By Jim Dower: On Saturday night, Tony Quigley (13-1, 6 KOs) came up with a shocking 12th round TKO of former BBBofC British super middleweight champion Tony Dodson (24-5-1, 12 KOs) to win the vacant BBBofC British super middleweight title at the Echo Arena, in Liverpool. The fight was back and forth action with Quigley, 24, knocking Dodson, 28, to the canvas in the 2nd round. Dodson was a physical wreck at this point in the fight, sustaining a cut on the bridge of his nose and under his left eye.
After the 2nd round, Dodson would dominate the fight for the next eight rounds, staggering Quigley badly in the 6th with a huge right hand. However, Quigley, who looked totally exhausted in rounds three through ten, suddenly came back to life in the 11th round and hurt Dodson with two big right hands to the head.
In the 12th, Quigley knocked Dodson down at the start of the round with a right hand that caused Dodson to touch both of his gloves to the canvas to prevent from falling down on his face. Seconds later, Quigley connected with a nice left hook that put Dodson down on the canvas.
Dodson got up at the count of eight, and was immediately met with three consecutive fight hands from Quigley, ending with referee Victor Loughlin stepping in and stopping the fight at 1:14 of the round.
Quigley, who looks more like a slightly overweight middleweight than a legitimate super middleweight, showed incredible quickness with hands in the two rounds, attacking Dodson hard and hitting him with left hooks. In the 2nd round, Quigley roughed Dodson up early in the round, shoving him roughly to the canvas. Quigley would continue his stuff by later on throwing Dodson to the canvas for a second time.
It looked at this point as if Dodson was facing an MMA fighter rather than a normal, and he seemed totally unprepared for the rough unorthodox brawling that Quigley had brought with him into this bout. Immediately after the second push down, Quigley dropped Dodson with a straight right hand.
Quigley walked across the ring and let loose a huge right hand that connected to the side of Dodson’s head sending him to the canvas. However, in trying to knock Dodson out so fast, Quigley punched himself out and remained exhausted for the next seven rounds.
After dominating rounds three through five, Dodson hurt Quigley badly with a monstrous right hand early in the 6th. For the remainder of the round, Dodson landed an avalanche of punches as Quigley laid on the ropes absorbing a great deal of punishment.
Dodson would continue to batter Quigley for the next four rounds, using his superior size and power to give Quigley a lot of problems. Quigley looked tired and was just pushing his punches during these rounds. However, incredibly Quigley got his energy back in the 11th and ended up hurting Dodson, whose cut under his left eye had begun bleeding badly once again. In the 12th, Dodson looked like a spent force as he came out to begin the round and was quickly taken out after being dropped twice by Quigley.
“Tony Dodson is a warrior,” Quigley said after the fight. “I had to dig deep for the victory. It took until the 12th for me to get past his. Tony’s one of these fighters that keep on coming.“
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