SATURDAY 10TH JULY FIGHT NITE AT RYTONS SPORTS CONNECTION

ANDY "THE TECHNICIAN" HALDER VERSUS CONROY McINTOSH

WHEN ANDY HALDER STEPS INTO THE RING THIS COMING SATURDAY  IT WILL BE ALMOST TWO YEARS TO THE DAY THAT COVENTRY FANS WERE TO BE TREATED TO THE DEBUT FIGHT OF A MAN WE HAD HEARD A LOT ABOUT ANDY DIDN'T DISAPPOINT THE FANS HE BEAT MARTIN SCOTLAND ON POINTS OVER FOUR ROUNDS SINCE THAT NIGHT ANDY HAS HAD ANOTHER ELEVEN FIGHTS BRINGING HIS RECORD TO TEN WINS AND TWO LOSSES ONE OF THOSE BEING THE FARCE AGAINST MAXWELL.  ANDY GAVE HIS FANS A SCARE ON THE 13TH SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN HIS RIBS WERE BADLY DAMAGED DURING HIS SIX ROUND POINTS VICTORY OVER LEEROY WILLIAMSON ALTHOUGH ANDY HAD TO CANCELL HIS FORTH COMING BOUT AGAINST ANTHONY FARNELL HE ONCE AGAIN BOUNCED BACK.  ANDY GOES IN AGAINST CONROY McINTOSH FOR THE THIRD TIME FOR THE VACANT MIDLANDS AREA MIDDLE-WEIGHT TITLE LET US HOPE THIS IS A STEPPING STONE TO GO FOR BIGGER THINGS.

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN ABOUT A YEAR AGO WHEN HARRY CAME TO COVENTRY AND WATCHING THIS LAD GO THROUGH THE PACES THAT NIGHT WITH COVENTRY FAVOURITES ANDY HALDER AND BAZ CAREY YOU COULD TELL HE HAD CLASS WRITTEN ALL OVER A WELL EDUCATED MAN WHO LOVES HIS BOXING .  HARRY GOES IN AGAINST CHOI TSEVEENPUREV FOR THE BRITISH MASTERS FEATHER-WEIGHT TITLE AND THIS FIGHT WILL BE AN INDICATION OF HOW FAR HARRY CAN GO.  THE 32 YEAR OLD CHOI CAN PUNCH A BIT WITH 9 K.O'S TO HIS CREDIT CHOI HAS WON 16 LOST 3 IN 19 BOUTS. HARRY'S RECORD WON 13 (K.O.'S 1) LOST 2 DRAWN 2 TOTAL 17.
ROB NORTON VERSUS CHRIS WOOLAS






ROB NORTON  GOES IN AGAINST CHRIS WOOLAS FOR WHAT SHOULD BE ANOTHER WIN WHEN ROB IS ON FORM HE CAN GO IN AGAINST THE BEST FIGHTERS IN EUROPE YOU ONLY HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1999 WHEN ROB HELD THE W.B.U. CRUISER-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD THIS IS ONLY ROB'S EIGHTH FIGHT SINCE THAT NIGHT, HE IS STILL RATED 6TH IN THE U.K. BY SECONDS OUT WITH A RECORD OF WON 24 (K.O.'S 14) LOST 3 DRAWN 1. IT WAS A BIG UPSET LAST SEPTEMBER WHEN ROB WAS BEATEN OVER 12 ROUNDS BY MARK HOBSON FOR THE VACANT BRITISH AND COMMON WEALTH CRUISER TITLES BUT HE IS NOW ON THE WAY BACK TO THE TOP AND LET US HOPE ANOTHER TITLE SHOT IS NOT TO FAR AWAY.  CHRIS WOOLAS IS A VERY EXPERIENCED FIGHTER AND FOUGHT A DRAW WITH ROB OVER 6 ROUNDS IN 1994 HE ALSO FOUGHT NEIL SIMPSON TWICE (94 AND 97) BEATING NEIL TWICE HIS RECORD READS WON 17 LOST 28 AND SEVEN DRAWS

RICHARD SWALLOW THE NORTHAMPTON BASED MAN GOES IN AGAINST KEITH JONES FROM CEFN HENGOED RICHARD IS NO STRANGER TO COVENTRY AND AND HE HAS A HUGE NUMBER OF LOCAL FANS, SINCE HE MADE HIS COMEBACK AFTER A FIVE YEAR  LAY OFF (2002) HE HAS WON SIX AND LOST THREE FIGHTS RICHARD IS A CLASSY HARD PUNCHING FIGHTER WHO WILL GO ALL OUT TO WIN THIS ONE ALTHOUGH KEITH HAS ONLY WON NINE FIGHTS IN A HUNDRED BOUTS HIS LAST FIGHT BEING AGAINST BRADLEY PRICE A TOP TEN RATED FIGHTER LAST WEEK AT NEWPORT HE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY WHEN YOU LOOK THROUGH KEITH'S RECORD IT IS LIKE A WHO'S WHO OF BOXING ALL THE TOP NAMES ARE THERE.