Ward beats Conroy in Belfast thriller

By Scott Shaffer

22/06/2019

Ward beats Conroy in Belfast thriller

Steven Ward W8 Liam Conroy... British light heavyweight Steven Ward defeated his former sparring partner Liam Conroy in a war waged in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The fight was scheduled for ten rounds but wound up as an eighth-round technical decision. A second-round clash of heads opened a cut just above Ward’s left eye. Conroy knocked Ward down in round four, but Ward got a second win and was coming on over the fight's second half. The cut had worsened by round eight, so the referee stopped the bout and sent it to the scorecards because the butt that caused the cut was ruled to be accidental. All three judges scored the bout 76-75 for Ward. source: wbo / nwemail.co.uk