Jordan Ellison will be waiting by the phone ready to hit the road again “if the call comes”.
That was the message from coach Peter Cope after the Hartlepool and Seaham boxer took Northern Ireland puncher Carlo McCullough the distance on Belfast’s huge event on Saturday night, only to lose out on points.
Referee Eamonn Magill scored the six-round featherweight match 60-55 to the home fighter on the undercard of the Tyson Fury/ Carl Frampton show at Windsor Park.
Ellison had been chasing another scalp on the road – he has a number of notable away victories on his fight log – but McCullough had the better of the opening rounds.
Cope, head coach at Gus Robinson Developments, told punch-lines: “Jordan will be ready to go again if the call comes.
“He’s ready to fight straight away.
“He never got hurt on Saturday, got reasonably well paid and will move on.
“Jordan ‘s always fit and ready to fight.
“He could probably have taken McCullough a lot closer, but the kid was quite slick.
“Having said that, I thought the margin was a little bit wider than it should have been.
“McCullough won the first four but then in the fourth, Carlo hit Jordan with a big right and Jordan had a go back at him.
“For me, Jordan drew the fifth and won the sixth, but I think he only got a share of the last from the official.
“But you have to accept that when you go away.”
The 22-year-old now has a record of 10 victories against 16 defeats, with one of those losses being a seventh-round KO by Lewis Ritson for the Northern Area championship.
Given how ‘The Sandman’ has dominated the British lightweight title with four wins inside 11 rounds, it puts Jordan’s performance in a good light.
“Jordan will win a few and lose a few, that’s how his career will go,” added Cope. “He got started a bit late in Belfast but he’ll give anyone a fight and always goes out to win.”
