Glasgow’s Nathaniel Collins said he was “absolutely gutted” after fighting out a 12-round draw with European featherweight champion Cristobal Lorente at Braehead Arena.<\/p>\n
Collins, 29, started strongly but the Spaniard, making his third defence, hit back in the closing stages, with the judges unable to separate them in a 115-113, 113-115, 114-114 split decision.<\/p>\n
Collins had been hoping to set up a crack at a world title fight, with neither boxer coming through the WBC final eliminator.<\/p>\n
“To me a draw is just as bad as a loss and, you know what, I hope we can run it back, in Glasgow again, and bring another big night back,” he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
“I’m absolutely gutted. Thank you so much everyone for the support.”<\/p>\n
On the undercard, Drew Limond, the 19-year-old son of the late EBU super featherweight champion Willie, won his welterweight fight against Alexeyv Mikhail Arellano Leon with a fourth-round knockout.<\/p>\n
There was further Scottish success at light heavyweight as Willy Hutchinson recorded a seventh-round knockout against Mark Jeffers and super middleweight as Alex Arthur Jr defeated Grzegorz Mardyla on points.<\/p>\n
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Reese Lynch outscored Jakub Laskowski at junior welterweight and junior featherweight Marcus Sutherland knocked out Kerim Agus in the first round.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s Steve Collins Jr lost on points to Javier Santana in the light heavyweight bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow’s Nathaniel Collins said he was “absolutely gutted” after fighting out a 12-round draw with European featherweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-181077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}