Jack Cattell (31-2, 13 KO) won a seven-call technical decision due to a bad cut due to the clash of heads against IBF Inter-Continental Driight master Harlem Eubank (21-1, 9 KO) on Saturday evening at Manchester Arena in Manchester in England. The fight was stopped in one second in the seventh round by the Ring Doctor Council.
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In the first three rounds it was close, and Cattell had an advantage. In the fourth round, Eubank had his best round, which makes him close.
In the sixth round they both went to the canvas for the second time. The remaining half a minute, the start of the head caused a nasty cutting of the right eyebrow Cattell. Eubank had a compact cut on his forehead.
Judge Williams finally came when Eubank hit Catteralla at the back of his head. Cattell went to the corner, where his corner tried to put a towel on cut when Judge Williams forced him to continue. Soon after, Catterall threw Eubanks on the canvas. Finally, Eubanks, feeling he won the fight, jumped on the ropes in the corner.
Between the rounds, the ring doctor checked the cut on Cattell. After a second at the beginning of the seventh judge, Bob Williams, called Halt.
The results are 69-65, 69-66 and 69-66.
In the main support, the former world champion of the IBF Olympic and IBO and IBO Super Feather, weighing Joe Cordina (18, 9 Kos), defeated Jaret Gonzalez (17-2, 13 Kos) by a unanimous decision to win a free global title of WBO lightweight.
In the first round, Cordina returned from her first loss in her last fight and fourteen months of inaction. He controlled the first round, but Gonzalez held his own. In the last minute of the second round of Cordin, she shook Gonzalez with her right chin.
In the third and fourth rounds, Cordina won all four rounds, leaving the strenuous Gonzalez. In the fifth minute Gonzalez landed on the fear of blows, being the best crime so far. At the end of the round of Cordin, she pulled him out.
In the last seconds of the seventh round a pair of right mountains from Cordina to the middle role of Gonzalez. One of the commentators was repeated by Quiros, although presented as Gonzalez, and on the Gonzalez screen.
In the eighth and ninth Cordina won, but Gonzalez, in her first ten -year -old, turned out to be a good opponent of Cordina.
The results are 100-90, 99-91 and 98-92. Marcus McDonald was a judge.
The lithe Aqib Fiaz (14-1, 2 KO) defeated Alex Murphy (13-2) a 10-round unanimous decision in full fight.
In the first round it was all action. In the second round, Fiaz continued to press Murphy, who counted him well. In the third round, Murphy landed to the right in the last minute, causing a fiaza cut under his left eye.
In the fourth round it went there back, and Fiaz wounded Murphy in the last minute with a shot, just to make Murphy count his own shot. In the sixth round of the Right of Murphy and the stab worked all the time. At the last moment Fiaz landed well in combinations and a left hook.
In the seventh round, in the last minute, Murphy started attacking without moving around the ring and shooting well against Fiaz. In the ninth round Fiaz seems to still work on the body, because Murphy’s range brings him coverage, because it looks like he was ahead of us, but the draw would not surprise anyone.
In the tenth and final round they both continued it, just like in the first round. Fiaz working in the body and counteracting Murphy will make it complex to call judges.
Then they both talked to each other, waiting for the decision. Fiaz attracts it to my surprise.
The results were 97–93, 96-94 and 96-95. Steve Gray was a judge.
Heavyweight heavyweight Pat Brown (3-0, 3 KO) stopped Lewis Oakford (6-3, 2 KO) at 2:06 the first of the planned eight rounds.
In the first round everything was brown, because Oakford wounded seriously in the last minute, forcing judge John Latam to stop.
Junior Middle Wweight Southpaw William Croll (8-1, 6 KO) was knocked out by Southpaw Fraser Wilkinson (12-2, 3 KO) at 1:07 six of the planned eight rounds.
In the fifth round, Wilkinson dropped Crolla on the 8th Hold from judge John Latam.
Super Bantamweight Skye Nicolson (13-1, 2 KO) knocked out Carl “La Princess” Camila Campos Gonzales (9-4, 8 KO) at 1:21 of the second round of the 8 × 2 rounds planned.
In the second round, Nicolson wounded Gonzales, forcing judge John Latam to stop.
The super weight of the average Niall Brown (16-0, 6 KO) stopped Victor Ionascu (14-7, 10 KO) at the end of the fourth round of the planned six rounds.
In the first round Brown dropped Ionascu. Judge Steve Gray gave an 8-circuit. In the fourth, again Brown dropped Ionascu on another 8-Hold from judge Gray.
Heavyweight Leo Atang (1-0, 1 KO) was knocked out by Milena Paunova (7-16, 5 KO) at 2:29 of the first round of four rounds.
In the first round, in the last minute, he dropped Paunov, forcing judge Steve Gray to stop.
Alfie Middlemiss (4-0) featherweight defeated Mohammed Wako (1-6) with a four-curing decision.
In the first round, because of the collision of heads, Middlemiss was cut to the left eye.
Terence Crawford faced and defeated 42 different opponents during a 17-year career, but super-middleweight icon Carl Froch believes that there is one welterweight who would have put an end to Crawford’s unbeaten streak if they were to meet in their primes.
Crawford became the first post-war boxer to claim the undisputed title in three separate weight divisions last September; a run which began as a super-lightweight in 2015 by defeating Thomas Dulorme, then unifying against Viktor Postol before halting Julius Indongo in an undisputed title showdown.
‘Bud’ then moved on to the welterweight scene and knocked out Jeff Horn to capture the WBO world title on his 147lb debut, making five defences of the title before colliding with fierce rival and three-belt unified titleholder, Errol Spence Jr, in 2023.
In a unforgettable fight, Crawford brutally beat Spence down in an authoritative ninth-round stoppage win to capture the undisputed welterweight throne. Talk then turned to an unprecedented three-weight move up to super-middleweight to take on Canelo Alvarez.
After stopping off at super-welterweight to dethrone Israil Madrimov on his way up, Crawford debuted at super-middleweight in a challenge for Canelo’s undisputed crown and outboxed the Mexican superstar in an iconic win last year, hanging up the gloves three months later.
Despite those legendary achievements, Froch picked Floyd Mayweather Jr to come out on top in a potential fantasy fight against the Omaha southpaw, in an episode of ‘Froch on Fighting’.
Mayweather’s achievements speak for themselves, retiring with a perfect 50-0 unbeaten record after claiming world honours in five divisions, with his most impressive reign coming at 147lbs, where he defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather has been rumoured to make a comeback, but while there would be huge finances that would be on offer, Crawford has revealed that he would have no interest in ending his retirement for a bout with ‘TBE’, believing that the 49-year-old is ‘old’ and ‘done’.
Terence Crawford has been hailed by many as the best fighter of this generation following his retirement, and now WBC welterweight title hopeful Conor Benn has shared how he thinks ‘Bud’ would have fared against six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya.
Crawford became boxing’s sixth five-division world champion with an iconic win over Canelo Alvarez back in September; joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in that elite and exclusive club reserved only for legends of the sport.
Of that group, only De La Hoya and Pacquiao have gone on to conquer a sixth division, with De La Hoya’s 2004 WBO middleweight world title win over Felix Sturm seeing the Californian become the first boxer to ever become a sextuple champion.
Crawford could have joined ‘’The Golden Boy’ and ‘Pac-Man’ in achieving that feat, having been offered a middleweight world title shot during the aftermath of his triumph over Canelo late last year – a proposal which later fell apart due to a failed doping test by Janibek Alimkhanuly.
Continuing the praise that the Omaha-born southpaw has received since announcing his retirement last December, Benn told Daily Mail Boxing that he would favour the undefeated star to get the better of De La Hoya, if they were to meet in their primes.
Benn also went on to predict that Crawford would retain his unbeaten streak against other greats of the game, picking him to come out on top against each of Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran.
Top trainer and former world champion Robert Garcia has considered the outcome of a fantasy showdown between Terence Crawford and Manny Pacquiao.
The two generational greats reportedly came close to squaring off in 2021, back when Crawford was the WBO welterweight champion and ‘Pac Man’ held the WBA title.
Their unification match never materialised, though, as Pacquiao was scheduled to face Errol Spence Jr before ‘The Truth’ pulled out with a torn retina.
Instead, the Filipino legend ended up losing his WBA title to Yordenis Ugas at a stage when, while still serviceable, he was quite clearly past his best.
Crawford, meanwhile, was hitting top form around this time, just a few fights away from producing arguably a career-best performance against Spence.
He did, of course, manage to stop his welterweight rival in nine rounds, before moving up to 168lbs and becoming a three-division undisputed champion by dethroning Canelo Alvarez last September.
Based on those two performances, coach Garcia has told ESNEWS that he would favour ‘Bud’ to defeat even a prime version of Pacquiao.
“The Crawford that beat Spence – and the Crawford that beat Canelo – would probably beat Manny.”
While Crawford’s prime almost certainly came during his run of eight stoppages at welterweight, it is harder to pinpoint when Pacquiao ultimately reached his peak.
In terms of his most destructive performance at world level, however, many will point towards his second-round finish over Ricky Hatton in 2009.
While facing the ‘Hitman’ at 140lbs, Pacquiao would cement himself as a formidable welterweight champion soon after, dethroning Miguel Cotto with a 12th-round stoppage for the WBO title.
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