Kildare boxer Phelan looking to get back tonight on track after shock defeat last time out

Kildare boxer Allan Phelan is back in the National Stadium tonight and looking to get back on track after suffering a shock defeat in his last bout back in June.

The Newbridge man will take on Polish brawler Krzysztof Rogowski who has a record of 10 wins and 21 losses in his career so far, which is considerably worse than Phelan's record of eight wins and three losses.

Phelan's shock loss to Manchester's Jamie Quinn came as a setback in what was his first defeat since returning to Ireland from Canada last year, and though he felt he had done enough to win the fight, he isn't letting that loss bug him too much.

“I wanted to get back in straight away," he told Irish-boxing.com.

“I thought I did enough to win that fight [v Quinn] but, obviously, at the wrong weight and everything, it didn’t go to plan on the night.”

“It was a bit of everything really, there’s no point pin-pointing something, stuff went wrong, it was just a bad night – but everyone has bad night, we don’t like them, but they happen. It’s about how you come back from them.”

“I’m looking forward to getting back in.”

Phelan, who is back down at his proper weight - featherweight - for tonight's fight, and standing in the opposite corner is a boxer familiar to Kildare boxing fans. Rogowski was stopped in the second round by Athy's Eric Donovan in 2016, so hopefully 25-year-old Phelan can follow the Lilywhite Lightning's lead and notch another win on his belt.