Karriss Artingstall overcomes Linzi Buczynskyj | Callum Simpson blasts down Celso Neves: ‘He folded like a deckchair’

Olympic bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall and Barnsley puncher Callum Simpson have been each robust winners on the AO Enviornment in Manchester on Saturday night time.

Callum Simpson blasted down Celso Neves to cease him in simply three rounds on the Lawrence Okolie vs David Mild undercard.

Relishing his step as much as an enormous area present, Simpson entered the ring to raucous cheers from his crowd of supporters.

Simpson and Neves charged into each other on the opening bell. Simpson welcomed that strategy whilst each opened up with punches.

Simpson drove Neves backwards, hammering his opponent right down to his knees.

Neves handle to rise however Simpson stayed on him, unloading a full array of punches.

He beckoned Neves in for a second after which slammed by means of a heavy proper uppercut.

He rocked the top and located the physique however one way or the other Neves made it by means of the opening session.

Neves needed to spoil within the second, holding Simpson in clinches when he may. The motion quietened and Simpson’s arms started to look drained.

However his punches quickly recovered their zip within the third spherical.

Simpson shook Neves, a spiteful uppercut putting by means of inside a mixture. He was hurting his opponent once more and rattled Neves with a flurry to the top.

Nevertheless it was when he stepped in that Simpson slammed a punishing proper in flush. Neves flopped ahead to the canvas, shocked badly.

He solely simply beat the rely however nonetheless regarded unsteady when the referee requested him to step ahead and he needed to be stopped at 1-36.

Simpson was shocked even to see him stand up.

“He simply collapsed like a deckchair in entrance of me,” he stated. “The referee saved him there.”

The Barnsley prizefighter although has stepped into the limelight and made precisely the impression he needed.

Olympic bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall additionally loved an important reception from the gang. From close by Macclesfield, this was a homecoming bout for Artingstall, one in all GB’s stars from the Tokyo Video games.

Linzi Buczynskyj nonetheless, who’s received the Central Space title and solely misplaced as soon as in her skilled profession, was an skilled, aggressive opponent for Artingstall to tackle in simply her third professional outing.

Bolton’s Buczynskyj began cleverly, transferring off, obliging Artingstall to come back after her. Buczynskyj dug in her proper and countered with somewhat uppercut as Artingstall attacked.

However the Olympian likes to use stress. Quickly she was directing Buczynskyj alongside the ropes and unloading her onerous, arrow-straight southpaw cross.

He lead proper hook was stable and Artingstall cracked it into Buczynskyj’s physique earlier than whipping it into the top.

Artingstall was touchdown the strict photographs and profitable the rounds. However Buczynskyj was at all times combative, needing to chase the bout, got here ahead into ring centre to swing for her opponent within the sixth and final spherical.

Artingstall although was a transparent 60-55 winner.

Harvey Lambert, a gifted former GB boxer from Hull, received his second professional bout within the first contest of the night, handily outpointing Casey Brown 40-37 over 4 rounds.

As quickly as he left the ring he was informed his spouse had gone into labour and Lambert needed to rush off.

He hurried to a automobile to begin the 80-mile drive residence to be together with her.

Shakiel Thompson put Robert Talarek beneath sustained stress on the finish of their contest. He had busted up his opponent however Talarek resolutely stayed on his ft and noticed out the total six rounds, dropping the choice 59-54.

Middleweight Aaron McKenna labored Jordan Grant over, busy all through their six-round contest. He lined up clear photographs to take a dominant 60-54 factors win.

A well-matched featherweight bout noticed Penygraig’s Rhys Edwards and Liverpool’s Brian Phillips commerce furiously, the pair exchanging combos, first one attacking, then the opposite.

Phillips struck with a brace of stable photographs however the Welshman countered viciously.

Edwards completed with just a few extra touches of fashion in his work however nonetheless within the final spherical he stood and slugged it out with Phillips.

Edwards received 60-55, however the combat was nearer and tougher fought than that scoreline suggests.

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