Liam Paro has created a bloody and bruising piece of history, winning the IBF welterweight world title with a stunning unanimous decision victory over Lewis Crocker in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Paro ended the bout with severe swelling under his right eye and blood gushing from a cut on his left eye.<\/p>\n
The Queensland hero joins Jeff Fenech as the only Australian men to win world titles in two different weight classes after claiming the win with scores of 115-113 on all three cards.<\/p>\n
In a performance that will go down in history as one of the gutsiest efforts in a world title challenge in Australian boxing \u2013 and a contender for fight of the year \u2013 Paro battled through serious adversity to grind out the victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means everything, it\u2019s a long hard road,\u201d Paro said. \u201cI\u2019ve climbed the mountain before and been knocked off. I\u2019m speechless.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to dig deep, Lewis is a hell of a champion. I respect him a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a long f***in\u2019 road. So many people told me I couldn\u2019t do it. What now??!\u201d<\/p>\n
Crocker was devastated, but gracious in defeat after staging a valiant late comeback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to congratulate Liam and a great fight,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re a true champion, what a fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great fight, respect to Liam, he\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paro can line up fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, and he wants to fight them in his own backyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to bring the big fights back to Australia,\u201d he said. \u201cF**k travelling, we\u2019re bringing them Down Under.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Paro has created a bloody and bruising piece of history, winning the IBF welterweight world title with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,362980,30028,61496,187512,85],"class_list":["post-759794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-ibf-welterweight","tag-lewis-crocker","tag-liam-paro","tag-no-limits","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759794","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=759794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}