Darlington boxer Stuart Hall says he won't quit despite world title defeat

Stuart Hall has vowed to box on following his courageous IBF bantamweight title defeat to Randy Caballero.

Darlington’s Hall was unable to recapture the vacant title which he lost to Paul Butler four months ago as he lost a unanimous points decision in Monte Carlo.

But the Channel 5-televised fight was so competitive that the 34-year-old is adamant he still has plenty to bring to the table at top level.

Hall recovered from a second round knockdown to push the unbeaten American - who is 10 years his junior - all the way over 12 give and take rounds.

And a fight with former opponent Jamie McDonnell is one which still appeals to the Skerne Park man.

Doncaster’s McDonnell beat Hall in a British, European and Commonwealth unification match in 2011 and fights for the WBA world title in Liverpool on November 22.

Hall said: “I can’t finish on that note can I?

“I’m going to have a little break, then sit down with my trainer Paddy Lynch and see where we go from there.

“There’s life in the old dog yet. I’d still like to fight Jamie McDonnell - that would be a great fight.”

Hall suffered his fourth professional defeat with the loss to Caballero.

But such is his resilience that he was never in danger of becoming the Californian boxer’s fifth straight stoppage victim, despite being put on the canvas early in the contest.

“It was a very tough fight and he was the best I’ve ever fought, I think,” Hall said.

“He was tactical, but I pushed him right to the limit.

“The judges’ scoring was miles off. I thought it was very close and the knockdown was the difference between winning and losing.

“I was the aggressor and even he said I’d given him his hardest fight.”