Fabio Turchi (Italy) lost his WBC International 200Lbs crown to Tommy McCarthy (UK) last October 11th in Trento (North of Italy).
Referee Francisco Alloza Rosa
Victor Loughlin 112 116 McCarthy
Massimo Barrovecchio 113 115 McCarthy
Guido Cavalleri 116 112 Turchi
WBC Supervisor Mauro BETTI (WBC VP)
At ringside WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman and “Manos de Piedra” Roberto Duran
McCarthy W by Split Decision 12 to become the new WBC International Cruiserweight champion
Irish Cruiserweight Tommy McCarthy dug deep to record a split decision victory over Fabio Turchi in Trento, Italy. He wiped out Turchi’s previously unbeaten record with scores of 116-112, 112-116, 115-113 to claim Turchi’s WBC international cruiserweight crown. In a tentative early round Turchi appeared rattled with McCarthy landing a powerful right which stumbled the Italian, in an otherwise cagey opener. However, ‘Stone Crusher’ survived the early scare to largely dominate the early proceedings, forcing McCarthy onto his back foot. Turchi was continuing to land to head and body, although his foe kept him in check with stinging counter punches in rounds three and four. McCarthy began to find a rhythm responding to Turchi’s combinations with a big right hand of his own in round six. Both men continued to meet fire with fire and a clash of heads in round seven left Turchi with a huge cut above his left eye. It was seen at the instant replay by President Mauricio Sulaiman to be an accidental headbutt. The WBC rules was applied and the uncut boxer (McCarthy) was automatically deducted one point. The visitor was growing in confidence as the fight progressed. The home favourite admirably soldiered on despite his left eye completing closing in round 10, following instruction from the ringside doctor that he could continue. The final two rounds followed suit of the previous rounds, with both men letting their hands go with vigour as the fight went the distance. Turchi appeared bruised and battered as he awaited the judges’ scorecards, but McCarthy without really a mark on him claimed the biggest scalp of his career on a split decision. The Irishman made it two successive wins in Italy following his victory over Francesco Cataldo in July (this fight between Turchi and McCarthy was actually to take place last July in Rome, but Turchi suffered an injury days before and the championship was to be postponed). McCarthy is firmly back in the mix at an exciting level and is expected to face a British rival perhaps before the year is out for a title defence. Turchi will certainly be back because he is young and strong.
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Former WBC International champions in this weight class
Fabio TURCHI Italy
Ilunga Makabu Congo
Constantin Bejenaru Moldova
Mikki Nielsen Denmark
Ilunga Makabu Congo
*Stivens Bujaj and Junior Antony Wright fought a Draw on 15th May 2014
The title remained vacant*
Dmytro Kucher Ukraine
Vincenzo Rossitto Italy
Alexander Alexeev Uzbekistan
Giacobbe Fragomeni Italy
Silvio Branco Italy
Herbie Hide Nigeria
Rudolf Kraj Czech Rep
Grigory Drozd Russia
Alexander Petkovic Germany
Vincenzo Cantatore Italy
Wayne Braithwaite Guyana
Vassiliy Jirov Kazakhstan
Juan Carlos Gomez Cuba
Alexei ILIN Russia
Przemyslaw Saleta Poland
Carl Thompson England
Andrei Rudenko Russia
Angelo Rottoli Italy
Bashiru Alì Nigeria