Caroline Dubois couldn’t ship the knockout end sought by her crew however excelled in each different approach.
The unbeaten Londoner dominated Uruguay’s Maira Moneo over ten rounds to win the interim WBC light-weight title. Scores of 100-89, 100-90 and 99-90 all landed for Dubois of their Sky Sports activities/Peacock+ co-feature Saturday at Oakwell Soccer Floor in Barnsley, England.
Moneo was floored in spherical six however in any other case confirmed a sturdy chin and a courageous combating coronary heart.
Dubois (10-0, 5 knockouts) was dominant from the outset and capitalized on Moneo’s aggressive strategy. The 2020 Olympian for Workforce Nice Britain utilized her jab and likewise discovered repeat success along with her lead proper hook. Moneo was in a position to land her personal energy pictures however had minimal affect in her tried title protection.
The bout’s lone knockdown got here courtesy of a left hook from Dubois within the sixth. Moneo picked herself up and stored chugging ahead. The demand in Dubois’ nook was to shut the present however as an alternative got here an almost flawless efficiency from the 23-year-old southpaw.
Moneo fell to 14-2 (3 KOs) in her first profession struggle outdoors of Uruguay. She claimed the vacant interim WBC title final December. Her crew tried to make use of it as leverage to power a struggle with RING/WBC/WBA 135-pound queen Katie Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs). It didn’t play, as Taylor selected to stay at 140 the place she is going to defend her RING/undisputed championship versus Amanda Serrano (47-2-1, 31 KOs) in November.
Dubois is now in place to problem not less than for Taylor’s WBC belt. The sense is that she must accept an improve to full title standing.
Earlier on the present, Stevie McKenna stopped Joe Legal guidelines in a terrific three-round shootout.
Each fighters hit the deck in a Spherical of the 12 months-worthy first spherical. Legal guidelines was felled by proper fingers early within the opening body however shortly leveled up the taking part in subject. McKenna was a bit too wild within the observe up and caught a proper of his personal to ship him to the deck.
Motion continued in spherical two although McKenna completely surged forward. McKenna (15-0, 14 KOs) finally beat the struggle out of Legal guidelines (14-3, 5 KOs). Three knockdowns within the third was sufficient for Legal guidelines’ nook to actually throw within the towel.
The win was the sixth in a row inside the space for McKenna, who has but to go deeper than six rounds.
