Tony Oakey retained his British light-heavyweight title in Dublin but Bernard Dunne suffered a shocking first round defeat.
Draw not enough for Irish hero
Tony Oakey retained his British light-heavyweight title in Dublin by way of a controversial majority draw against Brian Magee.
The Portsmouth puncher had judge Mickey Vann to thank after he gave him the nod with Terry O'Connor and Ian John Lewis both scoring the fight 114-114.
The passionate Irish crowd in the Point Arena booed the verdict after Belfast's Magee looked to have done enough to have got the decision.
The 32-year-old clearly had the better of the early exchanges, opening up a cut over Oakey's right eye in the third round, although the champion outworked his opponent through the middle rounds.
The belt was there for the taking late in the contest and with Magee doing some of his best work in the 11th and 12th sessions, might have felt he had done enough.
It is not the first time Magee has been on the wrong end of a close call.
In 2004, he lost his unbeaten record and IBO super middleweight title on the cards to Robin Reid, and a year later Vitali Tsypko won the vacant European title on a controversial split decision in Germany.
On the same card, Bernard Dunne's world title ambitions went up in smoke when he lost his European super-bantamweight title to Kiko Martinez of Spain.
Dunne suffered the first defeat of his career to the hard-hitting Martinez, who had the Irishman down twice in the first round before Terry O'Connor spared him any more punishment.
Dunne was put on the canvas early on in a flurry of punches, and an overhand right saw him take another count inside a minute.
Martinez went in for the kill and the referee was forced to call a halt just 86 seconds into Dunne's third title defence.
The victory moved Martinez's record to 17 wins - 14 by way of knockout.
