Orange amateur boxer Jack Littlefield has survived a tough battle to retain his light middleweight state title for the third time.
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Littlefield, 19, beat Ty Telford from Sydney gym Darkside Boxing, in a tight encounter at the Whitlam Leisure Centre at Liverpool on Saturday night.
The victory now sets up a busy month for Littlefield with two fights in seven days coming up.
Littlefield’s father and trainer, Dave Littlefield, said he was looking forward to the challenge.
“He has a matched bout in Sydney against another experienced opponent, Aaron McQuillan, on March 11,” he said.
“Then the week after that he fights on March 18 for his state title again at Cowra.”
However, they don’t know who the challenger will be as the original nomination pulled out this week.
“We are expecting there will be another challenger,” Littlefield said.
But while it is harder to prepare for a fight against an unknown opponent they are keen for him to have as many fights as possible.
“He is at a level now where most of his fights are against the top amateur boxers in the state,” he said.
Littlefield has now fought 36 bouts.
“He’s trying to rack up as many fights as he can to get more experience.”
Littlefield said Saturday’s night’s bout was the main event on a 17-fight card.
“Jack was defending his light middleweight state title for the third time.
“The whole fight was really high quality and the crowd really enjoyed it.”
Littlefield said Telford was ready for the fight from the start and provided a lively opening round.
“Ty came out very fast in the first round, Jack stayed composed and it was a very close round.”
The intensity of the first round continued in the second but by the third round [Jack] Littlefield begin to assert his authority.
“Jack upped his work rate a bit and started to wear down Ty a bit.”
Littlefield said the fight was still in the balance in the fourth round.
“Jack really dug deep and pushed hard to the last second.”
He won on a unanimous decision from the judges in a close encounter.
Littlefield will take a six-week break after the Cowra title defence before preparing for some major bouts later in the year including competing in the national titles in Victoria in late November.
And he is aspiring to make the Australian team for the 2018 Commonwealth games, which will be held on the Gold Coast.
Long term he hopes to turn professional but is determined to have reached 60 fights before making the leap.