World title next for Booth

Booth: world-title tilt?

If I could get Jason a world title fight before he retires it would give me as much pleasure as I got when Lennox Lewis won the world heavyweight championship.

Frank Maloney
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Frank Maloney is going all out to secure Jason Booth a crack at the world title.

The man known as 2-Smooth made a consummate first defence of his British super-bantamweight title on Tuesday night, outclassing Rocky Dean over 12 one-sided rounds.

Booth has also won titles at flyweight (European and British), super-flyweight (IBO) and bantamweight (Commonwealth) in a 38-fight career (33-13KO-5-0) that has seen him overcome problems out of the ring.

But Maloney believes his best bet of conquering the world lies in the lower weight categories and has set himself a mission of delivering a world-title fight in the near future.

"If I could get Jason a world title fight before he retires it would give me as much pleasure as I got when Lennox Lewis won the world heavyweight championship," he said.

Lobbying

"Maybe the world champions at super-bantamweight are a bit too big, but at bantamweight and certainly super-flyweight he would be a match for anybody.

"I will be at the WBC convention later this year lobbying on his behalf and I will see what possibilities there are with the other governing bodies.

"He is an old school fighter who isn't worried who he fights. Plenty of fighters moan about opponents, well they should look at Jason as an example."

One man Booth is not to be keen on though, is another of Maloney's charges, European super-bantam boss Rendall Munroe.

The pair are good friends and Booth has already said he does not want to fight the Leicester binman, who set to move up into world class when he returns from a deserved break later this year.

As a result, Booth may well choose to step back down to bantamweight, but could also defend his super-bantamweight title in a blockbuster against mandatory Michael Hunter.