By Nate Anderson: Making his first defense of his BBBofC English welterweight title, champion Adnan Amar (23-1, 7 KO’s) completely dominated Tom Glover (9-7-3), defeating him by a 5th round stoppage on the undercard of the Super Six tournament bout between WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch and challenger Andre Dirrell on Saturday night at the Trent FM Arena, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Glover, 28, was never able to overcome the three inch height advantage of champion Amar, and ended up taking a one-sided beating for five rounds. Listed as 5’9 1/2″, Amar had much longer arms that Glover and was able to stand at a distance and pound him with jabs and hooks throughout the five rounds of the fight.

When Glover would attempt to get inside to land his shorter punches, Amar would skillfully steer around Glover while continuing to pump in punch after punch. It was not even close. Glover didn’t have the arm length, power or the speed needed to compensate for Amar’s reach and movement. Having seen Glover in previous winning efforts against Chas Symonds and Jonathan Thaxton, I felt that Glover would eventually get to Amar and start to take over the fight.

However, by round four, I no longer believed that it was possible because Glover was getting badly manhandled by Amar and his nose was swelling up and bleeding, looking as if it might have been broken by one of Amar’s hooks or uppercuts. The 5th round was especially one-sided, with Amar teeing off on Glover with hard hooks to the head, one after and another, and rarely getting hit by him in return.

Glover looked in pain from every punch he was getting hit with and I felt that the bout needed to be stopped soon. Thankfully, the bout was stopped after the 5th by Glover’s corner. He’s a great fighter, but he didn’t have the power to make the fight against Amar more level.

Amar was simply too big, too accurate and looked like a genuine welterweight, whereas Glover appeared to be a light welterweight stepping up over his head. Glover really needs to consider fighting at light welterweight because he doesn’t have the size to compete against the better welterweights in the division like Amar or Kell Brook.

Glover did little in rounds one through four, coming forward and walking into a shot after shot from Amar. The long arms of Amar made it really difficult for Glover, because he had to come from so far away just to get near him. Glover was able to land a shot or two occasionally, but the price he was paying as he came in was severe.

Amar looked really comfortable, winding up with bolo punches and hitting Glover with every punch in the book as he plodded in punching range. Glover looked bad in the first, but that was actually best round of the fight because he landed four or five punches. From that round on, Amar battered Glover ceaselessly with shots, raining them down on him as he came forward.