Both boxers will be going into the show on the back of championship defeats. Cope Jnr lost his Northern Area lightweight crown in a shock points loss to Middlesbrough's John Green at the Summer Rumble in July. Hardy, meanwhile, emerged with great…
THROUGHOUT the latter half of the 1990s and the whole of the 2000s, North-East boxing was stuck in a rut. Memories of Glenn McCrory and Billy Hardy were fading fast, and while Hartlepool's Michael Hunter briefly flourished as he claimed European and …