Dave Oakes recaps the under-card from this past Friday's Echo Arena show in Liverpool.  Dave's recap of the main-event: Scrappy Smith Retains Title

Kell Brook produced a punch perfect performance to stop Poland’s Krzysztof Bienias in the sixth round of a one-sided contest. Bienias was very negative throughout and didn’t make any attempt to win the fight.

Brook soon found the Pole’s chin, landing snappy jabs and quick straight rights in the opening session. Bienias held his hands high and looked content to see the opening round out without throwing a punch.

The second round was similar to the first; Brook was jabbing well to head and body, the body jabs in particular being very impressive and well thought out against an opponent with such a high guard. The negative Bienias threw no more than five punches in the round and looked scared to death of Brook.

Brook turned southpaw at the start of the third and caught Bienias flush with a right jab - straight left combination. Brook continued to switch stances during the round, landing every shot in the book on a bewildered Bienias, who was throwing a few more punches than he had done up to that point but was still fighting in a shell and was looking like an already beaten fighter.

The Yorkshireman slowed the pace down in the fourth and fifth rounds but was still dominating the tame Bienias. Brook never looks like he’s rushing his work and seems to look as comfortable fighting at a slower pace as he does when he’s going for the early knockout.

The end came in the sixth; Brook hadn’t done much in the round up until he landed a solid right uppercut that hurt Bienias, he followed up with a flurry of punches, the best of which was a left uppercut that sent the Pole’s head jolting back and prompted the referee to intervene. Bienias wasn’t badly hurt but the fight was dreadfully one-sided and the referee was correct to stop it.

Tony Bellew won the first title of his short career after obliterating the woefully inept Atoli Moore inside a round to claim the vacant Commonwealth light-heavyweight title.

Bellew looked as happy as a kid in a sweetshop as he was joined in his ring walk by his boyhood hero, and former world champion, John Conteh. It was a nice touch by Conteh, a Scouse light-heavyweight legend giving his support to the up-and-coming Scouse light-heavyweight.

Moore’s record going into the fight was claimed to be 10-0 (6KO’s), if that record’s true, I’d hate to watch the boxers he’s beaten. He looked like a novice as he swung wild looping punches that were miles off their intended target.

Bellew wasn’t in any mood to hang around and drilled the Ghanaian repeatedly with hefty looking straight rights, one of which had Moore stumbling forward onto his knees, the referee didn’t rule it as a knockdown but in my opinion it was Bellew’s right hand that had caused him to go down rather than the slip / loss of balance the referee ruled.

The knockdown not being scored didn’t matter as Moore was stopped seconds later. Bellew hammered Moore with two vicious straight rights that had him on unsteady legs, the referee jumped in just as Bellew was unleashing a right uppercut.

Bellew let out a huge scream of delight at the stoppage, visibly enjoying winning his first title in front of his hometown fans. He takes his record to 13-0 (9KO’s) but needs to step up the level of opposition soon as he doesn’t learn anything with one round blowouts against the likes of Moore.

Former world champion Enzo Maccarinelli bludgeoned Zoltan Czekus to the canvas twice on his way to a one round stoppage win. Czekus never got into the fight and looked in trouble every time Maccarinelli landed a shot, it was the body shots that did the most damage with the Welshman clubbing away at his ribs.

Stephen Smith destroyed Jason Thomas in the first round, he landed a picture perfect left hook – straight right combination that sent Thomas down heavily, and despite Thomas bravely getting to his feet, he was stopped seconds later.

Hot prospect Ronnie Heffron had far too much for old trial horse Karl Taylor, he out-boxed him with ease for two rounds and forced the veteran journeyman to retire at the end of the second session.

Other Results: Liam Smith beat Billy Smith on points over four rounds, John Thain beat Kevin McCauley on points, Joe Selkirk stopped Manoocha Salari in the first round and the fights between Tom Costello and Lee Noble and Tobias Webb and Lee Duncan were draws.

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