Michael Conlan continued his rebuild after his heart-breaking final spherical loss to Leigh Wooden in March, as he crushed Karim Guerfi inside a spherical of their scheduled ten rounder at featherweight.
Conlan (18-1, KO9) was three minutes away from changing into world champion in Nottingham within the spring, solely to have the possibility cruelly ripped away, though he did return with a dominant factors win over ten towards Miguel Marriaga in August. Guerfi (31-7, KO9) got here in as an skilled fighter, profitable European titles at bantamweight and featherweight.
Guerfi did have a historical past of being caught chilly although, and that was precisely the case right here, as towards the top of the opening spherical, Conlan trapped the Frenchman on the ropes and unleashed a blizzard of punches that ultimately chopped Guerfi right down to the canvas, the place the referee referred to as the struggle off mid-count.
.@MickConlan11 with a primary spherical TKO in entrance of the hometown crowd in Eire 🇮🇪 #ConlanGuerfi pic.twitter.com/KBc7JISWYK
— ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) December 10, 2022
Conlan will now hope to lure Wooden again into the ring for a rematch in 2023.
The undercard was threadbare as a consequence of a number of final minute withdrawals.
Sean McComb (15-1, KO5) claimed the vacant WBO European tremendous light-weight title, as he received each spherical of ten towards Hungary’s Zsolt Osadan (23-1-1, KO15).
𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒄𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 15-1 pic.twitter.com/q50khDqabw
— Conlan Boxing (@ConlanBoxing) December 10, 2022
Padraig McCrory (15-0, KO9) wasn’t at his finest, however he nonetheless received all eight rounds at mild heavyweight towards Dmytro Fedas (8-1-2, KO5).
Padraig McCrory took a reduce over the attention through the struggle however his staff weren’t too sad about it – it allowed them to scrape out a hardened piece of Vaseline that had discovered its means in there throughout a earlier bout. Pretty aye
— Kevin Byrne (@KevByrneBox) December 10, 2022
Kurt Walker (5-0, KO1) was one other shutout winner, as he took all six frames towards Yader Cardoza (26-21-1, KO8) at featherweight.
Fearghus Quinn (5-0, KO2) turned the brand new Celtic middleweight champion, as he stopped Graham McCormack (8-2, KO1) within the fifth of their scheduled eight rounder.
Conor Quinn (4-0-1, KO3) received each spherical of six at flyweight towards Stephen Jackson (1-28-1, KO1), and at tremendous welterweight, Kieran Molloy (4-0, KO3) compelled Alexander Zeledon (6-40-4, KO0) after the second of their six rounder.