{"id":218499,"date":"2025-10-16T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:52:10","slug":"ibf-orders-liam-paro-vs-paddy-donovan-eliminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218499\/","title":{"rendered":"IBF orders Liam Paro vs Paddy Donovan eliminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Multiple outlets report that the IBF has ordered Liam Paro to face Paddy Donovan in a welterweight final eliminator, with Donovan <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/liam-paro-paddy-donovan-meet-ibf-welterweight-mandatory-position\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling it<\/a> the result of a successful appeal on the part of manager Keith Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Donovan (14-2, 11 KO) has dropped two straight to now-reigning titlist Lewis Crocker, but if anyone deserves some slack on that front, it\u2019s him. The first bout saw him put the hurt on Crocker before getting disqualified for a shot after the bell, which the crowd noise prevented the fighters from hearing, and while he hit the deck twice in their rematch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/110120\/lewis-crocker-edges-controversial-split-decision-over-paddy-donovan-to-win-ibf-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly everyone but two of the judges had him earning the decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple outlets report that the IBF has ordered Liam Paro to face Paddy Donovan in a welterweight final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-218499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}