Davies Drops And Dethrones Leach To Become British Champion

Liam Davies (12-0, 5 KOs) turned the brand new British Tremendous Bantamweight champion in Telford on Saturday night time.

The unbeaten 26-year-old made it a tasty dozen victories beating Marc Leach (18-2-1, 4 KOs) to finish the Salford man’s three-month reign as title holder.

After a minute of spherical one the combat was turned on its head when Davies landed a proper hand straight down the center to drop Leach. An unintentional conflict of heads leading to a reduce over the bridge of the challenger’s nostril added to the chaotic begin.

Davies was assured, and Leach was now cautious of the ability in entrance of him however quickly acquired caught with a flush one-two within the second together with his palms by his aspect leaving himself open for catastrophe. The counter puncher sorted himself out by the third and took the spherical thanks solely to his left hand which was an issue for the loudly supported residence favorite.

The challenger acquired the bit between his tooth from rounds 4 to eight as he made the combat bodily doing his finest to make sure Leach couldn’t catch him at distance. Davies was starting to swarm all around the champion and even when he wasn’t throwing punches, he was at all times on the entrance foot unsettling Leach.

Within the seventh Davies appeared over-confident and tried to double up the proper hand believing nothing was coming again but it surely did. A swift left hand introduced him all the way down to earth, and the fighters traded briefly. It proved to be one other defining second within the bout that noticed Leach kick on notably within the remaining few rounds.