BILAL FAWAZ captured the vacant Southern Area middleweight title, clearly outscoring Chatham’s Gideon Onyenani at York Hall.
After 10 rather scrappy rounds, in which both were warned for various infractions, referee Lee Every scored for Fawaz by 97-94. In fact, Onyenani wouldn’t have won the title even if he’d won the fight, as he came in 1lb 3ozs over the 160lbs limit. This has been common practice for some time, and I’ve never been happy with it – it puts the fighter who did make
