Prior to Saturday, Paul David was looking to pick a fight with a British champion at one of three weights.
But after being demolished in under three minutes by Travis Dickinson on a Sky Sports-televised six-rounder in Aberdeen last night [February 25], the Northampton fighter will now be looking to pick up the pieces of his career.
David [pictured on the offensive against Carl Drake in Prizefighter two years ago] had never been halted in a stop-start six-year paid journey that saw him have Midlands Area light-heavyweight and English super-middleweight belts strapped around his waist - as well as pushing current WBA world Interim 12st champion Brian Magee all the way in just his seventh outing.
Yet after a sharp start to his bout with former light-heavyweight Prizefighter champion Dickinson, who hadn't seen competitive action since that triumph 13 months ago, the 27-year-old ex-Ingle-tutored but now Johnny Eames-trained puncher caught a left-left-right high on the temple, hit the ground with a thud and desperately tried to regain his senses in order to continue.
Though the impact of the senses-scrambling punch meant he initially fell drunkenly into the ropes as he tried to reach his feet, David, who drops to 13-6 (5) and who suffered his first stoppage defeat, somehow made it to a vertical position. It was to no avail, however, and Kenny Pringle rightly waived it off 97 seconds into the opening session.
The devastating and conclusive manner of the defeat for a loose, quick-footed Midlander who's always been matched tough and was once penciled in to box for the vacant Lonsdale Belt at 12st could set him back a fair bit. He was nailed by a crunching shot early and never had the chance to recover. That's boxing.
But for Frank Maloney-handled Dickinson, who holds two amateur victories [one by first-round stoppage] over reigning British super-middleweight champion George Groves, he'll be looking for progressive bouts that will catapult him towards an exciting-looking showdown with the current British and Commonwealth 12'7 boss, Liverpool's all-action Tony Bellew.
Both weighed 12st 11lbs and, for the record, that's the fourth Midlands-based fighter [after Brummie pair Hamed Jamali and Hastings Rasani and flashy Coventry stylist Llewy Davies] that the Country Durham banger, now 11-0 (5), has beaten since turning to the professional ranks three years ago.
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