Lyndon Arthur W12 Dec Spelman.... In the main event, the Commonwealth crown would be contested between Lyndon "King" Arthur (now 17-0) and Dec Spelman (16-4). The opening round was evenly matched with Spelman pushing the pace on the front foot and Arthur patiently waiting for an opportunity to land his patented right hand. Spelman would continue to try to push Arthur backwards through rounds two and three but Arthur was boxing well and landing good jabs and uppercuts. As round three came to a close, the more accurate work was coming from Arthur and blood had appeared on the face of Spelman. The fourth round was better for Spelman as he started to put his shots together well, with the straight right and left hook doing a good job for him. His right eye was starting to swell, though. Spelman worked hard in the fifth, but a solid right uppercut from Arthur showed his class and he spent the round peppering the Scunthorpe man with stiff jabs. Spelman rallied to finish the round on top with a couple of decent shots. Lyndon’s jab was equally potent in the sixth and he spent the early stages of the round holding his man back with the piston-like lead hand. Dec never looked in danger of slowing down, but the blood really began to show as the round closed with a showboating Arthur pinging shots towards Spelman with confidence. Round seven was another familiar tale of slickness versus industry and, though Spelman’s face told a tale of woe, he did land a decent right hook to the body of Arthur that made the ‘King’ wince. Round eight was another successful one for Arthur whose quality continued to show over Spelman’s pressure. Through rounds nine and ten Spelman continued to work hard but the gulf in class between the two men seemed only to grow as Arthur continued to box exquisitely off the back foot. Lyndon looked comfortable at all ranges and was hiding a dizzying area of bludgeoning shots behind more fantastic work with his jab. In characteristic fashion, Spelman pressed the action in the eleventh but there was a sense time was running out for him to turn it around.  That would prove to be true in the final round where Arthur summed up the fight as a whole by continuing to determine the pace with his solid jab and accurate array of power shots. It was left, then, to the judges to confirm what we already knew, as Arthur was confirmed to have defended his crown by margins of 116-112, 116-113 and 119-109 respectively. Bigger nights, and names, lay ahead for Arthur as Anthony Yarde is waiting just around the corner.