Last Friday was another sad night for British boxing when once again poor scoring lost a British Champion his belt. Paul Smith had talked a lot in the build up to this fight about how Quigley would run and that he could not punch – the contest was actually the opposite – without Quigley there would not have been a fight. For 10 rounds it was the champion who was forcing the fight and the stats show he threw the most and landed the most punches and where he was never hurt it was clear that Smith was shaken on at least 2 occasions. Paul Smith did force the fight in the 12th Round when Tony was knackered and also for the last minute in the Eleventh following a low blow , does a good 4 minutes win you a title fight ???? – it seems the days of where a challenger had to rip the title from a Champion have gone !!!

Both fighters did under perform and Tony accepts that he did not do himself justice, but at only fifty percent he knows he still won the fight . He does not have a mark on him and would love the rematch that an embarrassed Frank Warren announced in the ring immediately after the fight , only to state in the press conference 15 minutes later that ‘maybe there will be a rematch’ – Team Quigley are not holding there breath on this one and will be looking to force their way back into a mandatory position.

The Boxing board really need to look at these scoring issues and order an immediate rematch.