Dunne successfully defends EBU title
Sunday, 25 March 2007
Dubliner Bernard Dunne defended his EBU European Super Bantamweight title with aplomb as he stopped Yersin Jailauov of Kazakhstan in the third round at a sold-out Point Depot.
Referee Giuseppe Quartarone stopped the fight after one minute and 57 seconds of the third round as Dunne dominated from the off.
Jailauov was sent reeling to the canvas by a left uppercut-left hook combination. He took the count but the referee stepped in just moments later after a superb right hand from the champion.
The win was the 23rd straight win of the Neilstown man's professional career.
Dunne said of his opponent afterwards: 'He was hard to pin down, he's a strong fighter. It was about patience and trying to catch him with that one shot.'
A fight against unbeaten Spanish fighter Kiko Martinez, who is the mandatory challenger, is likely to be next up for Dunne, whose promoter Brian Peters wants to be on that show 'before the renovations begin at the Point Depot'.
- Darragh Maloney, with panellists Mick Dowling and Matthew Macklin, presents coverage of European Super-Bantamweight Champion Bernard Dunne's first title defence against Yersin Jailauov at the Point Depot in Dublin
- Watch the Jim Rock v Szabolcs Rimovszky super-middleweight undercard [includes analysis by Mick Dowling and Matthew Macklin]
- RTÉ Sport reflects on Bernard Dunne's victory over Esham Pickering in November 2006 to win the European Super-Bantamweight title
- RTÉ Sport's Jimmy Magee spoke to Bernard Dunne as he trained in Belfast before the Jailauov fight
- RTÉ Sport's Marty Morrissey gets the views of former Olympic champion Michael Carruth
- Watch a middleweight undercard contest between England's Conroy McIntosh and Poland's Lukasz Wawrzyczek (includes details of other undercard fights)
- Round 1 (commentary by Jimmy Magee and Dave 'Boy' McAuley
- Round 2
- Round 3 (includes Bernard Dunne interview and panellists' analysis)
- Watch more analysis from Mick Dowling and Matthew Macklin
