Twist in 'heartbreaking' Wilson title loss

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Liam Wilson's managers volition protestation the effect of his WBO ace featherweight rubric aft the referee allowed Mexican Emanuel Navarrete ample clip to retrieve from a sound down.

Navarrete yet recovered to bushed the Aussie via TKO successful the ninth circular of the bout successful Arizona.

Navarrete entered the combat an overwhelming favourite, but recovered it pugnacious going aboriginal on. earlier the biggest infinitesimal of the combat successful the 4th round.

Wilson missed a close jab, but past followed it up with a beardown left-right operation that nonstop Navarrete to the canvas and looked similar it whitethorn person ended the fight.

The referee stepped successful and gave Navarrete ample clip - 27 seconds - to drawback his enactment and enactment his mouthguard backmost in.

The circular ended soon after, and determination is plentifulness of proposition the combat should person ended there.

Navarrete came backmost successful the 5th circular and looked to measurement up the aggression, landing respective dense assemblage blows that looked similar they wounded the Aussie.

Then successful the sixth round, Wilson erstwhile again looked to person inflicted harm connected the Mexican with a bid of dense close hooks close connected his jaw.

In the seventh, Navarrete looked to instrumentality the ascendency back, inflicting respective much dense blows connected the Aussie.

Navarrete downs Wilson by TKO

Navarrete scored a important knockdown aboriginal successful the ninth round. Wilson recovered, but stumbled soon after.

The referee waved the combat disconnected arsenic Navarrete pinned Wilson connected the ropes, the Aussie showing small defence.

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