{"id":255119,"date":"2025-07-11T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255119\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:09:09","slug":"matchroom-confirms-lewis-crocker-vs-paddy-donovan-rematch-for-vacant-ibf-welterweight-title-date-venue-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255119\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchroom Confirms Lewis Crocker Vs. Paddy Donovan Rematch For Vacant IBF Welterweight Title \u2013 Date &#038; Venue Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matchroom revealed today that Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan will be battling in their rematch for the now vacant IBF welterweight title next. The date and venue of the fight are still to be announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crocker vs. Donovan II: IBF Crown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two fighters will be fighting for the recently vacated IBF title that had been held by Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan was disqualified in the eighth round after dropping Crocker with a punch after the bell last March in Belfast, Ireland. It was a peach of a right hand from Donovan, 26, that poleaxed \u2018The Croc\u2019 Crocker after the bell in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>If Crocker had gotten up right away, the fight surely would have continued, but he stayed down. Who knows if he could have gotten back up? The way he was getting beaten up by Donovan in the eighth, you can\u2019t blame him for not wanting to get back to his feet to continue fighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Fans React: Matchroom Rematch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fans are less than enthused. Donovan (14-1, 11 KOs) and Crocker (21-0, 11 KOs) are both viewed as British domestic-level in talent, and not actual world-class fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Some people see them both as having been maneuvered to their current positions without facing significant opposition. They see this fight and their subsequent #1 and #3 IBF rankings as an example of calculated moves by their promoters.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition they have beaten is as lackluster as they come. Based on both of their past wins, they\u2019re more bottom 50-level fighters in terms of ranking rather than #1 and #3. They beat a bunch of scrubs to build their records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elite Welterweights: Beyond Crocker, Donovan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The real talent among the contenders at 147 is these fighters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shakhram Giyasov<\/li>\n<li>Raul Curiel<\/li>\n<li>Karen Chukhadzhian<\/li>\n<li>Eimantas Stanionis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaronEnnis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@JaronEnnis<\/a> vacating the IBF World Welterweight title and moving up, the rematch just got bigger \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewiscrocker1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@lewiscrocker1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaddyDonovan23?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PaddyDonovan23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date and venue coming soon \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CrockerDonovan2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CrockerDonovan2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAZNBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DAZNBoxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lHDIOFebBy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lHDIOFebBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matchroom Boxing (@MatchroomBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatchroomBoxing\/status\/1943412768691912938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Matchroom Confirms Lewis Crocker vs. Paddy Donovan Rematch for Vacant IBF Welterweight Title \u2013 Date &amp; Venue Pending<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated on 07\/10\/2025 \t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom revealed today that Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan will be battling in their rematch for the now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[2378,1935,12509,4332,4331,79,46344,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-fight-night","11":"tag-mark-robinson","12":"tag-matchroom-boxing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sse-arena","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114832406155420468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}