Ted Cheeseman regains British super-welterweight title as he proves doubters wrong

Ted Cheeseman regained the British super-welterweight title with an 11th round knockout of James Metcalf on the undercard of Dillian Whyte-Alexander Povetkin’s heavyweight clash last night.

The 25-year-old South Londoner was instantly called out by former Olympian Anthony Fowler.

Cheeseman badly hurt Liverpudlian Metcalf in the fourth round but a torrent of blows could not force a finish and it turned into a gruelling contest.

But the Bermondsey boxer looked stronger heading into the final straight and a wicked left hook dropped Metcalf, who failed to beat the count.

“Again and again I’m in exciting fights,” said Cheeseman. “I’m always in entertaining fights. I’m improving and maturing. I’m working hard in the gym.

“Everyone doubted me and thought that I had a lot of miles on the clock. I’m still fresh as a daisy, and again I’ve cemented myself as the number one domestic super-welterweight.

“I felt I won the first five or six rounds. I nearly had him out of there in the fourth. I thought to myself ‘I’m not going to waste too much energy’. I used my experience and had a couple of rounds off. I don’t think he’d ever done the 12 rounds. Then it was time for me to step it up, bully him and push him back.

“It’s great to be in these fights because they’re entertaining. I’m looking forward to the future now. For a long while I was down, and everyone thought I was out. Now I’m flying again.

“The bookies had me as an underdog and a lot of people thought that I was going to get beat. I outboxed him, I outfought him and I knocked him out. I showed how good I am, and I showed how much I’ve improved.”

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