The highly anticipated main event bout between Ryan Pocock (5-1) and Ethan George (5-1), has been postponed due to the man from Newport suffering a perforated eardrum in a sparring session, ruling him out of action for the vacant Welsh Area Title. The fight was scheduled to take place on March 2nd at the Vale Sports Arena, Cardiff.
After beating Allan White last time out in November last year, 34-year-old Pocock was set to return to the Vale Sports Arena for his seventh fight of his professional career where he would aim to claim his first professional title, Pocock said: “To be fair I’m absolutely devastated.
“It’s been a rough few days but I’m getting back to training and staying positive is the only option,” he added.
When talking on the injury to his ear, which occurred during a sparring session, Pocock stated: “It was in sparring, head guards on, big gloves, it wasn’t a powerful punch.
“It was just wrong place at the wrong time I guess, a complete freak accident.
“It’s the best camp that I’ve made weight and probably the most rounds of sparring I’ve ever done.
“Was it my best camp, I’m not sure, I’ve never really had a bad one if I’m being honest,” he added.
Ethan George via a Instagram post, said: “I’m still fighting next weekend, but not against Ryan and not for the belt.”
This was later confirmed by Sanigar Events who stated: “The rest of the show will go ahead as planned, with Ethan George still appearing on the show against a different opponent.
“We are hoping to get Pocock vs George rescheduled for the Summer,” they insisted.
The orthodox fighter George, has an identical record to his original opponent for March 2nd, Ryan Pocock.
His only loss on his professional record came at the hands of Bahadur Karami at the Market Hall in Abergavenny.
Quickly following his first professional loss the man from Llanelli recovered by stopping Alex Branson-Cole in the second round at the York Hall, London.
When talking about a potential new date for the title fight between the two, Pocock said: “I will be back training by Monday, I just wont be able to spar for around six weeks.
“I’ll just keep myself fit and ready to start my next camp.
“Yes we have already got a new date and agreed to fight on that date.
“I can’t confirm the date yet but it’s not very far away, but yes it will be for the Welsh title,” he insisted.
When the fight happens one of the two will join the history books as there has only been two other Super-Middleweight Welsh champions prior. These were, Darron Griffiths (Pontypridd) and Tobias Webb (Swansea).
Words By Harry Tovey
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