Witter the best of light welterweight?

Junior Witter was touting himself as the best Britain had to offer in the light welter division and in recent years was constantly calling out fellow light welter Ricky Hatton for a showdown. Now he is a slippery little Devil and he has done very well for himself but last Saturdays bout saw him come up short against Devon Alexander when he failed to come out of his corner for the ninth round. This fight was for the vacant WBC belt that witter lost last year to Tim Bradley, Alexander looked the better man on the night and rocked the switch hitting Witter plenty of times, apparently so much so that by the time the bell rang announcing the ninth round Witter was done. Witter has later claimed that it was all down to an Elbow injury to his right arm from the fourth round but I must have failed to see this.

Witter also claimed to be up for a future bout with newly crowned light welter champion Amir Khan, if Khan won his debut in the light welterweight division for a world championship belt. And as it happened he did but I fail to see Witter getting a shot at that title now, It's a shame really that he didn't pull it off, all things considered it could have been a good fight.

Well while Witter figures out what went wrong and decides on his future plans we can all look forward to the next few months of Boxing which I might add will be awesome! Check out my next post for the line up of the fights I will most certainly be watching.