Will be defending his European title against Maludrottu (beat Napa a couple of years ago) sometime in November :good
Nice one cheers, hadn't seen anything about him in a while and was worried I missed him fight. Cracking technician IMO but lacks a bit of bite in his punches.. I'll look forward to his fight in November
Anyone know where the fight will be? I heard he wants it in his home town of Leicester but he has had decent crowds where ever he has fought.
fighting November 20th defending his euro title. the guy he is fighting is in the top 10 with 3 belts i think. I reckon he will have to go abraod for his world title fight which should come next year. intresting that his major rival Dunne got a belt, and Martinez who he beat twice is in an IBF featherweight eliminator. Maloney is a good promoter but he can't get world title fights.
Leicester’s unsung Rendall Munroe makes the fifth defence of his European super-bantamweight title against Italy’s seasoned Simone Maludrottu in November, Munroe won the title in a big upset from Spanish puncher Kiko Martinez early last year in Nottingham and has proved a busy champion, so busy in fact that he has also added the Commonwealth title to his resume. The really big fights have eluded him, however, although he did trounce Martinez again, the man who holds an 86-second, two-knockdown stoppage of current WBA super-bantamweight champion Bernard Dunne. In truth, Munroe deserves a ‘world’ title shot. Maludrottu challenged for the WBC bantamweight title against Japan’s tasty Hozumi Hasegawa early last year in Japan and was unanimously outscored by a man who fights out of the southpaw stance like Munroe, which is a good omen (for our man). Maludrottu moved up to super-bantamweight afterwards where he has beaten three nobodies and his best days might have come and gone at bantamweight. The 31-year-old, nicknamed “Boom Boom”, held the European bantamweight title for a number of years and made a whopping eight defences. His victims included Brits Ian Napa and Damaen Kelly (twice). He looked lucky to beat Kelly in their first fight in Belfast - very lucky - but stopped the Irishman in three rounds in a quick rematch in Italy. Kelly called it a day afterwards. Maludrottu can clearly go a bit, then, but Munroe looks to be right at his peak at 29 and does everything well in there. Plus, he moved down from featherweight to lift the EBU belt and is immensely strong at the super-bantamweight limit of 8st 10lbs whereas Maludrottu moved up, of course, and remains pretty well untested at the weight. He will feel the difference in natural weight and strength for sure against the muscled, 5ft 7ins Munroe. Everything considered, the fresher, busier, bigger Munroe gets the job done as usual.
Think it has something to do with there being a lack of suitable venues in Leicester (read that somewhere) which is why he's fought in Nottingham a few times (not too far)