Leo Richardson and Kejon Trott both gained revenge for recent defeats against their opponents at the top of Saturday?s Fight Night bill ? but in very different ways.

Richardson out-punched Joshua Smith over five intense, bruising rounds to win the unofficial title of Bermuda?s best heavyweight.

But it was much easier for Trott, who was presented with the Middleweight Championship belt as soon as he climbed into the ring, as his opponent Andre Bean had failed to show up.

Richardson?s triumph was a fitting finale to the eighth Teachers Rugby Club Fight Night in front of 1,000 raucous boxing fans in the electric atmosphere of Hamilton?s Number One Shed.

Have-a-go heroes, most with no previous experience in the ring, dominated the first 11 bouts. Unconventional boxing of variable quality and much raw courage, peppered with a little hilarity, was the result.

Richardson?s victory ? his eighth in his ten-fight amateur boxing career ? was well deserved and gave him a 2-1 head-to-head advantage against Smith.

As he posed with the Heavyweight Championship belt afterwards, the construction worker felt he had set the record straight following his defeat by Smith earlier this year.

?I feel great,? 34-year-old Richardson said. ?I feel like I settled a score. This was tougher than our other two fights.

?He had to prove he could beat me on my best night ? and he couldn?t.?

Richardson said he had been forced to fast on the day of their last encounter in order to make the fighting weight. This time, however, he was fully fuelled up and weighed in at 194 pounds.

From the opening bell, it was hard-hitting hairdresser Smith who came out much the more aggressive and repeatedly pinned Richardson back onto the ropes.

Richardson survived unscathed and bounced back with an assault of his own in the third round. Smith hit the canvas, but it was due to a slip rather than a punch.

Richardson landed telling blows to Smith?s headguard in the third and fourth rounds. And although Smith gave it everything to claw his way back in the final round, Richardson?s defence held up to maintain his points advantage.

?It was a hard fight, but I felt pretty much in control,? Richardson said. ?I did get sloppy at one point and backed off too many times. But my corner helped me put it right.

?He tried to hold me to stop me getting in big uppercuts. If he wants the belt, he can come and fight me again. I?m not ready to retire. If he wants a rematch, then I?m ready.?

Smith declined to comment afterwards, though it was clear that when the unanimous points decision went against him, he was disgruntled.

?Smith thought he?d won by manhandling Leo,? Chuck Renaud, Richardson?s trainer at Controversy Gym, said. ?The referee warned him for it three or four times.

?Leo was a comfortable winner and he did it on three weeks training. He wasn?t prepared for the last fight ? that was a make-believe fight.

?Leo kept coming forward. That was the plan and he stuck to it.?

For 19-year-old Trott, the revenge gained over Bean was somewhat less satisfying. Bean?s no-show robbed the bill of one of its two title bouts and, according to Fight Night organiser Nir Sadeh, the 29-year-old did not call in to inform anyone he would be absent.

Trott, a cable technician and winner of the Arizona Golden Gloves, was defeated by Bean last month at CedarBridge, leaving their head-to-head record tied at 1-1.

Trott told last week that the judges had called that fight wrongly and claimed he would win easily this time. He said Bean hadn?t turned up for a scheduled photo shoot with him ?because he?s scared?.

After receiving his belt on Saturday night, Trott took the microphone and told fans: ?If you read your paper, you?ll know why he didn?t show up.?

Asked later how he felt, Trott said: ?I feel like I?m the champion. I know why he didn?t show up. It?s because he wasn?t ready. And he knows that.?

In the best of the undercard action, 19-year-old Kamel Dickinson registered his third victory in three fights with a hard-fought split decision over Lynden Woods.

In a women?s exhibition bout, 25-year-old Robyn Swan showed great promise with her stylish domination of a smaller opponent, Shameen Iqbal, to earn a unanimous points decision.

In other fights (unanimous points decision unless indicated otherwise): Mark Lea defeated Ed Sikora; Robin Perry defeated Thomas Greenslade; Greg Vandermade defeated Dejon Seymour (split decision); Reece Simpson defeated Gary Wilson; Mark Dunlop defeated Mike Williams (retirement); Asaph Rawlins defeated Daniel Greenslade (split decision); Mike Totman defeated Mustafa Rial (retirement); Tom Healy defeated Peter Millard (split decision); Nathan Sorentino defeated Darren Xuereb.