ASHINGTON middleweight Ian Turnbull suffered his first pro defeat when he was knocked out in the fifth round at Seaburn’s Pullman Lodge Hotel by Mansfield- based Latvian Alex Spitko.Read
GEORDIE David Pendleton, a former ABA light heavyweight champion, is to spend five weeks in Cuba undergoing intensive top-level training in the hope he can still gatecrash the Beijing Olympics next year.Read
Newcastle's former British featherweight cham- pion John Davison will be guest of honour on foreign soil when North East heavyweights lead the parade at the Stadium of Light on Sunday.Read
Once Steve Harmison was hailed as the best bowler in the world. A speedster of well- grooved action, fearsome bounce, pace and hostility, who got batsmen of genius out on a good surface.Read
High Fell's Ryan French will lead the North East charge in the semi-finals of the Golden Belt national competition at Stoke Mandeville on Saturday.Read
White collar boxing is proving so popular in the North East that the European Boxing Federation are to stage another show at the Stormont Main Social Club in Wrekenton on July 12.Read
Bilton Hall's top senior prospect Sean Moore won the best boxer award at the club's last show of the season at the Temple Park Leisure Centre in South Shields after a terrific win over Marco Marsden.Read
Ross Gardner, the Geordie son of former British and European heavyweight champion John L Gardner, is to make his pro debut only months after being blasted by a gunman on his doorstep in Tynemouth.Read
