While Amir Khan was impressive in defeating Oisin Fagan in less than two rounds with some slick movement and powerful combination punching last Saturday night at the Excel Arena in London, it has since emerged that in the first knockdown Fagan suffered a spiral break of his left fibula as he fell that also caused ankle and knee ligament damage.

The Dubliner was effectively fighting on a broken leg and still brought the fight to his opponent.

Fagan had no qualms that the overhand right that caused the first knockdown put him off balance and was enough to put him down, but he was straight back up and the pain was emanating not from the headshot, but from the leg break.

A press release Sunday night stated that Fagan suffered a broken ankle, but the fighter told the Irish Voice Monday that the diagnosis was far more serious than initially thought.

"It is worse than we expected too and it might need to be operated on. It's a break in the fibula, a spiral break - the worst kind of break that you can get and I am disgusted with myself," said Fagan in Dublin.

"I am so proud to have never been knocked out before, and I wanted to keep on going, but he was such a great mover that every time I had to reset myself and put my foot down I was in agony. It was like being Bambi in there. I don't want to take anything away from Amir Khan - he's a great fighter and a gentleman."

One of Fagan's doctors told him he would be out of training for three months, which the fitness fanatic is taking badly. He is seeing a specialist this week, and there is a possibility that pins and a plate might have to be inserted to heal the leg.

What pains him more is that fans did not see what he is capable of. The 34-year-old would love to get another chance to fight Khan, but it could be up to six months before Fagan can get back in the ring again.

" I don't have my hopes up for a rematch as he is not going to gain anything from it. At the same time I would love a rematch but I will continue on, of course, with my career," said Fagan.

"I know I am going to come back stronger than ever. It's just in my blood now. I really need to show the public that that wasn't me fighting in there the other night.

"I don't want people to have that image of me. I have never been stopped in two rounds in my life. The only time a fight of mine has been stopped was because I had five broken bones in my face and there was a lot of blood. The referee called it with 10 seconds left in the fight, and I was still coming forward."

While it was a bad night for Fagan in London, two other Irish fighters campaigning there over the weekend delivered career best performances.

Derry native light welterweight Paul McCloskey (18-0,8 KOs) won the British title when he defeated Colin Lynes in Essex Friday night. Lynes retired on his stool at the end of the ninth after being dominated by the southpaw, who can look to forward to a possible european or world title challenge in 2009.

A fellow northerner, heavyweight Martin Rogan (11-0) from Belfast, claimed the biggest scalp of his career when he defeated 2000 Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison (23-4) on the same card as Oisin Fagan.

Rogan, who was giving up height and experience to Harrison, won 96-95 on referee Ian John-Lewis' scorecard and can also look forward to a big fight in the New Year.