by Crocker for the vacant title<\/a> last month in a split decision at Belfast’s Windsor Park in what was a rematch of the pair’s controversial first bout in March.<\/p>\nCrocker won that fight by disqualification before going on to become a world champion for the first time with victory in September’s second meeting between the pair.<\/p>\n
A victory for Donovan over the Australian would set up the prospect of a trilogy fight Belfast man Crocker.<\/p>\n
No date or venue has been set yet, but Matchroom Boxing CEO Eddie Hearn revealed that the eliminator could take place in Paro’s home country.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been speaking to No Limit (Paro’s promoters). They’ve made us an offer to do the fight in Australia,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bigger split to Liam Paro because of his position so we may have a little trip to Australia for that one.<\/p>\n
“Paddy will fancy his chances, as Liam would. It’s a very good match-up.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Donovan will fight Australia’s Liam Paro in a final eliminator to meet IBF world welterweight champion Lewis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-223461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}