Winning the British title would mean “everything” to newly crowned two-time Commonwealth champion Reece Bellotti.
The South Oxhey fighter claimed the vacant super featherweight belt with an eighth-round stoppage of Aqib Fiaz at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Saturday in a fight that was also the final eliminator for the British title.
Saturday’s victory came after Bellotti caught his opponent with a left hook, forcing him to take a knee with just over 50 seconds of the eighth round remaining. Previously unbeaten Fiaz was up quickly, only to then by caught with a flurry of head and body punches that led to trainer Jamie Moore throwing in the towel at the end of the round.
“The fight kind of played out how our game plan was. We knew that he was going to be sharp early on, he was good and he’s very hard to get hold of, but as soon as I started stabbing away at the body and slowing him down it paid in the end.”
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