BOXING returned to Magna for the second successive week, with ambitious promoter Izzy Asif serving up highly enjoyable fare to another sizeable crowd.
Appropriately topping the bill at a venue that was a steelworks in a previous life, was Sheffield’s ‘Dr Steel’, Shakiel Thompson, against Bulgarian Vladimir Georgiev, who gave him quite a fight.
Keeping it long, Thompson opened an early lead. While Georgiev was having some success, it was initially too rare, and his shots were falling short too frequently.
Early action in the