Lawrence Okolie vs Chris Billam-Smith full results
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Tonight’s WBO World cruiserweight championship bout in Bournemouth features hometown hero Chris Billam-Smith and defending champion Lawrence Okolie in a sold-out Vitality Stadium.
If you can't watch the event live on Sky Sports, then BBN have got you covered below as we report the fight night results live from ringside.
Chack back here from 5pm for a instant reports of all the action as it happens:
Fight 1
Alireza Ghadiri vs Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes
Popular young prospect Razor Ali showed Championship-level determination to overcome being knocked down in the second round to take a points victory over six against a game opponent in Jonatas Oliveira, winning every round other than the one he was knocked down in. Ali deployed impressive punch speed and smart footwork to totally outclass Oliveira.
Fight 2
Lewis Edmonson vs Petar Nosic
Despite the fight ending a round earlier than scheduled due to a clash of heads, Lewis Edmundson showed serious talent to move to 7-0 as a professional against an opponent in Petar Nosic who had only tasted defeat once before in his nine fight professional career.
Edmundson dominated every exchange and controlled the fight intelligently, winning every single round before the fight's sudden ending.
Fight 3
Mace Ruegg vs Dean Dodge
Fight 4
Tommy Welch vs Amine Boucetta
Hard-hitting Heavyweight prospect Tommy Welch took a convincing points victory over an experienced opponent in Amine Boucetta on the biggest stage of his career so far.
Welch used all his attributes to control the fight at every distance, from trading jabs at range to dominating the clinch. With the referee scoring only a single round for Boucetta, Welch will be able to return down the coast to Brighton with a seriously increased profile.
Fight 5
Lee Cutler vs Stanley Stannard
Cutler edges Stannard 97-95.
Fight 6
Isaac Chamberlain vs Daniel Bocianksi
Fight 7
Michael McKinson vs Lebin Morales
McKinson scores his fourth career KO in the seventh and moves up to 25-1.
Fight 8
Kariss Artingstall vs Jade Taylor
Kariss wins 97-92.
Chief Support
Sam Eggington vs Joe Pigford
Birmingham's Eggington wins in the 12th round.
Main Event
Lawrence Okolie vs Chris Billam-Smith
Messy right from the off. Four or five clinches in the first minute. Right hand from Okolie stiffens Billam-Smith's legs. Good body shot from Okolie but it's a very messy round to start off with, which is something Okolie is well known for. Billam-Smith did get a good left hook in though.
Good right hand from Okolie glances off Billam-Smith's head. Two rounds to Okolie so far. CBS not throwing as much as we all expected so far.
Good one-two from Okolie in the closing moments of round three.
Okolie down in round four from an incredible left hook. Then he takes another big uppercut. The drama! Okolie threw a left to the body and got caught out of shape with a big left from below. Okolie has never been in this territory ever before, how will he react?
Then Okolie gets a point deducted for holding, which really evens things up.
Billam-Smith lands a big left but Okolie takes it well. Despite being a traditional messy Okolie fight, it's quite exciting still because it's teetering on the edge.
Billam-Smith goes through the ropes and Okolie keeps on hitting in the seventh. It's not a great fight to watch but the atmosphere is electric in the stadium.
Okolie os going for the knockout in the eighth. The Londoner is really loading up. Very messy round but Okolie lands a big shot on the bell.
Good left from CBD on the inside. Then a good righ hand from Okolie. Another good left hook from CBS in a clnch. Close round, the whole fight could be close right now.
SugarHill got a talking to from Marcus McDonnell at the start of the 10th, then Okolie goes down and it's counted. Then Okolie lands big shots but CBS takes it well. Another big left hook from Billam-Smith. Big one-two from Okolie. The replay shows a shot landed on Okolie's back and he slipped forward but counted as a konckdown, rather unfairly.
Okolie roars out in the 11th looking for a stoppage after two 10-8 rounds. Okolie goes down again in the 11th! And surely CBS is in for an upset here.
Okolie probably got the last round, which was full of clinches, but will it be enough? We got to the scorecards…
112-112, 116-107, 115-108 and the new WBO World crusierweight champion is Chris Billam-Smith!
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