Watson vows to bounce back

In his 11th fight, against journeyman Brett Fidoe at Villa Park in Birmingham, the 24-year-old Guernseyman was stopped 56 seconds into the second of the scheduled six rounds.

He was knocked down by a huge shot to the temple and, although he got straight back up, it was not long before referee Kevin Parker stopped the contest.

Fidoe's success was only the fifth in his 28-fight career and ended a run that had seen eight successive defeats prior to it, but Watson was magnanimous in defeat.

'I got complacent and probably a bit over-confident, which is something you can't afford to do at any level in this sport, so I have no excuses,' he said.

'The funny thing is that I dominated the first round and he didn't land a shot on me. That continued in the very early part of the second, but then I missed a jab and he caught me right on the temple with a big overhand right-hander.

'You can't do anything about those and, although I made a mistake in getting back up straight away rather than staying down until an eight count, they are nigh-on impossible to recover from that quickly.'

Watson does not believe it will damage his career badly.

'It has probably set me back a fight now, but nothing worse than that because I will take this on the chin, move on and come back a lot stronger.

'I will have a week off now to recover and then get back in the gym.

'These setbacks are part-and-parcel of boxing and I will bounce back.'