Nico confident he can take revenge

EXPECT the Midlands title rematch between Brandon Bethell and Nico Ogbeide to happen.

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EXPECT the Midlands title rematch between Brandon Bethell and Nico Ogbeide to happen.

The fact promotional outfit BCB, which guides both men, is already beating the drum for a return convinces me it will almost certainly happen.

I agree with Bordesley Green's Ogbeide when he says: “I don’t see why not. I don’t see a better fight for him out there; I don’t see a better fight for me out there”

Wolverhampton ticket-seller Bethell won the first encounter - an entertaining distance fight - in June with the vacant Midlands super-featherweight title on the line.

That 10-round decision remains the only loss on Ogbeide’s eight-fight record.

While waiting for news of an opportunity for revenge, the 31-year-old kept busy on BCB’s Friday show at the Eastside Rooms with a repeat four-round points win over Michael Mooney. He beat the Worcester man - a veteran of over 130 contests - over the same distance last year.

He was just as dominant this time round, taking every round.

“I enjoyed getting back to winning ways,’ he said. “It was going to be a six-rounder, but I had a virus, missed a week in the gym and was going to pull out, then decided to box over four.”

Ogbeide is itching for the chance to right a wrong against Bethell: he got the tactics wrong, he insists, and paid the price.

“I do kick myself a little bit,” he admitted. “Hindsight is a great thing - I wish I'd started faster, maybe done a six-rounder before.”

Ogbeide made the major jump from four rounds to 10.