Bostan won a deserved decision but the wide scorecards didn’t tell the story of the fight. ‘Star Boy’ got involved in a real scrap.

“It was a trip full of lessons, inside and outside the ring. I’ve been there, done that and I’m ready to show the lessons I learned at the weekend,” said Bostan, who fights Jack Martin in Liverpool on Saturday night.

“Everybody talks about pressure but nobody puts more pressure on me than I do myself because I’m a perfectionist. I want to look good and I want to perform and I want to win by any means necessary. That’s what I want to do on Saturday, with flying colours.”

Bostan sees the fight with Martin as the ideal final step before he hits the title trail. 

“I’m looking forward to putting a good performance in and getting a tip closer to the English title and getting my first strap. Jack Martin is a tough man and on a good run but there’s levels and I’m ready to show that,” he said.

“The way I’m getting hyped up and the way I’m talking about myself, I want bigger and better things. I know Lee Cutler’s got the English title at the moment. Whether he vacates or not, I’ll fight whoever wins the eliminator for it. I’m here for it all.”

Martin, 9-1 (4 KOs), is no stranger to finding his way through adversity himself. In December, his Southern Area championship war with CJ Challenger made a late bid to scoop Fight of The Year honours. Martin won an outstanding battle in the eighth round, taking Challenger’s unbeaten record and earning himself this slot on a major televised card. 

Logic would dictate that the experienced Martin will set out to drag Bostan into another dogfight but the 29-year-old wants to be known for more than getting involved in crowd-pleasing brawls and he seems to have realised that Bostan will want to box and avoid repeating the mistakes he made against Russ.

“I’m here to project myself on a big level. I want to prove that I’m here and prove that I deserve to be here.” Martin said. “I didn’t have a great amateur pedigree and I’ve worked extremely hard on the small hall shows. I’ve been an underdog time and time again and proved so many people wrong and proved that I deserve to be here on this big stage.

“I’ve been working a lot smarter in the gym this camp. I know that I can do that due to my natural heart. I can go to deep waters and I know that I can handle myself there. Junaid isn’t going to get dragged into that. He’s a smart fighter and I have the utmost respect for him. It’s about being smarter and I’m realising that I can fight and box.”