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It's a Brum rap for hat-trick hero Tommy Ghent

Coseley's Tommy Ghent learned on the job on another Second City assignment in Birmingham against his toughest adversary to date.

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The ever-game Jay Morris, with former Commonwealth lightweight champion Graham Earl in his corner, was brought in for Friday night's fight.

'Isle of Wight Assassin' Morris was trusted to to go the distance and do that he did over the six-round distance on ex-pro Tommy Owens' bill at the Paragon Hotel.

He also let Ghent know he wasn't going to have it all his own way with probably the hardest shot his young opponent has encountered, a big right hook to the face in the first round.

Ghent fired back on the inside with hooks and uppercuts and a barrage left Morris marked and swelling to the left eye, but unperturbed as he battled on.

The middle rounds saw Ghent settle and start to deal with Morris, who stuck to his guard and went nowhere, by keeping close and using his quick hands to pepper his adversary to the body and head.

His attacks started to tell in round five when he left the usually-unflappable Morris wincing from a right hook that banged him straight on the nose, forcing him to retreat nursing his conk.

Further attacks in the sixth made Morris' eye worse but the durable visitor made it the final bell, as expected, leaving the scores with the referee, Wolverhampton's Gareth Morris.

Morris, as was also expected to the case, scored it a points shut-out to Ghent after the six allotted rounds, 60-54, maintaining his flawless record as a professional boxer.

Ghent moves to five straight professional victories, three by stoppage – and now a hat-trick of successes in Birmingham.

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