Edinburgh boxer ‘’Lightning’ Lee McGregor lost to Glasgow’s Nathaniel Collins in an all-Scottish featherweight fight at the Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday night.
The stoppage came at 1:45 of the fourth round when referee Mark Lyson called a halt to the match after former European, British, and Commonwealth bantamweight champion McGregor was knocked down for the third time in that round.
McGregor (15-2-1, 11 KOs) landed a superb right hook in the second round that had Collins pinned against the ropes.
But ‘The Nightmare’ responded and within 20-seconds of the bell to start the fourth McGregor had been knocked down twice.
On both occasions he took an eight count but when he went down for the third time the contest was ended and Collins claimed the vacant WBC silver featherweight title.
Post fight Collins said: “One year ago, in two days, I was lying in a hospital bed and didn’t know if I was going to box again, so to say I would put on a perfomance of a lifetime in front of these people?
“I would have laughed, can’t explain it in words. I’m a world-class boxer and can punch.
“America, Riyadh, wherever, I’d have done the same to [WBC world champion] Stephen Fulton,”
