Lewis Crocker wins a cracker against Deniz Ilbay
BELFAST welterweight
Lewis Crocker topped MTK’s bill at the Bolton Whites Hotel and maintained his 100 per cent record. The wide margin of victory over Cologne’s
Deniz Ilbay at the conclusion of 10 highly entertaining rounds, though, fails to fully tell the story and certainly doesn’t reflect the toughness of an opponent who just wouldn’t succumb.
After a close couple of early rounds, Lewis looked to have made the breakthrough late in the third when a crunching left to the body and a follow-up right sent Ilbay to one knee. At that point the odds on it being an early finish looked particularly favourable, but no one had seemingly told the man from the Rhine. He came storming back late in the fourth, to such a degree that Crocker was left holding after being tagged by a weighty right.