Local hero Lindsay finds the going too tough

In other championship action in the Odyssey, local favourite Martin Lindsay, game but outclassed, was well beaten on points by the extremely talented if also arrogant Welshman Lee Selby for the British & Commonwealth Featherweight title.

Rare to see a referee in the pro game stop a fight to lecture a fighter on his showboating, but that was the fate suffered by Selby — rightly so.

In an official eliminator for the British & Commonwealth super-flyweight championship, yet another local hero, Jamie ‘Mexican’ Conlan (brother of Olympic bronze medallist Michael) left it late against Liverpool’s Mike Robinson but a tenth-round TKO was enough to see him take the honours.