MANCHESTER
DECEMBER 16
WHOLE SHOW
ATMOSPHERE
THEY say that when opportunities come along, one should grab them with both hands, and that’s exactly what Shaw’s Jack Rafferty did when, on this 10th anniversary Black Flash promotion at Bowlers, he finally met Rotherham’s Lee Appleyard for the vacant Commonwealth super-lightweight title.
Rafferty opened strongly behind the jab and barely a minute had gone when ‘The Demolition Man’ lived up to his moniker by slamming home a right which sent his rival sprawling and almost out between the ropes.
