Ryan Garner achieved a childhood dream in his hometown of Southampton with a dominant win over Michael Magnesi in an action-packed fight to claim the WBC “interim” super-featherweight title.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old was the aggressor in the early stages at St Mary’s Stadium and came out on top in a number of brutal close-quarter exchanges.<\/p>\n
After 12 rounds of action, all three judges scored the fight in favour of ‘The Piranha’ – 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109.<\/p>\n
In holding the “interim” belt, Garner is now the number one contender to fight O’Shaquie Foster who holds the full WBC title in the division.<\/p>\n
“If it wasn’t for the football club, the Saints fans and Frank Warren then none of this would be happening,” Garner told DAZN after the fight.<\/p>\n
“It was hard work tonight, [Magnesi] doesn’t stop, he’s an absolute machine and I had to dig deep there at times. <\/p>\n
“I can’t thank everyone enough for coming out to support me today, this wouldn’t be possible without this amazing support.<\/p>\n
“I want the biggest and best fights next, I want to earn as much money as I can for my family, but I’m so grateful to fight here – look at this crowd and atmosphere, Southampton’s the place to be.” <\/p>\n
Garner made his way to the ring inside St Mary’s to a chorus of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, with more than 10,000 supporters roaring him on his way.<\/p>\n
As his name was announced prior to the bout, Garner sported a stern look on his face, shadow boxing before raising his arm to salute the St Mary’s faithful.<\/p>\n
Garner was on the front foot through the early rounds, stalking Italy’s Magnesi down as he applied early pressure.<\/p>\n
The contest was fought at a high tempo – with both men happy to trade shots at close quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garner achieved a childhood dream in his hometown of Southampton with a dominant win over Michael Magnesi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-750304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750304","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=750304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}