By Andrew Wake at ringside: Reigning British and English ABA welterweight champion Liam Cameron barely put a foot wrong as he successfully negiotiated his first outing in the paid ranks with a clear cut points win over grizzled Nottingham veteran Matt Scriven at Sheffield City Hall on Saturday night (October 24 2009).

Cameron, 19, turned his back on trying for a place on Team GB’s squad for the London Olympics in 2012 to pursue his dream of championship glory in the professional side of the sport and his army of fans will be glad he did after this efficient performance.

The debutant stung Scriven, who came into the bout on the back of last week’s knockout win over Terry Maughan, with a short right to the body and left hand upstairs in the opener.

Scriven tried hard to unload to the torso early in the second session but Cameron quickly repelled him with a solid left followed by a right hook. But the third was the round in which Cameron really began to let fly, catching the Midlander with a meaty uppercut and roundhouse left hook.

Bleeding from above his right eye, Scriven gallantly tried to press forward in the following rounds but Cameron soaked up the blows before dancing into space and popping off jabs and right hands to the side of the head. 

Referee Michael Alexander scored the contest 60 points to 54.

“It’s a lot harder to keep track of what round it is and you think you’ve done more than you’ve done,” Cameron said, comparing the pro game to the amateurs afterwards. “But you can hurt ‘em a lot more in this. I kept looking at his cut and I was concentrating on that ‘cause I wanted to open it up. 

“Scriven was a good kid and people have said they take their hat off to me for boxing him in my first fight. He’s boxed some good people, he fought Craig Watson and he gave him a good fight and he boxed Ashley Theophane, who has had nearly 30 fights and beaten a former world champion, so it was good.

“I want to thank my all the fans who turned out and my sponsors Sheffield Kitchen Outlet who’ve help me out a lot.”

Next up for the young Yorkshire man is a fight in Bradford at some point in December.

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