Gavin Gwynne believes that the time is now right for he and Cameron Vuong to renew hostilities.

Last November, Vuong took a huge leap up the levels and faced former British, Commonwealth and European lightweight champion, Gwynne, in just his seventh professional fight.

The 139lb catchweight fight lived up to it’s pre-fight billing as a battle of youth versus experience and speed versus strength. 22 year-old Vuong started sharply but Gwynne steadily increased his grip on the fight and appeared unfortunate to drop a controversial but unanimous decision.

There were vague discussions about a rematch but Vuong decided to move on and reignite his long running feud with Jordan Flynn. Gwynne has been left to scratch around for other opportunities.

Gwynne, 17-4-1 (5 KOs), still has a steadfast belief that he won the first fight and now that both he and Vuong, 8-0 (4 KOs), have open diaries, he insists a return should happen.

“It's got to happen,” the 34 year-old Welshman told The Ring.

“He's got to run it back because in a lot of people's opinions, I won the fight. In my opinion, I won the fight and won it quite comfortably. The first couple of rounds was close and then I pulled away and then it was like, I'd say, six rounds to four at best for him.”

Last Friday night, Gwynne sat down to watch Vuong’s seventh round stoppage of Flynn.

Vuong dealt with a predictably quick and ambitious start from Flynn but began to impose himself as the fight wore on and eventually proved himself to be too big, too quick and just too good for his longtime rival.

As impressive as Vuong was once he did click into gear, Gwynne didn’t see anything which would cause him to lose any sleep. In fact, he recognized a few familiar flaws.

“To be honest with you, going off that performance on the weekend he's gonna have to up it again because the first couple of rounds, he lost again.,” he said.

“I think he's too easy to hit if I'm quite honest and I think in the first fight I had with him, I gave him a little bit too much respect. When it happens again now, I know he can't punch, so that's one thing that I was saying to Gary [Lockett, his trainer] after the fight. He couldn't punch.

“It was just the speed he was delivering the shots. He was catching me and obviously he was making the judges think that he was catching me with big shots, but they weren’t."

Before the fight with Vuong, Gwynne held a strong belief that his ringcraft and relentless style of fighting would prove too much for the younger man but he admits that it was impossible to totally ignore the talk about Vuong’s talent and potential.

Gwynne is a respectful fighter and acknowledges that Vuong will have benefitted and improved from sharing the ring with him but he also insists that he too will be better for the experience.

He went into the first fight thinking he could win, he would prepare for a rematch knowing he can.

“I know what to prepare for now. Obviously, he's going to be a bit better - I give him the respect - but, obviously, I'm going to be better as well,” he said.

“I get more time to work with Gary on things. Whereas we only had six months last time we'll have about a year of working together, which is always good as well.

“I'm confident in my abilities and myself. I can go in there and get the job done again because even though I got a loss on my record, I took that as a win because the only three people in that arena had me losing it and that was the judges, which gave him the win.”

Earlier this year, Vuong’s manager, Sam Jones, told The Ring that he didn’t believe Vuong had been given the respect he deserved for taking on Gwynne in the first place and that whilst he wasn’t against putting his man into a rematch, Vuong’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, would have to pay him a lot of money to do so.

Gwynne understand’s Jones’ point of view but knows that a rematch would be a high profile, lucrative fight for both men. He also wonders if Vuong’s own fighting pride may well override any other plans his team may have.

“I think they’ve got to because on all of their posts you've got English people, you've got Welsh people, you've got Scottish, Irish people writing, ‘You’ve got to give Gavin the rematch.’” Gwynne said.

“So I think, even for himself. I know - as a fighter - he probably, in his head, thinks he didn't win the fight because you know if you won a fight or not.

“He was just happy to finish the ten rounds. He was shattered after six rounds. Do you know what I mean? I just think they've got to take it otherwise they're conning the public.

“I'm a nightmare for anyone when I'm in there. I'm an absolute nuisance. No one likes fighting me so I don't blame him that he wants more money.”