Fight Night February 2020: Meet the fighters

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Fight Night is back this week so we think it’s time to meet the fighters

We asked the fighters about their go to club night, favourite famous boxers and how they think their all important fight will go.

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Asad Iqbal

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Sports Management

Weight – 70KG

Go to Newcastle night out – House of Smith

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I would like it to go all three rounds because we trained hard for the fight but in my opinion I wanna put him away in the second”

Andreas Campbell

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Computer Science

Weight – 82KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Market Shaker then Digi

Favourite famous boxer – Mike Tyson

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I see it ending with a second round TKO based off what I’ve heard”

Sam Dilley

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Weight – 68KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Soho

Favourite famous boxer – Vasyl Lomachenko

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “He won’t make it to the third round”

Lauren O’Shaughnessy

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Chinese

Weight – 57KG

Go to Newcastle night out – The standard, Market Shaker and Soho

Favourite famous boxer – Wladimir Klitschko

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I reckon it’ll go all the way”

Jessica Fleet

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Psychology

Weight – 57.3KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Swingers

Favourite famous boxer – Mike Tyson

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Not if I can help it”

Harry Sowerby

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Marine Engineering

Weight – 78Kg

Go to Newcastle night out – Market Shaker

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “No way”

Liam Ryan

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Maths with finance

Weight – 80KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Sinners, Soho or Market Shaker

Favourite famous boxer – Vasyl Lomschenko

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I don’t think it’ll go the full three rounds”

Zack Woolgar

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Physiotherapy

Weight – 80KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Block Party or Oops

Favourite famous boxer – Floyd Mayweather

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I’d say finished in the third”

Harry Holder

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Law

Weight – 70KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Swingers

Favourite famous boxer – Logan Paul

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “It’s either getting stopped in the third or going to points”

Ellie Howe

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Archaeology

Weight – 56KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Swingers or World HQ

Favourite famous boxer – Rocky Marciano

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I know I will make two rounds, not sure about three”

Meg Ellison

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Food and Human Nutrition

Weight – 64KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Shaker then Greys or Flares

Favourite famous boxer – Bernard Hopkins

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Yes”

Dominic Morgan

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Uni – Northumbria

Course – Business with Management

Weight – 76KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Greys Club

Favourite famous boxer – Mike Tyson

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Not three rounds”

Alex Tait

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Politics

Weight – 78KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Dr Beat @ MSA

Favourite famous boxer – Canelo Alvarez

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I don’t see it lasting three rounds, him on the canvas in the second”

Dan Fincham

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Psychology

Weight – 93KG

Go to Newcastle night out – SK Friday at House of Smith

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Yes”

Megan Genty

Uni – Newcastle

Course – English Lit and Classics

Weight – 50KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Down for whatever just love a boogie

Favourite famous boxer – Nicola Adams

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I think it will be a really challenging fight and would be good to see it last all three rounds”

Fran Bridge

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Psychology

Weight – 64KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Sports night at Koos or Oops

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “I can definitely see it lasting three rounds but we will have to wait and see about her”

Fin Farrier

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Environmental Science

Weight – 73KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Oops

Favourite famous boxer – Vasyl Lomachenko

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Yes I see myself lasting the whole three rounds”

Finley McInerney

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Sports Management

Weight – 90KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Dirtiz @ Perdu

Favourite famous boxer – Mike Tyson

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “No I don’t see it lasting three rounds”

Harry Mann

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Mechanical Engineering

Weight – 68KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Anywhere as long as it ends in the casino

Favourite famous boxer – Muhammed Ali

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Yeah will last three rounds it’s going to be a close fight”

Katherine Edwards

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Pharmacy

Weight – 64KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Oops all the way

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury after his amazing win the other day

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Anything can happen on the night”

Nathan Marshall

Uni – Northumbria

Course – Mechanical Engineering

Weight – 87KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Sunday funday at The Cut

Favourite famous boxer – Tony Bellew

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Don’t know much about my opponent but I’m confident I can get the job done in the first two”

Louis Desmet

Uni – Newcastle

Course – Earth Sciences

Weight – 88KG

Go to Newcastle night out – Bierkeller

Favourite famous boxer – Tyson Fury

Do you see it lasting all three rounds? – “Hoping it lasts three rounds but we’ll just have to see”

Hugh Hollins

Ella Morrison

Louwe Labonete

Tori French

Hector Teasdale

Archie Kirk

Georgia McMillan

Phil Merinu

Henry Gill

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