The winner will also become the mandatory challenger for Bruce ‘Shu Shu’ Carrington’s WBC featherweight title.

The pair first met in October and boxed to an entertaining draw in Glasgow.

Collins mixed boxing and fighting well for seven rounds, hurting Lorente (20-0-3, 8 KOs) and amassing a decent lead. Aware the fight was slipping away, the European champion upped his output and boxed with real urgency.

Rather than relying on his skills and picking and choosing his moments to engage the Spaniard, Collins tried to answer every success.

After twelve rounds, most felt that the 29-year-old Bearsden southpaw had done just enough to edge a close fight. Only one of the ringside judges agreed and Collins had to settle for a frustrating split draw.

“I don't even remember the last time I didn't win a fight,” Collins (17-0-1, 8 KOs) told The Ring.

“I was a bit gutted to be honest. It took me a while even to get back to training, just because I was frustrated. That was an eliminator last time as well so I'm like, ‘The next one could have been a world title’.

“I couldn't help but feel like I blew it, but I never blew it. I was in a funny place where I'm like, ‘I feel like - and everybody else feels like - I should have won that so how should I feel?’”

When a result doesn’t go their way, it is very easy for a fighter to concentrate on the things they did right and throw around blame and excuses for the things that went wrong.

Collins could have complained about the judges. He could have dismissed Lorente as lucky. He could have reeled off a list of injuries.

That isn’t Collins’ way. His annoyance stems from the fact that he allowed himself to get caught up in the moment and stray from the gameplan that brought him so much success over the fight's first half.

“Yeah, definitely just disappointed in myself because like I said in the ring after, I let that slip rather than him being good,” he said.

“I let him look like he was better than what he was because I was trying so hard to get the finish. I was eager to get the finish and put it on a show.

“If I’d just boxed the head off him, it wouldn't even have been that close but I got involved.”

Collins is a razor sharp, clever southpaw with a deep gas tank. He is also a tough man who enjoys a fight. Against Francesco Grandelli in 2024 and Lorente, he allowed the combative side of his character to take over and made things much harder than they needed to be.

He remains unbeaten but with a shot at Carrington’s WBC title at stake, Collins knows that it is time to box with discipline as well as aggression.

“It's not like a lack of experience thing. I don't know. My heart took over with being in Scotland, headlining and the crowd,” he said.

“I think the only good thing that kind of comes of that was that I put on that entertaining a show that the fans and people watching will want to see me again. This time, they already know I can do that because they've seen it before, so now, it's like, ‘OK, I need to show this side of me, where actually, I'm just a good boxer.’”