{"id":417,"date":"2015-01-28T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:50:07","slug":"martin-aiming-to-gun-down-boylan-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Martin Aiming to \u2018Gun\u2019 Down Boylan This Saturday."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tommy Martin with manager Johnny Eames – Photo Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martin Aiming to \u2018Gun\u2019 Down Boylan This Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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St Neots, Camb\u2019s Tommy \u2018Da Gun\u2019 Martin has the biggest fight of his young career this coming Saturday, when he challenges Carshalton\u2019s Ricky Boylan for the vacant English Super Lightweight title, on the Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Sport promoted CAPITAL PUNISHMENT mega show, at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tommy, who\u2019s just twenty years of age, has already amassed a career record of ten bouts, ten wins and three of those victories came by way of stoppage finishes.<\/p>\n

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Back in April last year, Tommy secured his first Championship win, the British Masters Bronze, with a shutout points victory over Michael Maloney.<\/p>\n

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Whilst young Tommy was busy celebrating his success, he was totally unaware that this victory had bought him to the attention of the UK\u2019s two top promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren.<\/p>\n

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After meeting with both, Tommy decided that the chance to fight on the huge Matchroom Sport shows, whose events are broadcast live on Sky Sports, was his preferred choice.<\/p>\n

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As such his next fight see him travelling to Liverpool to face Ainsley Seivwright on the undercard of the Matchroom Sport promoted Tony Bellew versus Julio Cesar Dos Santos WBO International title fight.<\/p>\n

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With another solid victory under his belt, Eddie Hearn decided to really test his latest signing, by having him face Southampton\u2019s Matty Tew in a ten rounder, needless to say Tommy came through with flying colours, stopping the highly experienced Tew in the seventh round, in doing so earning the right to make his first challenge for a major domestic title.<\/p>\n

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Following one of his final training sessions, a clearly elated Tommy spoke briefly about the upcoming showdown with Ricky Boylan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah I\u2019m over the moon, absolutely over the moon with it.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been training really hard for this for eleven, twelve weeks or so, I literally had a week off after my last fight and got straight back into the gym as soon as I heard the news about getting a shot at the English title.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m taking this opportunity with both hands, it\u2019s what I want, I want to be fighting for titles, that\u2019s why I\u2019m boxing I want to be a Champion, not just any champion, I want to do this the old fashioned route, English, British, European and then go for the big one \u2013 World.<\/p>\n

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Everyone is saying this is as genuine a fifty-fifty fight as they come, not just the fight but also those forecasting the result. A lot of people are saying Boylan and an equal number of people are saying Martin, to my mind it is all going to come down to which Ricky Boylan or which Tommy Martin turns up on the night.<\/p>\n

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I honestly believe my plan A will be better than his plan A and my plan B is better than his plan B.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t see him out-boxing me and I can\u2019t see him out working me, I think I will be too quick and too sharp for him.<\/p>\n

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Winning the British Masters for me was a massive stepping stone, I absolutely loved the moment, it was an excellent stepping stone for titles like this one I have coming up. It gave me my first experience of Championship boxing, which puts me on the front foot on Saturday as I have already fought a title fight.<\/p>\n

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I want to say a huge thank you to close to five hundred fans that are coming down to support me on Saturday night, I really appreciate you getting behind me it means everything to me and hopefully I\u2019ll give you a really good show and if all goes to plan I\u2019ll have the English belt round my waist at the end of the night.<\/p>\n

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I promise I\u2019m not going to make it easy for him, hopefully I\u2019ll give him real problems on the night\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tommy\u2019s manager, the esteemed Champions TKO supremo Johnny Eames then spoke about his young charge and his upcoming showdown with ex TKO fighter Ricky Boylan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is Tommy\u2019s biggest fight to date, what\u2019s more it\u2019s against an ex-TKO fighter, Ricky Boylan.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a genuine 50\/50 fight, you can toss a coin to see who is going to win this one, it really is that close.<\/p>\n

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Obviously I lean towards Tommy, or else I wouldn\u2019t have taken the fight on, but it ain\u2019t going to be a push over.<\/p>\n

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Ricky comes to fight, he prepares himself well and he\u2019s trained by my old mate Jamie Moore, with the Manchester boys, so we know he\u2019s going to be well prepared.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m really looking forward to the fight, it\u2019ll be a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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