SWINDON boxer Kelly Morgan was left distraught after her first headline show was cancelled but says she is hungrier than ever to claim the WBC Silver middleweight crown.

The 35-year-old should have been walking out at the Oasis Leisure Centre this evening to take on Ghanaian number one Gifty Amanua Ankrah but problems with visas and poor ticket sales saw those hopes dashed on Monday evening.

The cancellation has now got Morgan looking in a different direction, having learned from the experience.

“It is a sick in the pit of your stomach-type feeling right now and there is just no way around that,” she told the Adver.

“There is no easy way to put it, it is disastrous.

“Gifty not being able to get a visa is part of the picture. It shouldn’t have got to that stage because it was a financial issue with her, which should have been resolved immediately and wasn’t.

“It was part of a bigger picture, which I won’t go into out of respect to those involved.

“There is an awful lot going on and I have made the decision that I will be moving on in a different direction and this won’t happen again.

“It is absolutely soul-destroying.

“Since January 6, myself, Ryan Martin (fellow boxer) and Richard Farnan (trainer) have worked hard. I know it is a cliché but we have literally put blood, sweat and tears for three months solid for this fight and for it to be cancelled in the last few days is an absolute shocker.”

With the financial implications of trying to get on another show in the next fortnight too great a burden, Morgan is now targeting a May return when she hopes things will be handled differently.

“I am a few days on and I have reset myself,” she added. “I believe this has happened for a reason and I believe the show in June is going to be like no other “It really is the people around me who have bolstered me and put me in the right frame of mind now.

“I should be a wreck, and I was a wreck, but I am through it now and I am really positive this is going to be a good thing.

“I didn’t think it was possible to be hungrier than what I was for this fight but I am angry hungry now.

“This has to happen and it has to happen with style and with class and with a different approach inside and outside of the ring.

“This has been a tough lesson to learn but it was needed and it has been learnt and I really feel positive to where we are moving onto now.”