THE tenacious Ashley Lane got on top of pre-fight favourite Chris Bourke and stopped him in six rounds inside York Hall to claim the vacant British and vacant Commonwealth bantamweight titles. Referee Lee Every dragged Lane off the Streatham southpaw at 2-09 of the round.
The victory made 33-year-old Lane the first from Northampton to wear the Lonsdale Belt and Mr Every’s intervention sparked wild celebrations among his team, headed by manager Kieran Farrell and coach Dean Lewis.
John Daly, who remembers taking weeks to teach a teenage Lane how to throw a jab at Far Cotton Amateur Boxing Club, fought back tears at ringside. Lane wore the white and
