Terence Crawford won the WBO Lightweight title with a 12 round unanimous decision over reigning champion Ricky Burs in front of a pro-Burns crowd at the Scottish Exhibition Center in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford controlled the action with his boxing and won by scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 116-112.
Crawford, 134 1/4 lbs of Omaha, NE becomes a world champion and is now 23-0. Burns, 134 1/4 lbs of Glasgow, SCOT is now 36-3-1.
2012 Olympic Gold Medal winner Anthony Joshua scored a 1st round stoppage over Hector Avila in a scheduled 6 round Heavyweight bout.
Joshua landed a perfect left hook that sent Avila down to the canvas holding his ear and was counted out at 2:14.
Joshua is now 5-0 with 5 knockouts. Avila is 22-16-1.
Former world title challenger took out John Simpson in round two of a scheduled 10 round Lightweight bout.
Murray, who was much bigger dropped Simpson three times in the 2nd frame and the bout was stopped at 2:58 of round two.
Murray is now 33-2 with 20 knockouts. Simpson is 25-11.
Scotty Cardle remained perfect by scoring a stoppage over Paul Appleby in the eighth and final scheduled round of their Lightweight bout.
It was a close fight with Cardle getting the better until he was all over Appleby in the final frame as he unleashed a fuselage of punches and dropped Appleby with a hard right. Appleby got to his feet but the fight was stopped at 1:17 of round eight.
Cardle is now 14-0 with 3 knockouts. Appleby is 19-6.
2012 Olympic Gold Medal winner Anthony Ogogo scored a 6 round decision over Greg O’Neill
Ogogo won by the referee’s score of 60-54 and is now 5-0. O’Neill is 3-2.
Martin J Ward scored a 4th round stoppage over Craig Woodruff in a scheduled 6 round Super Featherweight bout.
Ward is now 8-0 with 4 knockouts. Woodruff is now 5-3.
