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<\/p>\nPierce O’Leary suffered his first professional defeat when he was stopped by Mark Chamberlain in a thrilling fight in Dublin.<\/p>\n
O’Leary battled back to drop Chamberlain after being floored twice in the early rounds, but the hometown hero was dramatically halted in the 10th round of their super-lightweight fight at 3Arena.<\/p>\n
Chamberlain had taken a firm grip on the fight from the second round when he floored O’Leary with a left hand.<\/p>\n
O’Leary was on the brink of a swift stoppage loss when he was dropped again in the third, sinking to the canvas after an uppercut from Chamberlain.<\/p>\n
Roared on by a vociferous crowd, O’Leary launched a spirited rally and a body shot sent Chamberlain crumpling to the floor by the ropes in the seventh.<\/p>\n
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\n O’Leary’s spirited fightback was ended in the 10th round<\/p>\n
O’Leary’s pursuit of a comeback win was ruthlessly ended by Chamberlain a few rounds later, though, as the Portsmouth fighter landed a huge right hand that prompted the referee to wave it off.<\/p>\n
After his unbeaten record was ended, O’Leary called for a rematch: “I thought I was well back in the fight when it happened but it is what it is.<\/p>\n
“Mark was the better man on the night. A fight like that, I think we all want to see a rematch.”<\/p>\n
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\n Chamberlain celebrates a thrilling victory<\/p>\n
Chamberlain, who put his career back on track after a draw with Jack Rafferty last August, said: “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 it means I’ve got to go in the champion’s 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 suffered his first professional defeat when he was stopped by Mark Chamberlain in a thrilling fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724236","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=724236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}