by David P. Greisman

The fight between Andy Lee and Peter Quillin was a close and entertaining battle, one in which Lee hit the canvas twice and Quillin went down once. One judge saw it 113-112 for Lee. Another had it 113-112 for Quillin. The third had it even, making it a draw. It seems rational, then, that the two should fight again.

Both men are open to it.

“I train for anybody. I train to fight anybody. Do I want to fight a rematch? Yeah,” Quillin said at the post-fight press conference. “Tell me how much money’s involved and let’s do it.”

Said Lee: “If my next fight is Peter Quillin, so be it. And it should be in Ireland because he has an Irish last name — and maybe he can find some ancestors there.”

But Quillin would rather remain on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

“We made a lot of money fighting in Brooklyn,” Quillin said. “This is a new arena. He came here with the belt to fight me here. This is where it’s at right now to come fight. We was on nationwide TV, bro, for free.”

A rematch wouldn’t necessarily look the same as the first installment, he said.

“The chemistry of the fight is how it panned out. If me and him had the opportunity to fight again, it might be different because we know each other now,” Quillin said. “We got history.”

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