Carlisle Villa ABC had a boxer in every contest of their 15-bout card as they held their annual open show at the Crown and Mitre Hotel.

There were three non-scoring skills and development bouts, contested by Ella Davidson, Jack Lindsay and Leighton Nimmo.

That meant there were 12 scoring bouts, which included five schoolboy bouts, two junior bouts, one youth bout and four senior bouts.

Before the show got under way, the sell-out crowd observed a minute’s silence.

Schoolboy boxer Marc Haughan, 14, in his first season at Carlisle Villa, continued an impressive start to his boxing career with a stoppage win against Harris Mahmood from Blackburn with Darwen ABC.

Cain Quinn, who has just moved to the area from Nottingham, represented Villa for the first time against Galashiels Boxing Club’s Jack Swaney.

Swaney was a good six inches taller than Cain but 17-year-old Cain never allowed him to use that reach advantage.

In round three, the referee was having trouble separating the pair but as Swaney wasn’t attacking with any purpose, the decision was in no doubt there was no need to issue any warning with Cain winning the bout by unanimous decision.

Villa’s Paul Johnston was matched against Mustapha Tasheen from Roche ABC, Burnley, in the penultimate bout, which turned out to be one of the contests of the night.

Tasheen came out really quickly and was catching Johnston with some sharp counter shots. Johnston was taking a lot of punishment and was not far off receiving a standing eight count as the bell rang out to end the first round with Tasheen way ahead.

Tasheen started the second as he finished the first with good head and body movement but wasn’t throwing as many shots.

Johnston took advantage and followed up with a three-punch combination which forced Tasheen to hold on.

A nice slip and counter from Tasheen let Johnston know he wasn’t finished.

But the Villa man was now in control and won the bout by virtue of a split decision.

Then, the bout of the evening saw two previously unbeaten boxers come together in a junior contest which consisted of three two-minute rounds as Carlisle Villa’s Lewis Shield-Cromar stood toe-to-toe with Alex MacMillan from Coastal ABC in Morecambe.

The crowd were on their feet from the first bell until the last bell with the bout swaying one way and then the other.

But it was Lewis who got the nod on all three judges’ scorecards.