For those who did not know.... coz i didnt untill now. London's Commonwealth super-middleweight champion George Groves will have been aggrieved when his proposed opponent for last Saturday's title defence at York Hall, James Obede Toney, failed a medical. The whole show was cancelled as a result and a valuable TV date missed. But every cloud and all that as he now has a bigger match on his hands in front of a much wider TV audience. Groves (10-0) now faces another unbeaten fighter in Edinburgh's Kenny Anderson (12-0). Fair play to the Scot (pictured right, image courtesy Luke Holt) for taking the fight - presumably he's confident of upsetting the odds as he is also scheduled to face Tony Quigley in a final eliminator for the British title on 26th November. The pair are rumoured to have had a tasty spar together some time ago but it's obviously put neither man off a real encounter. Liverpool's former British super-middleweight champion Tony Dodson (can you believe he's only 30?) is off the bill after tearing a muscle in his forearm. Dodson tweeted phlegmatically, "peeps had some bad news just when everything was going smooth in the gym u have hurt my forearm and have a 2 cm tear in the muscle attached to my elbow there is also blood and fluid around my elbow from it so fight is off sorry guys but hey this is boxing and it happens ........ Just a little bit more to me for some reason." He was scheduled to face unbeaten German Dustin Dirks who stopped Sheffield's Billy Boyle in seven rounds on a card in Rostock last Saturday. Dodson has only had two fights in two years - both unattractive, scrappy losses - to Quigley and current British champion Paul Smith. The Groves-Anderson bout is an excellent addition to an undercard which was initially criticised due to the event being a Sky Box Office show when punters, rightly, expect more from a bill. Also featured on the night is a very interesting British bantamweight title clash between unbeaten Darlington champion Stuart Hall and St Helens-based Gary Davies plus another interesting all-English title fight for little fellas, this time for the Commonwealth flyweight belt between Stoke veteran and champion Chris Edwards and Cheshunt's Ashley Sexton. For the trivia fans out there, if Edwards wins he'll finally be 'in the black' as far as his record goes. The late bloomer is currently 14-14-3.
