British Scene Season Preview Part Two: Thaxton vs Murray,

The Boxing Bulletin Dave Oakes24th August, 2009

Dave Oakes is back with the second half of The Boxing Bulletin's preview of the upcoming British boxing season.

In today's preview:

Jon Thaxton vs John Murray - British lightweight title

Thaxton vs Murray

If you thought September looked pretty good then October is shaping up to be even better. The two best lightweights in Britain do battle on the first Saturday of the month, with Jon Thaxton and John Murray squaring off for the vacant British title.

The undefeated Murray lost the title on the scales last time out but followed it up with a solid performance against the always competitive Scott Lawton, whom he stopped in the sixth round after dishing out a vicious beating.

This fight is make or break time for Thaxton, he's lost three of his last four and is starting to look like a fighter on the slide. The most surprising of those defeats came in his last fight when he was out-pointed by the game but limited Tom Glover up at light-welterweight. Thaxton believes that the extra weight was the reason behind his loss to Glover, but having spent half of his career fighting at that weight, I find it hard to believe that it would make such a huge amount of difference against someone as limited as Glover.

Thaxton should provide Murray with the hardest fight of his career but I expect the young Mancunian to have too much hunger, stamina and aggression for Thaxton to cope with.

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