Gary Buckland successfully retains BBBC super featherweight gold against Paul Truscott - Boxing news
Gary Buckland, the current British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) super featherweight champion, successfully defended his gold against fellow country man Paul Truscott, the former Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight champion, by collecting a unanimous
decision in his favour.
The Saturday night event was promoted by Ricky Hatton of Hatton Promotions and the ring for the March 24, 2012 event was stretched at Ponds Forge Arena situated in Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Gary, 25, had a slight experience advantage over his age fellow Paul. The Cardiff hailing Gary has been in a total 26 bouts and came out victorious in 24. He has collected just eight of his wins by knockout.
Well known as the ‘Dynamo’, Buckland successfully secures the number one position in his country’s rankings and sits at 13th seat in world rankings. The orthodox stance Briton snatched the apex British gold from Gary Sykes and was entering in his first title
defence bout against Paul.
Truscott, also known as the ‘Trussy’, has been in a total 20 bouts and came out victorious in 18. He has collected just three wins by knockout and lacked the power game substantially.
The Middlesbrough Paul last collected a loss in a Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight title bout and since then was on a five-bout win streak. Paul, though did not had the power game or the home town advantage in his favour yet possessed one significant
aspect that might have altered the results of the bout altogether if Paul would have used it appropriately.
Truscott had the height advantage and was able to throw powerful jabs from a safe distance while evading Gary’s raw powered jabs. But this did not happen as Gary moved forward while keeping a stern defensive mode and battered Paul by his well targeted fists.
Gary’s punches overwhelmed Paul and in the 10th round the whole crowd witnessed the Middlesbrough lad flattened on the ring floor. From then onwards, Paul was unable to even defend himself and hardly kept his senses together till the bell of the last round
rang.
Gary, who successfully retained his newly acquired gold by collecting 120-108, 119-109 and 118-110, later on commented, “The plan was to take it to him and I thought I had him finished when he went down but Paul is a good boy. I was beating him to the jab
and if you can do that then the fight is in your hands. He made a fight of it though.”
The current BBBC champion now has 25 wins in his account out of a total 27 and Paul has collected his career’s third lose and the first by unanimous decision.
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