Crawford retains WBO title with TKO win

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Terence Crawford stopped Shawn Porter successful the 10th circular by method knockout Saturday nighttime successful 1 of the astir anticipated bouts of the year.

Crawford (38-0) retained his WBO welterweight rubric and extended his streak of KOs oregon TKOs to 9 successful beforehand of a sold-out assemblage of 11,568 astatine Mandalay Bay.

Porter (31-4-1), who has risen to go a morganatic top-five welterweight, and was easy the champion hostile of Crawford’s career, displayed relentless aggression successful the aboriginal rounds.

Crawford’s switch-hitting flex didn’t needfully enactment erstwhile helium turned to southpaw aboriginal successful the fight, arsenic Porter adjusted accordingly and connected often.

After playing defence and smiling much than punching, Crawford yet showed signs of discourtesy successful the sixth circular and came live successful the ninth and tenth rounds.

Crawford knocked down Porter aboriginal successful the 10th circular with a near uppercut and past delivered an exclamation constituent with a devastating close hook to the temple.

Porter’s trainer and father, Kenny, threw successful the towel and called for referee Celestino Ruiz to halt the fight.

On the undercard, Esquiva Falcao (29-0) bushed Patrice Volny (16-1) by mode of a method determination astatine 2:18 of the sixth round, aft the combat was stopped due to the fact that of an inadvertent caput butt. Janibek Alimkhanuly (11-0) remained undefeated with an eighth-round TKO implicit Hassan N’Dam (38-6).

Adam Lopez (15-3) and Adan Ochoa (12-2) fought to a no-decision. The bout was stopped owed to a chopped to Ochoa caused by a headbutt. Karlos Balderas (11-1) scored his 2nd consecutive KO triumph with a fourth-round TKO implicit Julio Cortez (15-4). In his pro debut, Tiger Johnson had a fourth-round TKO implicit Antonius Grable (3-2-1).

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