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In May, however, Cotto lost his light-middleweight crown to Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Callum Smith's hopes hang in the balance after the Liverpool man lost his light-heavyweight semi-final.

But that was before the arrival of the man team captain Tom Stalker, who lost his light-welterweight quarter-final in agonising fashion, calls the "dream-maker".

Olympic silver medallist Khan lost his light-welterweight titles, having been deducted a point in two rounds by the referee for pushing his opponent.

"He seemed to lose his spark, almost like the light in his eyes went out.

Rees' only defeat over his 39-fight career came when he lost his WBA light welterweight crown to Andriy Kotelnyk in 2008.

It was also the second straight knockout defeat for Jones, who lost his World Boxing Council light-heavyweight crown when he was knocked out by Antonio Tarver on May 15.

The 31-year-old, who runs a supermarket in home town Dungiven, believed he was short-changed when he lost his WBA light-welterweight challenge to Amir Khan in Manchester last night.

When Curtis Woodhouse lost his English light-welterweight title on points to Shane Singleton on Friday night, he was branded a "disgrace" on the social networking site by 'Jimmyob88'‏, who has reportedly been abusing Woodhouse on Twitter for months.

His victory came on the same evening fellow Welshman Nathan Cleverly lost his WBO light-heavyweight title at the Motorpoint Arena.

The 26-year-old Welshman lost his WBO light-heavyweight title to Sergey Kovalev, suffering the first loss of his 27-fight career to the Russian.