the tempo dropped and not much happened for the rest of the fight except some nice combinations from Stringer, who, like most, won on points and remained undefeated.
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