Ryan Garner dominated Salvador Jimenez to win the European junior lightweight title on Saturday in Bournemouth, England.

Garner, 17-0 (8 KOs), took the fight to Jimenez and set a relentless pace that his opponent failed to deal with all night. Jimenez, 14-1-1 (6 KOs), hoped that Garner would slow down, but he never did and took the win by a score of 120-108 on all three of the judges' scorecards.

Spain’s Jimenez, 29, came out at the sound of the bell with an aura of confidence about him, and it looked for a moment that Garner was in for a tough night. Garner, however, was having none of it, and quickly landed two sharp right hands.

In the second, Garner, 27, showed his superior speed by beating Jimenez to the punch time and again. Jimenez just couldn’t deal with the speed and tempo that Garner had set, and was outlanded and outclassed.

Garner’s jab was sharp in the third, zapping in before he followed with whipping shots to the body and head of the helpless Jimenez. The Spaniard returned to his corner with a look of desperation on his face, hoping the pace of the fight would drop.

Garner, standing upright in the opposing corner, showed no signs that he would be slowing down anytime soon. He took the fight to Jimenez again in the fourth, but Jimenez had the odd bit of success when the two came up close.

Garner continued to push the pace in the fifth, and in the sixth he switched his attacks to the body. His lightning-quick hands meant he was able to land a flurry of punches to the ribs of Jimenez before the Spaniard could manage to throw one back.

In the seventh, Garner used Jimenez’s body as a punching bag. Jimenez would tuck up and Garner would unload his sharp shots, with no reply. Garner had won every second of every round heading into the eighth, and one could forgive him for taking the round off after the relentless pace he had set all fight, but “The Piranha” continued to hunt his prey.

With a mountain to climb, Jimenez tried his best to land something big in the ninth, but he was stopped in his tracks every time by the relentless Garner. As the pair awaited the 11th session in their corners, Garner was still bouncing on his toes whilst Jimenez sat on his stool looking at the floor.

As the round began, Garner was again relentless, finding a home for punches in the smallest of gaps in Jimenez’s guard. As the championship rounds approached, Garner might have boxed safely to victory with a hefty lead in his bag, but he instead pushed the pace for the remaining two sessions.

The crowd roared at the sound of the final bell – and again, even louder, when Garner was awarded the victory. Garner had not only won the fight, but also had managed to avoid losing a second of any round.

Before then, Lewis Edmondson defended his Commonwealth light heavyweight title with a wide points victory over Oluwatosin Kejawa. Edmondson, 11-0 (3 KOs), was able to work from range with ease at times and took the win by scores of 120-110, 119-109, 118-110.

Edmondson, 29, asserted his dominance in the first and struck Nigeria’s Kejawa, 11-1 (5 KOs), with a hard right hand that caught him off guard. Kejawa seemed to panic, as if he didn’t know what to do, and Edmondson took advantage.

He backed Kejawa, 23, onto the ropes and landed another stiff right hand, and as Kejawa tried to twist away from the oncoming storm he was caught by another right that sent him stumbling into the ropes. The referee, however, ruled that the shot was behind the head and gave Kejawa a vital few seconds to recover. Kejawa finished the round and sheepishly returned to his corner.

His confidence dented from the opener, Kejawa seemed to go into his shell and spent the majority of the second round backing away from Edmondson. The pace seemed to drop in the next two rounds, with Edmondson easily landing his sharp jab on Kejawa and seemingly happy to do so without taking any punishment back.

In the fifth, Kejawa started to find his feet in the contest. The youngster started to let his hands go but was unable to land anything of note, and again Edmondson took the round clearly. The sixth was better, but again Edmondson was able to land his jab and right hand at will.

Heading into the seventh, Kejawa was six rounds down and Edmondson was in cruise control. Kejawa’s corner pleaded with their fighter to up the tempo, but still he couldn’t get things going. In the eighth, Edmondson took his foot of the gas and Kejawa, as a result, started to have success.

Kejawa landed a flurry of shots up close and had his moments as the two came together, but Edmondson was able to outscore Kejawa from range. Kejawa’s corner, impressed with what they had seen in the eighth, demanded their man take the fight to Edmondson in the next session. He listened, and finally brought the heat his corner had been begging for all fight. Edmondson struggled to keep his pressing opponent off, and Kejawa, perhaps for the first time in the fight, took the round.

Edmondson, now tiring, had accepted that he would not be getting the knockout he would have expected after the opener. He went back to fighting at range, flicking his jab in the face of Kejawa before tying him up as he came into land hard shots.

The 11th and 12th followed a similar pattern, and at the sound of the bell, Kejawa seemed frustrated and disappointed in himself after his poor performance. He knew what was coming, and when the wide scores were read out in favor of Edmondson, Kejawa had no complaints.

Earlier in the night, lightweight Liam Dillon beat Mace Ruegg by split decision in a closely fought contest. Dillon, 15-2-1 (3 KOs), claimed the victory, with two cards reading 96-94 (twice) for Dillon and the other 98-92 for Ruegg, 12-1. The then-undefeated Ruegg started the contest well off the back foot, landing his shots before pivoting away from danger.

Dillon sensed the fight was slipping away at the halfway mark and upped the pace. He pressed forwards and forced Ruegg to sit and trade. This played into the hands of Dillon, who was able to outwork and outscore Ruegg to take victory on the cards.