Alex Winwood vowed to make a swift return to world stage after shedding to the WBA minimumweight champion Thammanoon Niyomtrong in Perth, Australia.
In solely his fifth skilled contest, the 27 12 months outdated was making an attempt to turn out to be the quickest Australian male to win a world title.
Niyomtrong’s expertise and defensive consciousness regardless proved an excessive amount of of him, making certain the Thai earned a majority determination through scores of 114-112, 114-112 and 113-113 on the HBF Stadium.
“I shall be again – I dared to be nice, in opposition to the longest-reigning world champion,” Winwood mentioned, post-fight.
“My concept is to come back again. Watch me be nice once more. Give me one other shot.
“I assumed it was a very onerous combat. I acquired knocked down a few instances, and that was the choice that swayed all of it.
“In case you get knocked down, the factors get taken from you. However I nonetheless boxed like a champion for 12 rounds.
“This isn’t the final of me.”
Winwood was knocked down within the fourth, seventh and ninth rounds. The 33-year-old Niyomtrong has due to this fact received all 25 of his skilled fights, and Jeff Fenech stays the Australian male to have received a world title quickest – requiring seventh fights to win the IBF bantamweight title in 1985.
Blake Minto had by then crushed Steve Gago at welterweight, through unanimous determination. There was additionally a unanimous-decision victory at flyweight for Louisa Hawton, over Viviana Ruiz.
Lastly, at heavyweight, Lewis Clarke defeated Dylan Winter – additionally through unanimous determination.
