By Scott Gilfoid: Welterweight Frankie Gavin (11-0, 8 KO’s) is blaming his awful performance last Saturday night against Curtis Woodhouse on fighting out of his weight class instead of looking at the possibility that he lacks the talent to run over good fighters like Woodhouse. Gavin will now be changing his diet and moving back down to light welterweight where he hopes to make more of a mark.

It’s hard to see Gavin doing well at light welterweight or welterweight, because he lacks hand speed and power. You got to have one or both to be a factor and unfortunately for Gavin, he has neither. Gavin is just a good domestic level guy but not necessarily the best domestic fighter, as we saw when he met his match against Woodhouse.

Gavin said this to the BBC: “I’m going to have to change my diet and get down to ten stone. Ten seven completely knocked me out. I don’t feel as quick. I just feel terrible. I give it a fix or six out of ten performance.”

I personally gave Gavin a three out of ten. He looked terrible against Woodhouse, but then again Gavin has looked mediocre since he turned pro in 2009. He’s never fast, so I don’t know what he’s talking about. I guess it’s one of those things that you think inside of your head. My initial thoughts about Gavin when he first turned pro was how on earth was this slow-handed, weak punching guy ever going to amount to anything as a pro? Nothing has changed since then other than he’s moved up in weight and is continuing to look slow and hittable.

The fighter that does seem to have some talent is Woodhouse, not Gavin. That’s the guy that they need to be dumping money on to realize his potential. Gavin is what he is. I can’t see him getting any better than he is now. If anything, he’ll probably get worse before he gets better. Woodhouse, though, actually has some talent you can work with. If you put him in with the right trainer he might go somewhere. But with Gavin, I don’t think it matters who trains the guy, I see him being about what he is now. He’s tapped out as far as his potential goes in my view.