In Los Angeles, undefeated Terence Crawford beat Israil Madrimov to win the WBA’s super-welterweight title.
MONAGHAN’S STEVIE MCKENNA stretched his unbeaten professional record to 15-0 and won the WBC’s International Silver welterweight title in a three-round epic against Joe Laws in Barnsley on Saturday evening.
With that frenetic early pace unrelenting, McKenna recovered and asserted himself in the third where he knocked Laws down three times before the Newcastle man’s corner threw in the towel. Crawford, an undisputed champion at welterweight and light-welterweight, took the World Boxing Association crown on judges’ scores of 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113.
But Crawford’s streak of 11 consecutive stoppage wins over the past eight years was snapped, Madrimov taking him the distance for the first time since Ukraine’s Viktor Postol in 2016.
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