{"id":668845,"date":"2026-05-13T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668845\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:42:08","slug":"lewis-crocker-vs-liam-paro-date-location-for-ibf-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668845\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker vs Liam Paro: Date, location for IBF title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lewis Crocker will defend his IBF welterweight title against Liam Paro on June 24 in Tennyson, Australia, a suburb of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No Limit Boxing will promote the bout at Pat Rafter Arena, which is center court at the Queensland Tennis Centre, which can hold about 7,000 at maximum seating capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crocker (22-0, 11 KO) won the vacant IBF belt last September in Belfast, beating Paddy Donovan by split decision in a rematch of a very controversial disqualification from March 2025. The 29-year-old will go on the road to make his first defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Paro (27-1, 16 KO) is best known for his upset win over Subriel Matias in 2024, which netted Paro the IBF super lightweight title. He lost the belt six months later in his first defense against Richardson Hitchins, both fights taking place in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since moving up in weight, Paro is 2-0, and his win last September over David Papot came at the same venue where he will face Crocker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On paper, seems like a good and competitive matchup, and will be a real Wednesday morning treat for those in the United States who want to watch it live, assuming we get an outlet to do that. Prime Video may be the most likely candidate to pick up coverage in the States, as PBC are involved and listed on the fight poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker will defend his IBF welterweight title against Liam Paro on June 24 in Tennyson, Australia, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-668845","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\/668845","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=668845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}