This past Friday night at Meadowbank, super bantamweight Lee McGregor (12-1-1, 9 KOs) suffered the first defeat of his pro career, when he dropped a twelve round unanimous decision to Mexico's Erik Robles.

Their fight was fireworks from start to finish, with Robles throwing punches from bell to bell. McGregor would often engage with him on the inside, but that worked to Robles' advantage.

The judges saw it 115-113, 116-113 and 115-113.

Robles walked away with the vacant IBO world title at 122-pounds.

McGregor, who indicates that there were issues leading up to the fight, would like to set the record straight in a rematch.

"There were a few issues going into that fight that a lot of people don't know about and I was nowhere near 100 percent," McGregor explained to the Edinburgh Evening News.

"You need to be 100 percent going into a fight like that. But it was a fantastic fight, one I loved being involved in and I'm glad the fans enjoyed it. I know for a fact, that once I get these issues fixed, then I can beat that guy. The rematch is something I want, without a shadow of a doubt. If you take away that tick-over fight back in March, I had 13 months of inactivity, so momentum wasn't on my side, and nobody would have blamed me if I had turned it down.

"But I proved once again on Friday night, the warrior that I am. I need to sit down with the team, but I want to put it right. How good that fight was, is making me really hungry for the rematch and it's going to be huge and bigger than it was on Friday. This was my first big show in Edinburgh and look at what I did. The result didn't go my way but please believe me when I say that I will put it right and I will get that belt."