Joshua Buatsi's majority decision victory over Zach Parker was the most high-profile story to emerge from a busy night of light heavyweight action at Manchester's Co-Op Live Arena on Saturday, but it wasn't the evening's only contentious result.

Around an hour before Buatsi and Parker walked to the ring for their 10-round main event, Troy Jones also found himself on the receiving end of a controversial decision.

Almost everybody in attendance believed Jones (13-2, 6 KOs) had done enough to beat Liam Cameron (24-7-1, 10 KOs) over 10 entertaining rounds. Unfortunately for the 27-year-old light heavyweight from Birmingham, the three ringside judges didn't.

Cameron was awarded a unanimous decision and Jones must now rebuild.

"I thought Troy dominated the first five rounds. I thought he was clearly winning the fight," Jones' trainer Lee Beard, told The Ring.

"Rounds six, seven and eight, he made it a bit more scruffy. There was clashing of heads and stuff like that and then rounds nine and 10, Troy won. I thought he clearly won the fight, probably around seven rounds to three. So did the internet and the viewer's poll on the actual DAZN show itself.

"Everybody knows that Troy won that fight."

Jones hasn't been handed anything. He built a fanbase on local shows, battled his way onto television screens and said 'yes' to every name offered to him.

He put his undefeated record on the line and boxed the highly-touted Ezra Taylor on May 10. Jones more than played his part in a well-fought 10 rounds and made his way to centre ring to find out whether he had done enough to win.

The judges gave him precious little reward for his efforts, handing Taylor a near shutout (100-90, 99-91, 97-93) victory.

Jones kept his mouth shut and waited for the chance to put things right. This time, he listened to the judges' decision fully expecting to have his hand raised.

A year's worth of hard work has paid few dividends.

"[It's the] same as the Taylor fight," Beard said. "10 rounds to nil and nine rounds to one? It wasn't that, that was a close fight.

"This one, he clearly wins the fight and it doesn't go his way. The judging is poor but after the fight, Cameron's manager Lee Eaton said he’d promised Troy a rematch."

Jones may have left Manchester with assurances he will be given another chance but Beard feels that is the very least he deserves.

"He should have been moving on now to the winner of the Brad Rea-Lyndon Arthur [European title] fight or whatever was next. Now, he's got to look at a Cameron rematch, which is what Lee [Eaton] said last night. If that's the case, then I already agreed to that."

"He's put in 12 weeks of hard work and had a cut in his last fight that obviously re-opened.

"These lads are putting all their heart and soul into everything. Everybody knew in the ring. You could see in the body languages who'd won the fight and it's just not good so now we've got to go back to either a rematch or whatever's next."

Cameron has become a fan favourite over the past two years.

Fans bought into his story, sympathising with the harsh four-year suspension he received after traces of a cocaine metabolite were found in a 2018 post-fight drug test and also how he's overcome family tragedy and depression to fight his way back to relevance.

His controversial rivalry with Olympic silver medallist Ben Whittaker increased his profile further and a fair number of fans will have watched Saturday's events play out and been pleased to see him receive the rub of the green.

The popular Jones is a big character in his own right and Beard doesn't want him to become a part of Cameron's story.

"Troy had a very difficult upbringing in regards to his boxing. He was a bit wayward and stuff like that, got his own story to tell," he said.

"Stories shouldn't win fights but he's had a tough time of things himself. The problem is, he shouldn't need a rematch.

"He won the fight. He should have been moving on from that fight and that's no disrespect to nobody. I’m just speaking on regards to what I saw and my boxer, and that's it."