By Elliot Foster

Stuart Hall lost to Lee Haskins in controversial circumstances last September –– and now his legal team are aiming to do something about it.

The Darlington bantamweight, 36, was on the wrong end of a points decision when he challenged the Bristol man for the IBF title, a crown he used to hold, on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin’s WBC, IBO and IBF middleweight world title defence over IBF welterweight king Kell Brook at the O2 Arena in London.

Many, both at ringside and from the Sky Sports Box Office TV coverage, felt like the 20-5-2 (7 KOs) fighter did enough to walk away with the belt on the night, but Haskins was awarded the victory by margins of 117-111, 115-113 and 116-112.

Lawyers of Hall, at De Beristain Wallace, who have previously advised superstar fighter Carl Frampton, believe the scores warrant officials to look at staging a rematch and have written to the International Boxing Federation in a bid to get them to grant what would be a third fight between the pair.

“The panel of judges appear to have failed in their duty to score the fight in a diligent and reasonable manner,” a letter from Hall’s lawyers to representatives of the IBF read.

“Our client considers that a diligent and reasonable panel of judges would have decided the fight in his favour.”

Boxing Scene understands that the letter sent to the IBF had weight behind it in the shape of the opinion of former world super-middleweight champion Carl Froch, who insisted “I thought Stuart did more than enough to win”.

Hall, who fears that he could have to wait more than a year before another world title shot comes his way, hopes that a rematch will be granted.

He said: “Not one person has said I lost that fight. He was quiet afterwards because I think he knew he had lost.

“It took me three weeks just to watch the replay and everyone since, including some high people in boxing, have said I was robbed of the result.

“When I’ve said to top trainers that I thought I’d won by a couple of rounds, they’ve replied: ‘And the rest’.”

“If we meet again, it won’t go to the scorecards.

“I know Eddie Hearn is trying to find me other fights but I didn’t know I could contest the result until a month ago. I’m 37 this month so I don’t have all the time in the world but I’m at the peak of my career.”