BUSY Worcester boxer Harry Butler slipped to a 60-55 points defeat at Leeds Irish Centre last night against Doncaster's Dean Cockburn.

Butler was taking part in his 66th professional fight and he managed to keep things fairly close in the opening stages.

But the smaller Yorkshire boxer connected with a huge right mid-way through the third that left Butler with a heavy nose bleed.

By the end of the contest his face resembled something out of an old Hammer horror movie.