Carlisle Villa ABC continue to keep their boxers busy, having attended three shows at short notice.

A long trip to Nantwich was followed by trips to Liverpool and Burnley with all the Villa fighters doing well last week.

On less than 24 hours’ notice, Marc Haughan and Evan Ford were hoping to continue their winning runs after two impressive performances at the Carlisle Villa home show the Saturday before, as they took part on the Merseyside and Cheshire ABA annual dinner show at Nantwich Civic Hall on Tuesday.

Villa lad Ford was matched against Charlie Bannon, of Kirkdale ABC, in a junior contest.

Ford dominated the first two rounds and, with Bannon resigned to defeat in round three, the judges were left with no choice but to award the bout to Ford by an unanimous decision.

Haughan was also against a Kirkdale ABC fighter, Joel Smith, as he looked to make it three wins in three in his schoolboy contest.

A power backhand landed to the head of Smith towards the end of the bout earned Haughan the win, again by an unanimous decision.

Then, on the Wednesday, 10-year-old Ella Davidson, 12-year-old Orlando Quinn and Jack Sharpe, 11, competed on the Kirby ABC annual show.

Davidson and Quinn both took part in well-contested skills contest against Maisey Lever and Jimmy Kelly.

Sharpe, meanwhile, took on Sam Carney in a schoolboy contest. But Sharpe never really got going until the final round, losing by an unanimous decision.

On the Friday, Villa senior boxers Chris White and Paul Johnston were joined by 10-year-old Leighton Nimmo on the Roche ABC open show.

Nimmo once again showed great slipping and counter skills in a non-scoring contest against the much taller home fighter James Tansey.

White took on Zurat Sharqat who, spurred on by a vocal home crowd, took the bout to White but it was Carlisle’s White who won the contest by an unanimous decision.

The final bout of the evening was a rematch from the Villa’s home show, with local favourite Muhammad Tahseen hoping to avenge a close split-decision defeat to Johnston.

Roared on by the home support, Tahseen came out all guns blazing, throwing punches from all angles to take the first round.

Johnston held the centre of the ring in the second round and had some success with his two and three punch counter punching and, once again, Tahseen started to tire. 

The crowd tried to help Tahseen but the third round came to an end as Johnston claimed the win.