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Tonight in Mancheser UK, Terry Flanagan defends the WBO Lightweight title that he's held since 2015. Him being a boxer from Manchester (and me living there), I'm going along to the fight but it doesn't seem to have got the attention from the public and the media that it deserves, and while the arena will be almost full, it certainly won't be a sell out and that's a shame.
For anyone who doesn't know who Terry Flanagan is, he has the longest unbeaten record in British boxing with a record of 32-0 and 13 KO's. Along the way he has fought pretty much whoever wanted to step in the ring with him and originally won the title by beating Jose Zepeda, an American fighter that was billed as the next big thing until Flanagan retired him on his stool after only 2 rounds. Since then he has defended his title against world class fighters such as Diego Magdaleno, Derry Mathews, Mzonke Fana and the one that was most impressive, destroying Orlando Cruz at the end of last year. Tonight he faces another world class fighter in Petr Petrov and if he wins, will have defended his title 6 times overall, which in itself is something of an achievement.
Terry Flanagan comes from a poor, working class background being brought up in the suburbs of Manchester, about a 5 minute walk from where I myself live, and as well as being a top class fighter, he is an ambassador for boxing and a local hero to the next generation. He's shown others that with dedication and ambition, it doesn't matter where you come from, we can all fulfill our dreams if we put our minds and bodies to it.
That alone in my opinion makes him a fighter that people should get behind as these days, and especially in the fight game, there aren't that many role models anymore and win, lose or draw tonight, Terry 'Turbo' Flanagan deserves to be recognised for who he is and what he's done for boxing in the UK and in particular Manchester itself.
For anyone who doesn't know who Terry Flanagan is, he has the longest unbeaten record in British boxing with a record of 32-0 and 13 KO's. Along the way he has fought pretty much whoever wanted to step in the ring with him and originally won the title by beating Jose Zepeda, an American fighter that was billed as the next big thing until Flanagan retired him on his stool after only 2 rounds. Since then he has defended his title against world class fighters such as Diego Magdaleno, Derry Mathews, Mzonke Fana and the one that was most impressive, destroying Orlando Cruz at the end of last year. Tonight he faces another world class fighter in Petr Petrov and if he wins, will have defended his title 6 times overall, which in itself is something of an achievement.
Terry Flanagan comes from a poor, working class background being brought up in the suburbs of Manchester, about a 5 minute walk from where I myself live, and as well as being a top class fighter, he is an ambassador for boxing and a local hero to the next generation. He's shown others that with dedication and ambition, it doesn't matter where you come from, we can all fulfill our dreams if we put our minds and bodies to it.
That alone in my opinion makes him a fighter that people should get behind as these days, and especially in the fight game, there aren't that many role models anymore and win, lose or draw tonight, Terry 'Turbo' Flanagan deserves to be recognised for who he is and what he's done for boxing in the UK and in particular Manchester itself.