Brighton fighter Mathew Ellis has vowed to return to the ring after his comeback in Glasgow on Monday night ended after three rounds.

Trainer Ronnie Davies was forced to retire his man prior to the fourth round after Ellis dislocated both shoulders as he topped the bill on the show at the Hilton Hotel.

It was Ellis' first fight since losing to Olympic heavyweight champion Audley Harrison in May and represented a new beginning with the 29-year-old dropping down to cruiserweight for the clash with Liverpool's Tony Moran.

Ellis, who comes from Blackpool but is now based in Brighton with Davies, said: "I hope to have an operation in the next ten days.

"I have seen a specialist and have a rotating cuff injury. I will then take six weeks off and hope to return to training in January.

"That's boxing for you. It is like any other sport and all top athletes and footballers get injured but I will be back.

"It was very upsetting especially after all the hard training I had put in. I never had this problem until I put one shoulder out against Audley Harrison.

"I could not believe it. I won the first round but one shoulder went in the second round, then the other in the third. Ronnie refused to let me go out and basically you cannot fight without using either arm."

Davies said: "Mathew is so unlucky but he will come back.

"I am not a fan of weight training and his past trainers have made him use the weights to build him up to heavyweight when it is not his natural division. They have ruined him."