{"id":579474,"date":"2026-08-01T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:12:09","slug":"oleary-suffers-10th-round-knock-out-loss-to-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579474\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Leary suffers 10th-round knock-out loss to Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierce O’Leary has suffered a 10th-round knock-out defeat in his IBO World super lightweight championship title defence against England’s Mark Chamberlain at the Three Arena in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Chamberlain, who pulled out of a scheduled showdown between the pair in March due to a chest infection, caught previously-unbeaten O’Leary on the ropes with a numbing combination before the referee stepped in to stop the fight.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Englishman silenced O\u2019Leary\u2019s fans at the 3Arena as the Dubliner crashed to his first professional defeat.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary, bidding for a 20th straight professional win, was floored by a left to the nose in the second round and again by another left in the third before recovering his composure to take the fight to his opponent.<\/p>\n

\"DUBLIN,
\nO’Leary and Chamberlain put on a show in Dublin<\/p>\n

The Dubliner appeared to have turned the tide when a vicious body shot sent Chamberlain to the canvas in the seventh and he kept coming forward as an epic contest unfolded.<\/p>\n

But after being backed into a corner in the 10th, Chamberlain stepped off the ropes and caught O\u2019Leary with a flurry of bruising punches that sent him down for a third time and there was no way back.<\/p>\n

“First and foremost, respect to Pierce, massive thank you to Queensbury, Frank, and Piece for giving me this opportunity,2 Chamberlain said.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a stranger to an away day, and anyone that knows me deep down knows I will fight anyone, anywhere.<\/p>\n

“If means I’ve got to go in the champions back garden, I’ll do that.<\/p>\n

“But I take my hat off to Pierce because he’s a true champion and he’ll come again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierce O’Leary has suffered a 10th-round knock-out defeat in his IBO World super lightweight championship title defence against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-579474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579474","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=579474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}