Nascimento feels Tyson's Fury in the fifth; more Wembley undercard action

Tyson Fury managed to put a troubled couple of weeks for his family out of mind when the 22-year-old English heavyweight champion stopped Brazilian import Marcelo Luiz Nascimento in the fifth of a scheduled ten-rounder at Wembley Arena on Saturday night.

Tyson, whose father and former pro “Gypsy” John Fury was recently jailed for eleven years for gouging out a man’s eye in a brawl at a car auction, capitalised on a massive 26lbs weight advantage to box well before clinically finishing his unbeaten opponent.

Nascimento did well to overcome a first round knockdown but simply didn’t have the technical ability to trouble the unbeaten Mancunican. As soon as Tyson began to use his boxing skills, Nascimento’s only answer was to throw massive right hand speculators which Fury could see coming easily.

Throughout the fight, Tyson shortened his punches well and worked calmly off the jab. He set up the finish well by connecting with three straight jab-right hand combinations before a huge right hand to the temple flattened the Brazilian and required the swift assistance of the ringside medical team.

Post-fight, Fury called out reigning British king Derek Chisora. “Del Boy” obviously has his priorities set on Wlad Klitschko and with Tyson sill only 22, what is the point of rushing him into the big fights?

Cousin Phill Fury also got a win on the card in besting William Warburton after a nasty injury forced the contest to the cards during the third round of a light-middleweight affair. Fury, nicknamed “Intense”, is fairly quick and enjoys showboating. He was clearly winning thee fight but at no point did he seem like stopping Warbuton. When a bloody bump over the right eye forced the fight to go to the scorecard, referee Victor Loughlin had tallied the bout 20-18 in Phil’s favour.

Tyler Goodjohn made it three wins on the spin as he shut out Tamworth’s Matt Seawright in a four-threes at light-middle. Seawright, 3-39-2 (0) going in, appeared to be shaken slightly in the second and was punished throughout the contest as his shots were far too wide. Goodjohn, trained by Tony Sims, was able to get away with being open but needed to fight hard to overcome a spirited effort from Seawright. In the last, Matt looked at risk of being stopped but gritted his teeth well through to the close.

Journeyman Jason Nesbitt was slightly unlucky in my book to lose to Chris Evangelou by 39-37 on the scored card of Howard Foster. It is scheduled for four-rounds at light welter. Nesbitt was credited with a flash knockdown in the first after a right hand appeared to catch him off balance. The Brummie centurion was massively up for it from then on and really pushed the unbeaten but relatively untested Evangelou hard throughout the contest. In the last round, the ropes appeared to keep Nesbitt up as Chris was back in the fighting zone. Evangelou moves to 6-0 (1) and has yet to really create a buzz around his potential.

Finally, brother Andreas Evangelou made a successful debut as he was given a solid four-round test by Scunthorpe’s winless Jody Meikle at light-heavy. It was scored 40-37 and was closely-contested and entertaining.