{"id":291060,"date":"2025-07-25T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291060\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:44:12","slug":"lewis-crocker-vs-paddy-donovan-ii-former-ufc-star-molly-mccann-to-make-boxing-debut-at-windsor-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291060\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker vs Paddy Donovan II: Former UFC star Molly McCann to make boxing debut at Windsor Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unbeaten middleweight Agyarko, 28, will face 30-year-old Englishman Ishmael Davis, while 35-year-old McKenna will take on fellow Irishman Dylan Moran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McKenna stopped Moran in the second round of their welterweight contest in Waterford last December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matchroom have also confirmed Patrick Brown, who represented Great Britain at the 2024 Olympics, and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Aaron Bowen will appear on the bill, with more fights still to be added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, Windsor Park was confirmed as the venue for Donovan and Crocker&#8217;s contest for the vacant IBF welterweight belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stadium last hosted a boxing event in August 2018 when two-weight world champion Carl Frampton defeated Australian Luke Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donovan and Crocker&#8217;s rematch will be the first world title bout between two fighters from Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their first meeting on 1 March was a final eliminator for the IBF title and ended in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqjd41g0ee4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial fashion<\/a> with Crocker taking the win by disqualification in front of a 8,500 crowd at the SSE Arena in his native Belfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unbeaten middleweight Agyarko, 28, will face 30-year-old Englishman Ishmael Davis, while 35-year-old McKenna will take on fellow Irishman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-291060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114914884282162530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291060","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=291060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}