Teresa Perozzi claimed her first pro won on home canvas ? and wants to use her impressive victory to re-launch her career Vegas-style.

The Island's only pro gave a gritty, bloody and noisy Fight Night the perfect crescendo, plugging away at world number12 Elizabeth Kerin with a succession of left hooks and crosses to claim a popular points victory.

She rightly earned a standing ovation from the fanatical 1,500 fight fans after dealing with her lanky opponent in her usual compact style and the victory more than made up for the absence of the super heavyweight re-match between Sharieff Wales and Freeman Smith from Saturday's card.

"That's what I wanted," gushed Perozzi post-fight, with the adrenaline still coursing through her veins.

"She was a big girl, but didn't have the power I expected and I think I fought 75 percent of my fight plan.

"I took her inside a lot and boxed how I wanted to. I was really happy with the way I connected, although I was hoping to have thrown more punches."

Her post-bout euphoria was in a direct contrast to her only previous home bout, when she lost out on points to Monica Nunez at CedarBridge Academy and was left considering her future in the fight game.

This win, however, could re-launch her carer.

"If I can beat the world number 12, then why not the one, two or three?" she asserted, to hoots of glee from her equally pumped entourage.

"I've proved a lot to myself and to other people tonight but I know I can still do much more. There are things I need to work on in training but I want to move on from this and head to Vegas and see what I can do over there.

"I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be and I fought a good fight ? and I want to keep going in boxing. I loved tonight and now I want to take my boxing to Vegas."

At 5ft 10ins, Kerin towered over her opponent and sought to use the jab and her extra reach to her advantage but the crouching Perozzi kept slipping past the American's guard to land a succession of clean hits.

A right-left combination in the first brought cheers from the partisan crowd as did a punch in the second that put Kerin on her knee, although a lack of a standing count even though the glove touched the canvas indicated a slip by the taller girl.

In the third, Perozzi again made contact with at last two strong left hands while the final round saw Kerin battle back and although she did connect with a series of blows, the home fighter also landed as many as five clean hooks.

There was little doubt which way the fight was going to go and the decision, despite some incredulity over the 40-30 score, was greeted with the level of noise you would expect from a vociferous crowd desperate to see some genuine pugilism after a succession of entertaining, but scrappy, amateur contests.

Perozzi's glee at clinching the decision in the night's top bout was matched by Kerin's disbelief, with the Chicago launching a stinging tirade against the Bermudian judges and calling the Island girl's win "the classic hometown" decision. The fight was scored 40-37, 40-36 and 40-30 by the same three judges who had given Nunez the win last year.

But her fury will fall only on the deaf ears of those in Number One Shed whose applause and cheers clearly backed the judges' decision.

There had been boos emanating from the crowd, however, earlier in the evening after disagreeing with the scoring from two of the other bouts as well as the news that three of the 13 scheduled bouts weren't taking place.

In the other key contests, Jerome Kaines claimed the welterweight belt in a re-match victory over Bruno Parker while the noisy Renegades rugby crowd revelled in the slightly questionable points victory by Irishman Darragh (The Bullet) O'Donoghue over Police's Bermudian fighter George Spurling.