Knockout super-featherweight win for Great Yarmouth boxer

Mikie Webber-Kane shows off his super-featherweight belt with trainers Tony Norman (left), Graham Everett (centre-right) and Joe Everett (right)

A young boxer says he is putting his home town on the map after taking the Southern Area super-featherweight title.

Mikie Webber-Kane, from Great Yarmouth, beat Robert Caswell in a knockout final at York Hall on Saturday.

The 25-year-old knocked his opponent down four times - before securing a sixth round stoppage.

Webber-Kane said he was happy to have joined an "elite squad" of champions, trained by Graham Everett in Norwich.

"It's amazing, I've worked really hard," he said.

"From the start with Tony Norman, who first put gloves on me at 15, I've been down Graham's gym since 18 - we always knew if I was gonna turn pro it would be with Graham Everett.

"Look at the people who go through his doors - Sam Sexton, Jon Thaxton, the Walsh brothers.

"There's loads of champions in that gym and I'm now part of that elite squad."

"The birthplace of champions": Webber-Kane follows in the footsteps of winners trained by Everett

The boxer was in control from the start against the previously unbeaten Caswell, knocking him down in each of the opening two rounds.

A huge left-handed shot in the sixth round saw Caswell on the canvas again and he never recovered - much to the delight of Webber-Kane supporters.

"Putting little Yarmouth back on the map doesn't make me feel anything other than happy," he said.

"I wanted to start fast, catch him cold and that's what we did - I've been known to be a slow starter but sparring with Ryan Walsh, I have to start fast or I'll get my head pinged off.

"I knew that would be the same if I started slow against Caswell.

"I might be super-feather, I might only have two stoppages on my record and people don't think I'm a puncher - but I proved I'm a puncher today."

Webber-Kane moments before he lit up York Hall in London

Graham Everett is no stranger to success in the Southern Area battlefield.

"That's five or six Southern Area champions I've been involved with now - and this is as nice as the last one, it's something to be proud of," he said.

"Allegedly it was a 50/50 fight but the promoter put us in the away corner, so maybe the promoter fancied Caswell a little more than us - that gave us an extra little needle.

"Mikie's tough, punches a lot harder than people realise, he showed he's heavy handed as well as a good clever boxer - he really came of age tonight."

Everett said the team would now to look to defending the title or moving on to the national championships.

"He's a genuinely nice lad, he's stingy in the ring and a nice guy out of it - that's what he's got to be", he said.

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