Murphy lands Commonwealth featherweight title

Murphy lands Commonwealth featherweight title

Belfast’s Colm Murphy is the new Commonwealth featherweight champion with a stoppage win over Tanzania’s Saleh Kassim at The Mill in Newtownabbey.

Murphy, who will step as much as super-featherweight to face Dublin’s Jono Carroll for the IBO belt on the ‘Jazza’ Dickens-Anthony Cacace undercard on 14 March, got here by means of unscathed in a fight he always appeared on target to win.

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Kassim was pulled out at the end of the sixth round by his nook who informed referee Reece Carter of a hand injury, however in reality this fight was only going a method with Murphy in command.

The 26-year-old turns into the first Commonwealth featherweight champion from…

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