Martin Murray who was having his first fight under the Golden Gloves Promotions banner failed to impress as he made hard work of scoring a seventh round stoppage win over Ishmael Tetteh in a bout fought a super middleweight at Emperors Palace near Kempton Park on Wednesday night.

The highly rated Englishman made a slow start through the first three rounds holding his gloves high and fighting from behind a tight defence as he won every round against the Ghanaian who was not expected to test him. Murray (74,38kg) fighting at a pedestrian pace throughout against the rather clumsy moving Tetteh (75, 38kg) left the spectators waiting for him to open up which he never did.

Tetteh complained of a head butt in round five after going down on one knee in an earlier exchange which was not ruled as a knockdown by referee Thabo Spampool. It came as a surprise when Tetteh decided not come out at the bell for the seventh round as he did not appear to be in any trouble. The world rated Murray improves his record to 21-1-1; 12 and Tetteh drops to 29-11-2; 16.

In the main supporting bout junior welterweight Paul Kamanga (63,45kg) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo had to come back from a rocky fifth round before stopping southpaw Adam de Moor (63.45kg) at 2:36 into seventh round. Kamanga improves his record to 11-0; 8 and De Moor drops to 10-2; 7.

In a junior welterweight bout Grant Fourie (63,05kg) stopped Luyanda Jaku (63,30kg) at 2:14 of the fourth round.

Heavyweight Martin Makabu (107,05kg) stopped Chris Mabombo (91,40kg) at 1;04 into the second round.

Junior welterweight Boitshepo Mandawe (62,65kg) won on a fifth round technical knockout over Herbert Nkabiti (63,45kg). Time 1:05.

In the opening bout of the evening super middleweights Vhonani Netshitamboni (74,95kg) and Page Tshesane (75,40kg) fought to a six round draw