SCOTT Quigg’s trainer has repeated his call for promoter Ricky Hatton to arrange him a last-minute bout on the undercard of Amir Khan’s upcoming fight in Las Vegas.

The boxing season ends in July, but Joe Gallagher believes his young protege must be allowed to fit in another fight before taking on Rendall Munroe in a rematch of Saturday’s abandoned WBA interim super-bantamweight title showdown.

And he says that a six-rounder on the Amir Khan v Danny Garcia bill in Vegas on July 14 would be the ideal solution for the 23-year-old Bury boxer, to ensure that the preparation he put into Saturday’s fight is not wasted.

“Scott has got a lot of pent-up frustration that he must be allowed to channel in the right way,” said Gallagher. “He is itching to fight again as soon as possible and I have to look after his best interests. I don’t want to see him walking around all summer like a bear with a sore head.”

Quigg’s WBA title fight with Munroe at Manchester Velodrome was declared a technical draw after 43 seconds of the third round when an accidental clash of heads opened up a deep cut over his opponent’s right eye. The 32-year-old Leicester southpaw had to have nine stitches in the wound and will not be able to resume sparring for at least two months. Hatton Promotions want to organise a rematch for September or October and a spokesman said that, while a fight for Quigg on the Khan undercard was not impossible, it was “unrealistic”.

However, Gallagher is not giving up the ghost.

“In my experience, Rendall’s cut won’t be healed properly in time for a fight in the autumn.

“I can’t see it happening until the end of the year, around December,” he said. “I know that Ricky Hatton’s promotions company have a very good relationship with Amir Khan’s promoters and with Oscar De La Hoya, who is putting on the Khan fight in Las Vegas, so there are avenues to explore there. I think it’s time for Ricky to call in a favour.”

Another alternative, according to Gallagher, would be for Quigg to make a defence of his British super-bantamweight title at Bury Leisure Centre in July.

But the chance to appear on a top Vegas bill would be a small consolation for the Bury boxer, who was left “absolutely devastated” by Saturday’s anti-climax.

“I feel like I have been robbed,” said Quigg. “I want to be world champion and this was the step to go on to bigger and better things. It’s gutting because those plans are now on hold.

“I knew that I was going to win the fight – I doubt Rendall would have lasted six rounds, the way things were shaping up.

“I was moving and making him miss. He was windmilling and I was making him look daft.”