Unbeaten Terence Crawford made a profitable defence of his WBO welterweight title on Saturday, stopping Shawn Porter within the tenth spherical in Las Vegas.
The 34-year-old Crawford knocked Porter down twice within the tenth earlier than Porter’s father and coach Ken Porter stepped in to name off the combat.
Crawford felled Porter intially with a left uppercut on the button that buckled his knees.
It was throughout 1:21 of the spherical, when Crawford’s overhand proper to the facet of the top despatched Porter to the canvas for a second time, prompting his father to lean over the ropes and ask the referee to halt the competition.
Crawford improved to 38-0 with 29 wins by knockout, whereas Porter suffered the fourth lack of his profession, falling to 31-4-1 with 17 KOs.
The combat was shut by the primary 9 rounds with each fighters struggling cuts over their eyes due to unintentional butts.
Crawford moved to 16-0 in world championship fights and prolonged his streak of successful inside the gap to 9 straight bouts.
Crawford is taken into account probably the greatest pound-for-pound boxers on the earth.
He was the undisputed champion at tremendous light-weight, held a light-weight belt and is now 6-0 with six knockouts as a welterweight.
Crawford has the lesser of the 4 main welterweight titles.
Errol Spence, who was at ringside on Saturday, holds the IBF and WBC belts and Yordenis Ugas is in possession of the WBA title.
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