Melvin is set to move to the super-feathers

Scott Melvin…making lightweight is proving too easy

MIDLANDS champ Scott Melvin looks poised to leave the lightweight division.

The Chelmsley Wood prospect’s team are considering a drop to junior-lightweight (a division referred to as super-feather in the modern game).

It’s a shift from 9st 9lbs to 9st 4lbs.

“He’s making the championship weight too easily,” said manager Jon Pegg.

“We’re not going to do anything silly. We’ll try Scott at 9st 7lbs and see how that goes.”

Melvin, trained at Birmingham’s Eastside gym, was to have made the first defence of his Midlands belt on GBM’s huge Coventry show staged earlier this month.

Opponent Ameen Khalid pulled out days before the fight and Scott, instead, was handed a routine six rounder against Brayan Mairena. The 23-year-old pushed aside his disappointment and looked sharp in taking a landslide points decision.

“Scott was so professional,” added Pegg. “A lot of people would have gone in there in a mood and come out swinging. Scott boxed well.”

Melvin does look an exceptional talent. He’s lost only one of 10 – and that was a meaningless, three round split decision in a Boxxer tournament.

He underlined his potential last September by winning the vacant title in an= thriller with Mykey Lee-Broughton. Trailing on points, Melvin stopped the fellow prospect in the final round.

You certainly can’t accuse Scott’s handlers of wrapping him in cotton wool. Ameen Khalid would’ve been the fourth unbeaten boxer he’s faced.

That shows they’re willing to let a boxer who delights in the ring nickname “Terrier” off the leash.