James Hare planned to scrutinise the video before beating himself up over the shock of being knocked down.

Hare was put on the canvas by Hungarian Jozsef Matolcsi on the way to his second defence of the WBF welterweight title.

The unbeaten Huddersfield fighter won with a tenth-round stoppage but was critical of his 28th career win.

He said: "Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on myself but I've set high standards in recent fights. But it was another convincing win against somebody respectable, so there's good and bad to come out from this.

"Everything was there in fits and starts but I let myself get too involved."

It was the second time Hare had been dropped in his career, although he wanted a good look at the TV re-run before holding up his hand.

Hare added: "We were too tangled up and, although he hit me in the chest, I felt I got bundled over. At the time it was more of a slip but maybe it will look different on the video.

"It's happened to me once before against Mark Ramsey in Crawley nearly three years ago. But that was the same sort of thing and more the result of a shove than a punch. If you get caught flush on the chin that's fair enough. But it didn't feel like a proper knockdown and the referee was fairly apologetic afterwards.

"The kid was tough and durable and you shouldn't take anything away from him. But I completely outfought him and was way ahead on the scorecards when the fight got stopped."

Hare will take the rest of the month off to allow the swelling in his hands time to heal before preparing for another defence in Yorkshire on December 4.

He said: "I was boxing out of my skin about ten days ago so perhaps I might have peaked a bit too early.

"You learn something each time and I'll take that into the next fight.

"But I need to take a close look at it again on the tape. You get a totally different view from

being in there and I'll be able to get a better view on my performance."