Gavin returned from Beijing with thoughts of what might have been

Frankie Gavin has told the BBC he is likely to stay amateur for the foreseeable future, despite offers from top professional promoters.

Reigning lightweight world champion Gavin failed to make weight at the Olympics and returned home before the boxing tournament had even begun.

"There's no-one to blame - it just happened," Gavin told BBC 5 Live.

"I've had offers, from Frank Warren and Oscar de la Hoya. But there's a good chance of me staying amateur."

His next goal, he confirmed, was to fight in the European Championships in Liverpool in November, where he hopes to fight in the 64kg light-welterweight category.

And he did not rule out featuring in the 2012 Olympics, saying: "I'll be 26 but I'm a young 22 now and I don't get into wars so 2012 is a realistic chance if the right offers are put on the table."

Gavin refused to apportion blame for his failure to make the weight in Beijing, despite suggestions he would have made �1m if he had won Olympic gold and then embarked on a professional career.

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Describing what happened in the last days before the Olympics began, he explained: "I thought the weight was going to come off but the last three or four pounds were not moving at all.

"In the end I did a really big session and lost a quarter of a pound. I knew it wasn't going to come.

"And I had a talk with Terry [Edwards, GB Olympic boxing coach] and he said I think that's it there.

"At first I said no but then I thought about it a bit more and thought he was right.

"This year I've been walking around three or four kilos heavier than I was last year. There was nothing I could do - maybe if I chopped off my leg or something - but there was nothing on me at all.

"There's no-one to blame, it's just what happens in life."

Ahead of the Olympics, Gavin had seen the nutritionist famous for regulating Ricky Hatton's weight, Kerry Kayes, and admitted there had been real worries he might not reach the required 60kg mark long before the team left for the holding camp in Macau.

"Maybe [Kerry] could have tried to do something different," said the Birmingham fighter, who became England's first ever amateur world champion in Chicago last year.

"I was struggling really bad to make 64kg, then it was 63, 62, 61 and-a-half, but then I would have a little drink and it would shoot right up."