Bobby Vanzie faces a series of spot-checks to make sure he doesn't cheat on his weight.

Bradford's British lightweight champion is rebuilding his career after the devastating loss to Yuri Romanov in January.

Vanzie's two-month medical ban following that shocker is up today and he plans to re-work his tactics before his next fight, a domestic title defence against hard-hitting Jon Thaxton in May.

The British Boxing Board of Control will be watching Vanzie closely after the weight problems that drained him of any strength in the WBO eliminator with the Russian.

Vanzie was hauled up before the Central Area Council to explain why he struggled to get down to the 9st 9lb limit. He has vowed to reduce his natural "walk-around" weight to make it easier when it comes to stepping on the fight scales.

Vanzie said: "Making 9st 9lb from 10st 3 is fine and you don't lose any strength. But trying to come down from 11st, which is what I have been, was suicide.

"Once you try and lose another half a stone then you are dipping into your conditioning. Six weeks of training doesn't then mean a thing.

"I watched the Romanov fight on video this week and my daughter could have knocked me down. Take away the knock-downs and it was very competitive, I just had absolutely no punch resistance.

"I could have been going down and bouncing back up again all night long."

Board doctors will now test Vanzie four times before he is due to weigh in for his next fight.

"They will check I'm coming down gradually and doing it in the right manner. But I know I should be more professional.

"But I've never had it easy and I normally come through with flying colours. It just so happens I'm going through a bad patch in my career.

"I can watch the Romanov fight and still take a lot of positives from it. Everything was done in the right manner, it was just the weight that screwed me up and I can do something about that."