New British champion Scott Quigg’s sensational seventh round stoppage win over Jason Booth has got his promoter Ricky Hatton hailing him the new ‘Hitman’.
The 23-year-old from Bury looked impressive against the former IBO fly-weight champion to collect the super-bantamweight title and possibly end Booth’s career.
And former two-weight world champion Hatton is convinced Quigg can become a global star.
“He’s brilliant - a total all-rounder,” he said. “My opinion of him hasn’t changed. I think he’ll be a world champion one day. Critics will say Jason (Booth) has seen better days, but people like that, who’ve been at world level know how to look after themselves. In the end Jason looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights.
“Scott’s a nice kid, a local kid who is close to his family,” Hatton added. “He’s a little bit like me - he’s down to earth is dedicated. He's a big ticket seller, he’s got the right attitude and with all that you’d like to think he can go a long way.”
Booth retired at the end of the seventh round following total domination from his younger opponent. After the fifth round, the 33-year-old was warned by his corner to start throwing punches or risk the bout being stopped.
Despite his best efforts to force his way back into the fight, Quigg proved too sharp and elusive for Booth to make any in-roads and he failed to come out of his corner after the seventh.
“He’s not just a domestic level fighter, he is a top level fighter," said Quigg of his opponent, “At the end of the seventh round he put his arm from me and said ‘thank you’. I've got so much respect for him and it was like he handed over the reins to me.”
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