A Paddy Donovan-Lewis Crocker trilogy fight moved closer after the former won his IBF world welterweight title eliminator against Ukrainian Karen Chukhadzhian in Germany.<\/p>\n
The Limerick man won a majority decision after preforming well in the 12-round welterweight bout \u2013 putting his opponent down twice on the way to a 115-111, 114-112, 113-113 win on the scorecards.<\/p>\n
Donovan now becomes the mandatory challenger for the winner of Crocker and his fight with Liam Paro.<\/p>\n
Crocker’s first IBF welterweight title defence will take place in Brisbane on 24 June against the Australian.<\/p>\n
If he comes through that, calls for another fight with Donovan will gather pace.<\/p>\n
Donovan caught the eye in Mannheim, a flush left putting the Ukrainian down in the sixth while he was awarded another knockdown in the eighth \u2013 although it looked like Chukhadzhian may have slipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Paddy Donovan-Lewis Crocker trilogy fight moved closer after the former won his IBF world welterweight title eliminator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-451295","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\/451295","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=451295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}