Matty’s future is in doubt
Sep 5 2008 By Ian Johnson
WALSALL’S Matty Hough was stopped in the fifth round by Bristol’s talented prospect Danny Butler on Ricky Hatton’s first promotion at the Birmingham Tower Ballroom last night.
The British Masters super middleweight title was at stake and so was Hough’s future in the sport.
He lost his last fight in the third round against Birmingham’s Max Maxwell for the Midlands middleweight title and there must now be a question mark against his future.
Hough couldn’t handle Butler’s vicious right cross and from the first round was never comfortable.
The Walsall scrapper enjoyed a better third round but Butler came storming back to keep going his run of winning every fight.
Another right cross in the fifth sent Hough tumbling to the deck and he took a mandatory count of eight but Butler stepped up the pressure and the referee jumped in after 50 seconds of the round.
Earlier, Birmingham super featherweight Sid Razak was aggrieved at the decision in which he was outpointed against Peter Lee Worthy from Bristol.
But Worthy timed his punches better and was slightly ahead in quality shading it 39-38.
Welsh middleweight Phil Dowse and Scunthorpe’s Dave Jones finished level on 58 each and Birmingham middleweight Terry Adams lost to Welshman Brock Kato retiring with an eye injury.
