NEWBRIDGE’S Bradley Pryce suffered a narrow defeat this weekend as his new found status as a boxing barometer took him to Poland.

The former Commonwealth light-middleweight champion has won just two of his last 11 fights and has reached the stage in his career where it’s not disrespectful to call him a journeyman, taking short notice fights around the world, with Poland at the weekend a case in point.

However, considering he was facing an undefeated fighter in Damian Jonak, Pryce can and will reflect on a job well done after the judges scored the contest 76-75, 76-75 and 77-75 against him.

The former Team Calzaghe fighter, who has recently opened his own amateur boxing club, was given a count in the fifth round but got up quickly and protested that he had slipped. However, the 10-8 round proved to be costly for Pryce who needed just one more point on the scorecards to earn a majority decision draw.

It is the third fight in a row that Pryce has lost out narrowly on the road, having been edged out against Lee Markham and Sam Sheedy by a single point on the scorecards in recent months after leaving Gary Lockett to train with another of his contemporaries, Jamie Arthur.

Meanwhile, Welsh super-middleweight champion Tobias Webb (15-3-1, 2KO) was unsuccessful in his ten rounder with Sheffield’s Liam Cameron (18-3, 6KO) on a Frank Warren show at the weekend.

All three judges scored in favour of Cameron who won 97-94, 97-93 and 98-93 on the scorecards against Webb, who is the nephew of former world champion Enzo Maccarinelli.

It was the first time that Swansea’s Webb has gone the ten round distance in his career.

It was also a grim weekend for Cwmbran’s Gary Lockett, at least partially, as one of his undefeated fighters lost his record.

Tonypandy’s Lewis Rees suffered a shock defeat to William Warburton, also on Warren’s show in Sheffield.

Referee Michael Alexander scored the six round contest 58-57 in favour of Warburton, handing Rees his first professional defeat at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre, a change to welterweight seemingly not suiting the Welsh champion who had been struggling to make light-welterweight.

However, Lockett did have a winner on the card as well, Maerdy’s Alex Hughes winning his second successive professional fight by knockout against Jamie Gelder.

Hughes earned a first round stoppage and despite not being renowned a big banger in the amateurs now has successive KO successes to his name as a pro.