{"id":34396,"date":"2025-09-14T05:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/crocker-conquers-donovan-and-wins-world-welterweight-title-in-belfast\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:40:44","slug":"crocker-conquers-donovan-and-wins-world-welterweight-title-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/crocker-conquers-donovan-and-wins-world-welterweight-title-in-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocker Conquers Donovan and Wins World Welterweight Title in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0913%2Fr1545019_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nLewis Crocker won the IBF world welterweight title by defeating Paddy Donovan in a split decision in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this Saturday.\n\nTwo judges favored Crocker (22-0, 11 KOs) with scores of 114-112 and 114-113, while the third judge saw Donovan (14-2, 11 KOs) win by 115-111.\n\nUnlike their first encounter, which was a match full of action and controversy, the rematch at Windsor Park was more strategic, with Crocker prevailing thanks to two knockdowns.\n\nDonovan showed greater activity in the first two rounds, looking comfortable in the third until Crocker connected a left hook that sent him to the canvas for the first time.\n\nDonovan, who got up quickly, kept his composure before both exchanged hard blows in the fourth round, igniting the fight.\n\nIn the fifth round, Crocker again chose the perfect moment to connect another left hook, knocking Donovan down for the second time.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#\">McCann defeats Radomska in her professional debut<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\">Joshua targets Fury and plans his return<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\">Parker warns Wardley about the levels in boxing<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nCrocker boxed intelligently, keeping a more active Donovan at bay and doing enough to secure the title.\n\nIn this highly anticipated rematch, which awarded the IBF welterweight title, after Jaron &#8220;Boots&#8221; Ennis vacated the belt to move up a division, around 20,000 fans gathered at Windsor Park to witness the first world title fight between Irishmen.\n\nDonovan was disqualified in the first fight for hitting Crocker after the bell at the end of the eighth round.\n\nThis time, there was no interruption, and Crocker, who lives a few minutes from the stadium, took the victory.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Crocker won the IBF world welterweight title by defeating Paddy Donovan in a split decision in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this Saturday. Two judges favored Crocker (22-0, 11 KOs) with scores of 114-112 and 114-113, while the third judge saw Donovan (14-2, 11 KOs) win by 115-111. Unlike their first encounter, which was a match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,4594,6306,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-34396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ibf","10":"tag-lewis-crocker","11":"tag-welterweight"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}