McCafferty takes World Middleweight Crown in another 12 round war
The Clanree Hotel, Letterkenny has certainly established itself as the home of world class kickboxing events with the P.T’s Kickboxing show once again raising the bar for kickboxing in Ireland. The main event featured ISKA World Light-middleweight Champion Tommy McCafferty in his second attempt to win the ISKA Middleweight belt.
McCafferty faced French Champion Dino Perrotto to contest the vacant title. McCafferty took the fight to Perrotto from the first bell dominating the opening rounds the Frenchman struggled to keep up. Perrotto opened a nasty cut under McCafferty’s left eye after which he seemed to regain his confidence and ride out the storm, finding his own rhythm. The French Champion had a big sixth round attacking with powerful punches and kicks earning McCaffery’s respect but Perrotto dropped the next two rounds to the relentless work rate of the Irishman. Perrotto got a second wind in the ninth and took the fight to McCafferty for the first time he managed to get McCafferty to take a backwards step landing heavy accurate blows. McCafferty really does have the heart of a Champion and the ability to dig deep inside himself to produce incredible durability and strength, that’s exactly what he did in the remaining rounds cheered on by the capacity crowd, Perroto was still dangerous and ready to trade leather but McCafferty would not be denied and at the end of the twelfth and final round was judged the winner by unanimous decision. The new two times World champion was happy with his work but now plans to take a break after three 12 round World title fights back to back inside the last eight months.
ISKA World Cruiserweight Champion Daniel ‘Pinta’ Quigley faced ISKA British Champion David Ball in a non-title contest. The match ended prematurely when Quigley closed Ball’s right eye with a solid right hand, Ball retired on his stool after the second round with impaired vision. Aidan Lafferty lifted the ISKA Irish Light-middleweight title belt due to a third round stoppage of Shane Montgomery.
3 June 2009
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