POW TITLE HOPES DASHED WITH SURPRISE DEFEAT

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Barcelona’s Emmanuel Feuzeu is the new WBC Latino light heavyweight champion of the world. He won the title by beating local fighter Ricky Pow with a ninth round TKO in Dolores on Saturday night.

But the contest was not without controversy as, going into the penultimate round of this ten round contest, Pow seemed to be shaping toward a deserved win, but with barely 10 seconds of the round remaining he was caught with a sharp left which seemed to stop the British fighter in his tracks.

As Pow then clung onto the ropes, the only time he had looked under any difficulty, Feuzeu came in for the kill, but had seemingly run out of time. The bell rang and despite looking groggy Pow walked back to his corner. With a full minute to recover we were all caught unawares, however, when the referee walked over to Pow and waved him out.

As Feuzeu was lifted off his feet in celebration by his cornermen both Pow and his trainer Alberto were in total disbelief. Pow had quickly shaken off any ill effects and was more than ready to continue. Whilst he had been stunned by Feuzeu’s short onslaught he was by no means hurt.

The large crowd then made their feelings known to the match referee as the Cameroon boxer celebrated his success. It was clearly a premature stoppage with the official jumping in far too early and quite probably one that he now regrets.

Feuzeu told the Leader that he had travelled down to the Costa Blanca fully expecting to take the crown home. “I have been working very hard for many weeks and I have watched Pow on UTube. I am strong and I am fit and I was always confident that I had enough to win the title. Pow was a good opponent. Although I don’t know him he fought a good and fair contest and I wish him well in the future.”

The two evenly matched fighters spent the early rounds weighing each other up. A couple of early lefts from Pow rocked the Cameroon but as the pair traded blows through to the dramatic end they were difficult to put any distance between.

Going into the ninth I had scored 4 of the rounds to Pow and just one to Feuzeu so the young Brit looked to be in good shape as he continued with his front foot strategy. Then just the one lapse, a powerful left hook from the visitor and the whole nature of the evening was turned on it’s head.

Pow was clearly disappointed and after bravely taking the plaudits of his many fans he quickly retired to the dressing room to lick his wounds. Feuzeu meanwhile continued to take the applause from his new found admirers.

In the evenings other contests the Croatian heavyweight Ivo Andelic was clearly delighted with his scrappy victory over Torrevieja’s Magomed Azuev ‘King’ Moja. With a major disadvantage in weight, Moja spent a large proportion of the fight attempting to spoil his opponents tactics, but the 30 year old Swiss based fighter had more than enough firepower to end the Russsian’s four fight unbeaten record.

At super featherweight Armenia’s Mikael Mkrtchyan was a surprising winner over 24 year old Eder Berreta from Peru while the popular Feliks Kleins was in the ring for the first time in two years to earn a deserved points victory over Valencia’s Fran Gonzalez in the welterweight division.

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