John Hedges vs Pat Brown: Live blog, round-by-round and results
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John Hedges and Pat Brown will collide for the vacant British and Commonwealth cruiserweight titles today in Manchester, England.
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Bad Left Hook will be here with live, fight-by-fight results and updates, plus round-by-round scoring and commentary for the main event here in the post. And we’ll have a live chat running all through the card down in the comments section.
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Hedges vs Brown live blog and results
We’ll have round-by-round for the main event fight, and results and updates for the undercard.
Corey O’Regan def. Joe Howarth by Unanimous Decision
- OFFICIAL SCORES: 98-92, 98-92, and 99-91, all for Corey O’Regan
- Good scoring. I thought the most you could have shaded to Howarth was three rounds, so the judges giving him two or one round seems right. O’Regan just came here and won, nothing more to it. He was the better man.
- By rights, that should be a win for Corey O’Regan, and a good one for him, should net him the English title.
- O’Regan may have this one in the bag barring disaster in the 10th and final round. He’s had to scrape through the second half a bit more but Howarth just has not had any sustained success.
- Six rounds in. O’Regan started better and has probably taken the rounds so far, but he’s looking a bit ragged in the sixth. Has to be noted he came in on short notice and that may be showing in the second half.
- Ring walks going, first fight of the main card is set to begin. We’ll let you know anything notable happening for this fight and the rest of the undercard as the bouts go on, but there will be faster updates and a live chat for these undercard fights down in the comments section, join us!
How to watch Hedges vs Brown
Start time: 2:00 pm ET
Streaming: DAZN (subscription required)
Location: Co-op Live, Manchester, England, UK
Hedges vs Brown running order and lineup
Main Event
- John Hedges vs Pat Brown, cruiserweights, 12 rounds, for vacant British and Commonwealth titles
- Preview: The 26-year-old Brown (6-0, 6 KO) has more hype behind him, not that it’s staggering hype or anything. The 6’3” Manchester-born fighter does look to have the higher ceiling, but you have to fight fights like this to find out what’s real and what’s just been the eye test so far. Coming off of a dominant TKO win over veteran Vasil Ducar in April. 24-year-old Hedges (12-0, 3 KO) doesn’t have Brown’s power, which looks the big separator, but he’s also a 6’6” southpaw who has similarly done well for himself, and beaten some familiar names on the domestic scene in his last two, wins over Nathan Quarless and Ellis Zorro.
- Shabaz Masoud vs Ckari Cani Mansilla, featherweights, 10 rounds
- Preview: Masoud (15-0, 4 KO) is moving up to featherweight here, having already won the European title at 122 lbs, as well as the IBO belt if you care about that. More important than those belts, his wins over Liam Davies and Peter McGrail were genuinely solid wins, and the 30-year-old “Maverick” takes aim at a new division. The world titles at 126 aren’t going to be easy to win, either, but in theory maybe a bit easier than beating Naoya Inoue. Mansilla (19-4, 13 KO) is a 34-year-old Argentine who has come over to the UK and won, upsetting then-unbeaten Dylan Price in May 2025 via eighth round KO. Overall, he’s just 4-3 in his last seven fights, but that win over Price makes him bookable for this fight against Masoud, just on location.
- Kieron Conway vs Mark Jeffers, super middleweights, 10 rounds, British title eliminator
- Preview:This could be a good one, there’s Fight of the Night potential here. Well-matched, two good, domestic-level vets in Conway (23-4-1, 7 KO) and Jeffers (20-2, 7 KO). Jeffers, 28, is coming in off of back-to-back losses to Sean Hemphill and Willy Hutchinson, so he really needs the win, and to be fair he’s really a super middleweight, and he fought Hutchinson at 175. And Hutchinson is good. Conway, 30, was stopped in 10 by George Liddard when his corner threw the towel last October, and this is his first fight back, after winning the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles, which he then lost to Liddard.
- Joe Howarth vs Corey O’Regan, lightweights, 10 rounds
- Preview:24-year-old Howarth (15-2, 4 KO) is nicknamed the “Wigan Warrior,” but being real, he’s never beaten a truly credible pro, and he lost clear to Giorgio Visioli in a step-up last December. O’Regan (15-1, 3 KO) is 30, a southpaw out of Yorkshire, has also really only beaten club fighters, was stopped in five by Jack Rafferty in a Commonwealth title fight at 140 in April 2025.