Overview
- Crocker dropped Donovan in rounds three and five and won on cards of 114-112 and 114-113, with one judge scoring it 115-111 for Donovan.
- The 12-round fight took place at Belfast’s Windsor Park before a near-20,000 crowd in a bout billed as the first all-Irish men’s world title fight.
- The rematch followed their March meeting that ended in Donovan’s disqualification; the IBF ordered a return after appeal and the title became vacant when Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis moved up in weight.
- Donovan rallied in the later rounds but Crocker improved to 22-0 to lift the vacant IBF belt in his hometown.
- On the undercard, former UFC fighter Molly McCann won her pro boxing debut, Caoimhin Agyarko edged Ishmael Davis by split decision, and Tyrone McKenna stopped Dylan Moran.