Anthony Fowler played his latest part in setting up his long-wanted rematch against Scott Fitzgerald.

The former Team GB star, who won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow in 2014, was beaten by Fitzgerald in his home city of Liverpool in March last year.

Fowler, then under the tutelage of Dave Coldwell, had two winning returns before splitting with the Rotherham-based coach and joining Shane McGuigan.

Their first fight together came at Manchester Arena, as part of the supporting cast to the super-featherweight clash between Scott Quigg and Jono Carroll, exclusively live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN Stateside.

Theophilus Tetteh, the former WBO African super-welterweight champion, was in the opposite corner and was dropped four times before the referee Bob Williams called a halt to proceedings at the end of the first.

“The fight was what it was and now it’s ‘Wait and see, lad’ to Scott Fitzgerald,” he said. “I turned professional and it was too easy for me, I was knocking kids out for fun. Scott gave me a bit of a lesson, but I’m with Shane now and I believe you’ll see the best of me.”

Fowler (12-1, 9 KOs) had been set to defend his WBA Inter-Continental super-welterweight title against Jack Flatley, the former English champion, on the card, but he withdrew from the fight on Tuesday of fight week.

“Sometimes, in this game, when you get screwed in fight week and an opponent pulls out, it’s either look around the world and see who you can get or not fight at all,” said promoter Eddie Hearn of Fowler’s outing. “I’m sad that we didn’t get to see exactly what Fowler had been working on with Shane, but at least he was going through the motions and getting paid instead of not fighting at all.”