The rematch between Dennis McCann and Ionut Baluta has been postponed resulting from TV scheduling points.
The excellent news is that the competition, which may also be for the vacant European junior featherweight title, will happen only one week later and can now happen on the O2 Enviornment, London on the undercard of Joe Joyce-Derek Chisora on July 27.
Final August, the 2 met on the famed York Corridor, Bethnal Inexperienced when controversy ensued and each needed to accept a ninth-round technical draw.
McCann did effectively early however the combat however had took a flip when the Brit was lower from a conflict of heads within the seventh spherical and bled prefusely from the brow.
The British based-Romanian closed strongly and was searching the stoppage when referee Marcus McDonnell referred to as a halt and the combat went to the scorecards. Two of the officers scored it 86-86 x2, whereas one other voted 86-85 for McCann, rending the bout a draw.
McCann (15-0-1, 8 knockouts) received nationwide titles at junior and youth stage earlier than making his skilled bow at 18. The younger southpaw labored his method up earlier than his group let him off the leash and he impressed beating James Seashore Jr. (TKO 8) and Joe Ham (TKO 8) for the vacant commonwealth title.
The 23-year-old dubbed “Menace” hit a speedbump in his draw with Baluta. Nonetheless, after recovering from the cuts he added the vacant British 122-pound title to his assortment by dropping and outboxing Brad Strand (UD 12).
Baluta (16-4-1, 3 KOs) boxed for Romania as an beginner earlier than turning skilled in Spain in 2016. He suffered a few early defeats earlier than the upset minded fighter beat TJ Doheny (UD 8) and David Oliver Joyce (TKO 3).
The 30-year-old misplaced an in depth combat to Michael Conlan (MD 12) however rebounded to beat Brad Foster (UD 10) however then misplaced to Liam Davies (UD 12) for the vacant EBU title. He returned with a win over beforehand unbeaten Andrew Cain (SD 10) and, most not too long ago fought McCann.
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