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Fair play to dominant Weetch

Trainer Justin Lacey celebrates with Jamie Weetch after Weetch's win over Wade Ryan. Pic via Facebook/Lacey's Justin

Perth middleweight Jamie Weetch continued his impressive start to 2015 with a third win in three months on Saturday night.

Weetch claimed a unanimous eight-round points victory over hometown boxer Wade Ryan in Gunnedah, NSW.

"It was a good win, it was a hard fight," Weetch said. "In fairness to him he took the shots, usually they don't last that long when I'm landing."

Weetch said he "popped an eardrum" after getting caught with a shot in round two. "I managed to battle through that and was able to carry on beating him up," he said.

"I knew I was breaking him down. I wanted to get the eight rounds in but fighting him in his own back garden, I thought I would need a knockout to win. But the judges were fair and they gave me the decision.

"And a good thing about fighting away from Perth is that I didn't have the hassle of selling tickets. That can be really stressful - my girlfriend was pulling grey hairs out of my head two weeks before the fight last time!"

Weetch, now with a record of six wins and two losses, has been in Perth two-and-a-half years since moving from Wales and his Currambine trainer Justin Lacey couldn't be happier with his progress.

"People are going to see a better-prepared fighter who's improving all the time," Lacey said.

"This was a bit of a war but he came through. Jamie landed the bigger punches and hurt Wade a few times.

"It was good to get a few solid rounds in at this stage of his career."

Lacey hopes to squeeze in a six-rounder for Weetch in NSW or Queensland before he heads back to Wales in June to be best man at his friend's wedding.

While Weetch is in Europe he plans a trip to Ireland with his girlfriend. With the famed Irish hospitality, is there a danger he might come back a division or two higher?

"Haha, no, I'll still be training every day while I'm away. Promise!" he said.

- NSW welterweight Cameron Hammond put himself in the frame for a shot at the Commonwealth title with a four-round KO of Fijian Jese Ravudi on the Sunshine Coast.

"I got the KO with probably my best performance as a pro," the 2012 London Olympian said after taking his record to 12-0.

Ravudi was actually ahead on all three cards when the end came.

He came out all guns blazing from the first bell, with Hammond covering up.

"He can't keep this up long," Hammond told his corner at the end of the first round, but Ravudi gave it a good go in the second.

However, Ravudi began to punch himself out and Hammond probably edged the third before getting serious in the fourth.

First he decked Ravudi with a big right to the temple, a shot Ravudi did well to get up from. Then Hammond, defending his WBA Oceania title, finished it off by smashing in another right followed by a left hook which lifted his opponent off his feet.

"Cameron was really impressive, it was especially pleasing that he didn't allow himself to get flustered when Ravudi came out a million miles an hour," Hammond's manager Matt Clark said.

Former European middleweight champion Kerry Hope, who now lives in Brisbane, set himself up for a tasty bout with Michael Zerafa next month by blowing away Indonesian Jamed Jalarante in one round. And super-flyweight Brad Hore, a two-time Olympian, outclassed another Indonesian, Afrizal Tamboresi, over 10 rounds.