Woolford Faces Stern Test In Nottingham

Welterweight Scott Woolford will face the sternest test of his career when he faces former British Welterweight Champion Young Mutley at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham this coming Friday, the 5th February.

Woolford’s career seemed to go in to free fall following defeat to Matthew Hatton back in September ’08. Prior to that loss the 26 year old from Ramsgate in Kent had only lost once in nine outings. Further losses followed, firstly against Tom Glover when they fought for the vacant Southern Area title in November ‘08 and then in March ’09 when he suffered a disastrous third round stoppage at the hands of Mark Douglas.

Determined to turn his career around Woolford regularly travels to Rooney’s Boxing Gym in South London to spar with house fighters Ben Day, Karol Ozimkowski and Darren Hamilton as well as receiving additional coaching from John Rooney Jnr.

The regular sparring clearly paid dividends as in his very next fight, in September ’09, he scored a resounding victory, when, stopping William Warburton in the fifth round. This was followed by another stoppage victory, over Scott Hayward, two months later.

Following one of his sparring sessions, at Rooney’s Boxing Gym, Woolford spoke briefly on his preparations for the fight and his esteemed opponent.

"Training’s been going well, been getting plenty of quality sparring. Everything’s been going well. Been working hard, training hard,” said Woolford.

“It’s a very good fight for me at the moment. Young Mutley’s been about for a long time, has a lot of experience. He’s a very good fighter. Hopefully I’m going to cause a surprise as I am coming in as the underdog. Yeah, I’m really looking forward to it," added Woolfrod.

Co-feature for this event sees Martin Concepcion against Kevin Hammond for the Midlands Area junior middleweight title,

The packed card also includes, Carl Johanneson against Harry Ramogoadi in a super featherweight bout, also at super featherweight Gary Sykes faces Dean Mills and In his third pro fight middleweight Terry Maughan takes on Craig Tomes.

At light heavyweight Tony Jeffries faces Nathan King, whilst last year’s Prizefighter 7 - The Cruiserweights winner Ovill McKenzie takes on Billy Boyle.

February 1, 2010