By Owain Comerford
There was loads of guts however no glory for Feargal McCrory within the early hours of Saturday morning.
The Tyrone man stepped into the yard of Washington D.C’s Lamont Roach Jr, aiming to carry the WBA World Tremendous Featherweight Title house, sadly leaving empty-handed.
Actually dwelling as much as his moniker, “Fearless” was on the receiving finish of an onslaught of bombs from Roach all through the struggle however managed to soldier on earlier than going out on his defend as his nook threw within the towel within the eighth spherical.
The course of the struggle was definitely foreshadowed early on as the previous Irish Champion was caught with a clear proper hook halfway by the first spherical, which was later adopted by a thundering left from Roach Jr, definitely incomes the Irishman’s respect.“
Fearless” tried adjusting his method after feeling the exact energy strikes from Roach Jr, by attempting to make it right into a dogfight by partaking in shut fight with the technically superior striker.
This adjustment inevitably got here again to chunk him as he was left on skates on the finish of the seocnd from Roach Jr’s patented left hook, earlier than being knocked down early within the third from the identical strike.
The quick candy strikes from Roach Jr definitely discovered a house to the chin and midsection of the Irishman once more within the fourth as he was struck down twice in fast succession from crippling pictures to the physique on the finish of the spherical.
It appeared as if McCrory rose from the ashes within the fifth, fearlessly marching in the direction of Roach Jr, and sticking to his weapons to attempt to tough him up from the within, touchdown a clear proper hook within the course of earlier than grinning on the American as if to say “how’d that really feel?”.
Regardless of a promising fith from the New York-based Irishman together with a clear proper uppercut within the sixth, it appeared that his second wind had expired as Roach Jr returned to effectively as soon as extra with crunching hooks to the physique and head earlier than the stoppage within the eighth.
