Lewis Edmondson retained his Commonwealth title with a comfortable but uninspiring unanimous decision win over Oluwatosin Kejawa tonight at the Bournemouth International Centre, with the scorecards reading 118-110, 119-109 and 120-110 in favour of the champion.

The fight took place on the undercard of Ryan Garner-Salvador Jimenez, which is being shown on TNT Sports in the UK and DAZN in the US.

The first round started cagily one but Edmondson (11-0, 3 KOs) quickly gained control with some solid right hands which stumbled his Nigerian opponent.

Towards the end of the round, though, Kejawa (11-1, 5 KOs) looked badly wobbled after Edmondson took it upon himself to land a hard right hand to the back of his man's head. The referee had a word with the champ, but elected not to take a point away.

Much of the same dominance followed for Edmondson in the second round, though Kejawa was active himself, landing a couple of well-timed jabs and a left hook.

Southampton native Edmondson started using his double jab at the start of the third and by this point, Kejawa had yet to offer anything for the home favourite to worry about.

The middle rounds were fairly pedestrian; Kejawa not proving to be the test some hoped he'd be, and Edmondson struggling to land something that would really trouble his opponent.

Entering the seventh, it was clear the fight had got away from Kejawa, but in the second half of the round he had his best period of the fight, landing hard shots with Edmondson backed up on the ropes.

The improvements continued for Kejawa in the eighth, who brought the fight from long to short-to-mid-range, landing cuffing blows and uppercuts on Edmondson. In the ninth and tenth, the energy sapped from the fight. Edmondson had resorted to boxing from long-range, and Kejawa was now struggling to cut the ring off.

Edmondson comfortably finished the fight by landing potshots here and there throughout the 12th, with Kejawa left wondering what could have been had he stepped on the acceleration a little sooner in the fight. 

There'll be talk of a domestic dust-up with fellow Queensberry stablemate Ezra Taylor next, who sat ringside and looked unimpressed while watching Edmondson's performance unfold on the coast.