{"id":37565,"date":"2026-06-24T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37565\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:45:07","slug":"crocker-vs-paro-live-results-latest-updates-from-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37565\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocker vs. Paro live results: Latest updates from Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to The Ring&#8217;s live blog commentary as <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/lewis-crocker-4ICl2X3Bhg2KLeq8JVG5j\">Lewis Crocker<\/a> travels overseas for the first time with a career-best test against <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/liam-paro-2DahBg18IMLf6g5SSpox4A\">Liam Paro<\/a> forthcoming for his first IBF welterweight title defense. <\/p>\n<p>As the possibility of stateside showdowns and big-name unifications beckon for the victor, &#8220;The Croc&#8221; knows he can&#8217;t afford to slip up on enemy turf with former 140-pound titleholder Paro eager to make history on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a big underdog in my last fight and came through to win the world title. Big respect for Liam \u2014 he&#8217;s a phenomenal fighter \u2014 so we&#8217;re going to put on a great performance,&#8221; Crocker said in Monday&#8217;s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Originally slated to face Paddy Donovan (15-2, 11 KOs) on the Nikita Tszyu-Michael Zerafa undercard in January, the Irishman&#8217;s illness prompted the IBF to order this mandated title defense instead. Rather than the possibility of an immediate Crocker-Donovan trilogy, the sport is richer for having another fresh matchup at championship level.<\/p>\n<p>Both main event combatants <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/crocker-paro-make-weight-before-ibf-welterweight-title-fight-7gj6IIm6MFqbAhrItUj9ms\">weighed in the same, 146.9 pounds on Tuesday<\/a> and will headline an eight-fight card at Brisbane&#8217;s 5,500-seater Pat Rafter Arena, most notably known for hosting tennis events during the Australian summer swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to The Ring&#8217;s live blog commentary as Lewis Crocker travels overseas for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11021,11024,11027,11026,99,4292,11025,11022],"class_list":["post-37565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-brisbane","tag-live-blog","tag-the-ring","tag-welterweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}