The long awaited scrap between Scott Quigg and Rendall Munroe ended in a technical draw after 3 rounds due to an accidental clash of heads and Munroe sustaining a bad cut above his right eye.
Both fighters have expressed their desire to get a rematch on as soon as possible after a disappointing end to their interim WBA super-bantamweight title clash.
Referee Howard Foster adjudged it fairly to have been an accidental clash of heads and as the contest had not gone four rounds, it was announced as a technical draw.
Hatton Promotions are hoping they can arrange another meeting between the pair when Munroe’s cut is fully healed after the summer following the unsatisfactory ending at Manchester Velodrome on Saturday night.
“I can’t wait to go again,” said Munroe. “It’s a game of these things happen and you just have to go with it.”
Quigg also admitted his desire to go again as he claimed his game plan was working well as he allowed Munroe to come on to him and tried to pick his man off.
He said: “We both want to prove who is number one and the point is not proven so we both want to fight again.
“I felt in control. The second round I was just getting into it and everything was going to plan and I believe it was going to be my night.”
Meanwhile, Sergey Rabchenko claimed the vacnt European light-middleweight title with a stunning seventh-round stoppage of Sheffield’s Ryan Rhodes.
After a cagey start from both, Rhodes hurt the Belarusian with a big right hand in the third round and the fight came to life.
Rabchenko was not put off by Rhodes’ seemingly more powerful shots as he continued to push the Sheffield man back against the ropes.
Rabchenko then pounced in the seventh as he caught his man with to the head before a crunching left hook to the body left Rhodes in agony on the canvas and even though he got to his feet at nine, the fight was stopped.
Richard Towers took the vacant EU heavyweight crown with 9th-round stoppage after surviving an onslaught in the fifth round from Frenchman Gregory Tony, while Martin Murray shook off some cobwebs with a 98-93 points win over Karim Achour.
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Louis Norman bt Delroy Spencer – pts
Scott Jenkins bt Kristian Laight – pts
Adam Etches bt Ferenc Zold – TKO2
Craig Watson bt Tomasz Mazurciewicz – pts
Lucas Browne bt Hastings Rasani – KO1
Adam Little bt Dee Mitchell – pts
Kallum De’Ath bt Anwar Alfadi – pts
Daily Sport says – It is a real shame for both guys for the fight to have end like this after they had trained so hard and put so much effort into the bout. We can’t wait for the re-match.
