Tonight in Birmingham on the Money-Denny card, Lewis Crocker edged Conah Walker over ten all-action rounds to win the WBA worldwide welterweight belt. Scores have been 96-93, 96-93, and 95-94. Each males gave their all tonight and each warriors felt they’d finished sufficient to have received.
(Credit score: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing)
Ultimately, Crocker, massive for the burden and having labored arduous to make the 147-pound restrict, simply nicked it. Walker, who was like a practice all night time lengthy, may simply be checked out as a person who was arduous finished by. After repeated warnings, Walker was docked some extent for a low blow within the ninth spherical.
27-year-old Crocker of Belfast, Northern Eire, is now 20-0(11), and he almost certainly strikes on to an all-Irish showdown with Paddy Donovan (who was at ringside and had Walker successful tonight’s slugfest). Walker of Wolverhampton, the older man by two years, falls to 13-3-1(5). All followers who watched tonight’s battle would watch a return, however a rematch appears unlikely.
An excellent battle became a terrific battle within the final third tonight, as each guys did lay all of it on the road. Tonight’s battle that noticed fixed arduous work and strain from Walker, with quick, explosive bursts from Crocker. It was a case of what you favored when it got here to who you felt received (ESB had it 95-94 for Walker). The tempo was sizzling from the get-go, whereas the eighth spherical noticed the battle undergo the roof.
Each males dug into the physique, and each guys swung for the fences, the extra drained Crocker particularly, and the followers have been on their toes. Walker, his proper eye badly swollen, his imaginative and prescient compromised, confirmed some chin, whereas Crocker managed to drag out some hearth from someplace when he was clearly feeling it in there. Getting in, followers knew they’d get a terrific one with these two, and Crocker and Walker certain delivered.
This one might properly go down as a British Battle of the Yr candidate. To repeat, sure, please, to a rematch. Walker deserves it.
