"Red Hot Night In Manchester" on June 21

By Spud Woollatt

16.06 - British Eastside has a further update in what looks like on paper an extremely exciting night of boxing in Manchester on Saturday 21st 2003. A show which includes 5 world championship bouts.

Matchroom Sports have now added one of their most exciting World Prospects, Light Middleweight Richard Williams, to their "Red Hot Night In Manchester" Show. Richard will be fighting Sergio Martinez (born in Argentina, now living in Spain). This fight will be for Richard's IBO World Light Middleweight belt.

In addition to the Williams/Martinez fight, the show will also include Michael Brodie fighting for the vacant World IBO Featherweight belt, James Hare in an exciting clash with Roman Dzuman, and Brian Magee fighting South African Andre Thysse in a very good value for money 12 fight card.

The show itself will be shown on SKY TV (Pay per View), it will be the support to the Lennox Lewis clash against Vitali Klitschko. The Matchroom show has been made extremely affordable to all fans with many tickets only being sold for £20. The other tickets being sold are £30 , £50 and finally £100 for ringside seats. The Hotline for tickets is 0870 190 8000.

Full Details of the show are as follows:

Saturday 21 June 2003
Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester

Ticket Prices: £20, £30, £50 & £100 Ringside
Box Office: 0870 190 8000
Doors Open: 5:00pm
Boxing Commences: 5:30pm

Vacant IBO Featherweight Championship of the World
MICHAEL BRODIE (Manchester) vs JUAN CABRERA (Argentina)

IBO Light-Middleweight Championship of the World
RICHARD WILLIAMS (Stockwell) vs SERGIO MARTINEZ (Spain)

Vacant WBF Welterweight Championship of the World
JAMES HARE (Huddersfield) vs ROMAN DZHUMAN (Ukraine)

IBO Super-Middleweight Championship of the World
BRIAN MAGEE (Belfast) vs ANDRE THYSSE (South Africa)

WBF Light-Middleweight Championship of the World
MIHAI KOTAI (Hungary) vs AHMED OLIGOV (Russia)

Plus full supporting undercard including:

4/6 x 3 mins Lightweight Contest
KEVIN BENNETT (Hartlepool) vs ANTHONY MAYNARD (Birmingham)

4/6 x 3 mins Welterweight Contest
KEVIN ANDERSON (Buckhaven) vs TBA

4 x 3 mins Light-Welterweight Contest
BARRY MORRISON (Motherwell) vs CHRISTIAN HODOROGEA (Romania)

4/6 x 3 mins Super-Middleweight Contest
ALAN PAGE (Manchester) vs MARCIN RADOLA (Hungary)

4/6 x 3 mins Middleweight Contest
WAYNE PINDER (Manchester) vs HOWARD CLARKE (Birmingham)

4 x 3 mins Super-Featherweight Contest
DARRYN WALTON (Sale) vs MATTHEW BURKE (Stratford)

4 x 3 mins Heavyweight Contest
DANNY VENTOR (South Africa) vs DEREK McCAFFERTY (Kettering)

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