I was delighted to see young Pavels Senkovs get off the mark at Bristol last week.

And he did it in impressive style, stopping Bristol's Pete Leworthy in the first round. It had been scheduled for six.

The Latvian came in for some unnecessary, harsh criticism when he was thrown in for his debut fight in front of the tv cameras earlier this year.

He lost his first four fights on points. But, with little or no amateur experience, he is on a steep learning curve.

This looked another big ask for Senkovs, who is trained in Mansfield by Matt Scriven, as Leworthy was unbeaten in four contests.

But he flattened Leworthy with a right to the jaw. He beat the count but the referee rightly waved it off.

But there was disappointment for Scriven when he lost again, 40-34 to local favourite Danny Butler on the same bill.

*Strelley's Jason Booth has been ordered to defend his British super-bantamweight title against Michael Hunter.

Booth has a voluntary defence against Rocky Dean at the York Hall on June 30 to get out of the way first.

*Hard-hitting Gary Davies puts his British bantamweight title on the line for the first time, when he faces Ian Napa (18-7) at Leigh Indoor Sports Centre on Friday July 24.

St Helens Davies (9-2-1) has emerged in recent months and showed impressive power overcoming Welshman Matthew Edmonds to become Britain's 118lb king in April.

Napa, 31, is in the last chance saloon having lost the European title to Malik Bouziane three months ago.

Maloney hopes to the winner will get the next shot at Bouziane.

Tickets for the show are available at £90 and £45 from all fighters, 0871 226 1508 and www.frankmaloney.com. Buy from the website and you will receive a discount.

*Tickets are now on sale for Amir Khan's re-arranged world title clash against Andreas Kotelnik at the M.E.N Arena on Saturday July 18.

The undercard features Matthew Hall v Anthony Small and Enzo Maccarinelli v Denis Lebedev.

Kell Brook, Kevin Mitchell, Paul Smith, Denton Vassell, James DeGale, Frankie Gavin and Billy Joe Saunders have also been penciled in.

Tickets are £40, £50, £75, £100, £150, £200, £300 and £500.