Coleraine boxing coach Ray McIntosh said the event, the Country Versus City Bouts, was a huge success.

It involved four south-west boxers teaming up with Mount Gambier boxers to take on a group from Adelaide at Mount Gambier's Blue Lake Sports Park.

``We always have to travel to Melbourne for bouts so going to Mt Gambier was a nice change,'' McIntosh said.

``It was good to come up against different boxers.''

Lyndon Edney, in the light-heavyweight division and Donald Jones, in the lightweight, enjoyed unanimous wins in their exhibition bouts while Rohan Eccles was unlucky not to taste success.

``He came last on points but he was fighting South Australia's lightweight champion so I was more than happy with his efforts,'' McIntosh said.

Warrnambool's Tom Boyle, trained by Steve Andrews, was able to come away with a victory in his first-ever bout.

``He was in the super-welterweight division,'' Andrews said.

``He won by a unanimous decision over four rounds.

``It was better than expected seeing as it was his first fight.

``He actually fought like he'd been in five or six.'' McIntosh said the event, the first one held in about 20 years, would most likely become an annual one.

``It was very successful,'' he said. ``And the country ended up beating the city, which was good.''