LEE Churcher couldn’t help but feel a certain degree of frustration after capturing the vacant WBF Intercontinental middleweight title.

The Newport boxer was thrilled to seize the belt with a second-round knockout of Hungarian Balazs Horvath at Pill Millennium Centre on Saturday night.

However, the contest wasn’t what Churcher had hoped for and the 35-year-old Welshman didn’t think much of his higher-ranked opponent, who he described as “like Bambi on ice”.

“It’s quite frustrating if I’m honest,” said Churcher. “Even though I’ve won and I’m buzzing with that, it’s frustrating because I wanted to stand there and have a tear up.

“I was looking forward to the challenge against someone higher ranked than me to know where I am in boxing, but I’m still on the fence about that.

“He was a very strange opponent, very unorthodox, but I think he only got me with a jab.

“He came out too eager and it certainly disrupted his boxing, his footwork was abysmal, he was like Bambi on ice.

“I’m buzzing with the win, I just wanted more of a test.”

Churcher continued: “My kids will be buzzing, the crowd was buzzing, I’m absolutely over the moon, and at 35 I’ve got to be happy with that.”

Former Welsh champion Churcher, who has now won his last seven fights, also revealed that he broke his right hand in training less than three weeks ago.

“I’m carrying a shed load of injuries and my training for this fight was quite emotional,” he added.

“I pulled my back, I did one elbow, I did the other elbow, and I broke my hand, so to get a win is absolutely amazing.

“I’m as fit as they come but it’s my body, it’s a rust bucket. I’ve got a Jaguar engine in a Ford Cortina.”

Churcher floored Horvath in the first round after the Hungarian had been down twice through a slip and then a push by the Newport man.

Horvath never looked at ease and when he hit the canvas again in the second, a Churcher uppercut doing the damage this time, the writing was on the wall.

And the fight was over moments later as a short right from the home favourite proved too much for Horvath.

Churcher will take a well-earned rest now but has his sights set on either Craig Docherty or Chas Symonds for his next fight.

Docherty and Symonds meet for the vacant WBF world super-welterweight title in Scotland later this month.

Meanwhile, Newport’s Adam Cueto, Rikki Fortuna, Martyn Silbor and Gareth Hurley all claimed victories in semi-pro fights on Saturday night.