(FEB 29) Last night
at the Civic Hall, in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, in the
large modern hall in the centre of this industrial town, local
promoters P.J. Rowson and Errol Johnson staged an 8 bout
Championship Tournament before a well behaved, but enthusiastic
audience of 800 patrons.
In the second bout
of the evening, there was a special female International
featherweight rematch scheduled for six rounds, between
Wolverhampton’ Lyndsey Scragg, 128¾, a 28 year old firefighter, and
Yarkor Chavez Annan, 128, a 25 year old hairdresser from Accra,
Ghana.
When they last fought in a four round bout, at the Town Hall, in
Dudley, England, on 28th June 2007, Scragg won on points.
This was an attractive contest of lively movement with both girls
throwing good punches at times. Nearing the end of the first round,
Scragg knocked Annan down for a count of eight. However she was
unable to repeat this. The fight settled into a series of powerful
exchanges with Scragg being the aggressor and dominating the play.
A neat purposeful fighter she clearly had mastery of her opponent –
a fact which culminated in the closing seconds [1:25] of the final
round when the referee stopped the fight in her favour - ruling
that Annan was no longer able to defend herself. Scragg moved to
4-0-0 (3K0), and Annan drops to 7-4-1 (3KO). ©Copyright John
E.G.Wilson
