Daniel hooks his way to quick fire victory

Davien Daniel takes the applause at the end of his emphatic win

BIRMINGHAM welter Davien Daniel riddled Charlie Sheldon with hooks and long rights at machine gun speed until the Suffolk fighter came apart in the second of their scheduled four rounder.

The win added to an excellent night’s work for Eastside gym at the Excelsior Sporting Club yesterday (Thursday).

They took two fighters – Daniel and Nyall Berry - to Cannock’s Premier Suite and came away with a brace of second round successes.

It’s been seven months since 20-year Daniel, tall and long limbed, made his paid debut. Yet, opening the night’s boxing card, he showed no signs of ring rust, hunting down Sheldon from the first bell.

I liked the way the Brummie prised Sheldon open with jabs and steadily cranked up the pressure. By the embers of the first, 28-year-old Charlie was being walloped at long range and also fielding hooks.

Let’s be honest. With a record now standing at 14 losses in 15 outings (one draw), Sheldon didn’t represent the stiffer test, yet he was game in the face of a storm of leather.

And men such as the Bury St Edmunds boxer can make things messy. Daniel never gave him that opportunity.

A wicked right hook from Daniel (10st 13lbs 2oz) sent him through the ropes in the second. Sheldon showed courage above and beyond the call off duty to clamber back in the ring at eight and protest his willingness to continue.

I felt referee Ryan Churchill could’ve stopped it then and there. Instead, Daniel, firing hooks from both hands, drove his opponent across two sides of the ring with volleys of hooks. With Sheldon (11st 1lb 1oz) pinned against the ropes and sagging, Mr Churchill called a halt at two minutes 35 seconds of the session.

The conclusive defeat is only the second on Sheldon’s CV.