Hobson reflects on a great show with mixed results

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Last Friday Oct 12 saw Dennis Hobson stage another cracking FREESPORTS TV card at Sheffield’s Pond’s Forge Arena and the show lived up to expectations and yet again gave the broadcaster stellar view figures.

“I think Loua approached the fight all wrong from the first bell,” reflected Hobson after the show. “He knew he was fighting a southpaw, but he didn’t seem to be taking any instructions in. I was obviously disappointed in the outcome. He showed naivety, it’s obvious he needs more experience, and for me he needs a lot more sparring quality. Loua does have a lot of ability, but he played right into his opponent’s hands. He kept throwing himself in, shortening his shots when he should have used his reach, and from the first bell he was loading up. He kept getting clipped, it softened him up and obviously he got stopped. He threw caution to the wind and committed professional suicide by not using his attributes. I admire Loua a lot but he needs to go back to the drawing board. We’ll sit down with him and his trainer Ryan [Rhodes] and see where we go from here.

“Tommy Frank conducts himself so well as a man, and he takes that maturity into the ring. He left nothing to chance, there were times when he might have stepped up the gas a bit more when he seemed to hurt the kid. But I think we have to give him a nine and a half out of ten, and the half is just because he didn’t get the stoppage, although he was close.

“What’s next for Tommy? There could be a chance of making a fight with the Commonwealth champion Andrew Moloney, we’ll let things develop. We’ve just stepped Tommy up a level, and I think we might want to look at a couple more fights before we go for a Commonwealth Title. But he has put himself in the frame, and at these lower weights you can get catapulted quickly. We could go for the Commonwealth belt, and I think Tommy is capable of upsetting anybody, or we could go in a different direction, get some more experience and start collecting titles. That would be my preferred option, and if the Commonwealth Title happens to be one of them, then so be it. I believe Tommy has all the attributes to get onto the world scene.”

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