Lewis Crocker’s defence of the IBF World Welterweight title against Liam Paro will take place on 24 June in Brisbane, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n
Paro is the mandatory challenger for the belt and his promotional team No Limit Boxing won the purse bid to stage the fight back in February.<\/p>\n
As previously flagged, they have chosen home turf, with the Pat Rafter Arena the venue.<\/p>\n
Paro (30) will present a huge challenge to the unbeaten Crocker.<\/p>\n
He was world champion at light welterweight and boasts an impressive record of 27 victories from 28 fights, including claiming the IBF title against Subriel Mat\u00edas in 2024.<\/p>\n
Paro is managed by Meath’s Brian Peters, best known for working with Katie Taylor and Bernard Dunne.<\/p>\n
Crocker twice defeated Limerick\u2019s Paddy Donovan in securing the belt.<\/p>\n
Donovan had been due to meet Paro to determine the number one contender for the belt, only to suffer an injury. As a result, Paro was installed mandatory and the title fight has materialised.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Donovan is in action this Friday against Karen Chukhadzhian in Mannheim, Germany.<\/p>\n
It is a difficult mission for the Irish fighter against the big-punching Ukranian who has 26 wins in his career and just three defeats.<\/p>\n
The victor will become number one contender for the winner of Crocker v Paro, giving the potential for a trilogy bout between the two Irish fighters if they are both successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker’s defence of the IBF World Welterweight title against Liam Paro will take place on 24 June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-445017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}