By Elliot Foster
Jack Catterall lined up a potential showdown with Ohara Davies by getting a win.
The Chorley super-lightweight, who is rated number four with the WBO, retained his WBO Inter-Continental title against Tyrone McKenna.
Catterall had a point deducted for landing a shot while McKenna was on the canvas and though referee Steve Gray didn’t take up a count, he was forced to just moments later after McKenna was dropped by a left hand from the smaller man.
Their clash, which looked like one-way traffic in the early stages, took place at the SSE Arena in Belfast, as part of the supporting cast to Michael Conlan’s homecoming outing against former world title challenger Adeilson Dos Santos, exclusively live on BT Sport and BoxNation.
And a 95-91 and 94-93 twice victory for the Jamie Moore-trained ‘El Gato’ will surely set up a showdown with former WBC super-lightweight Silver champion ‘OD’.
Boxing Scene understands the fight will take place, if it’s made, on the undercard of Carl Frampton’s WBO interim featherweight title defence against Luke Jackson, exclusively live on BT Sport and BoxNation, on August 18 at Windsor Park in Belfast.
Tyson Fury will return on the card and Paddy Barnes will challenge Cristofer Rosales for the WBC flyweight world title.
And it remains to be seen whether a clash between Davies and Catterall is made for the same bill.
Also on the Belfast card, Jono Carroll scored a stoppage victory in his rematch against Declan Geraghty.
The Dubliner dropped his man in the third round before taking over and stopping him in the ninth.
Carroll, cut early, retained the IBF Inter-Continental super-featherweight title with the victory.
And Carroll, after referee Bob Williams stopped the contest after two minutes and 12 seconds of the ninth round, said that he now wants a world title fight, potentially in front of a Belfast crowd he called “amazing”.
