James DeGale vs Chris Eubank Jr result: Junior knocks DeGale down twice en route to one-sided win
Relive all the action as James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr settled their longstanding rivalry at the 02 Arena
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Your support makes all the difference.Chris Eubank Jr has left James DeGale facing retirement after securing the finest victory of his career via a unanimous decision in their IBO super middleweight title match in London.
He had previously lost his two biggest fights, against Billy Joe Saunders and George Groves, but improved sufficiently to win an occasion DeGale said would force the loser to retire.
At 29 and with so high a profile there was little risk of that for Eubank Jr, but after his third defeat and a career in which he became the first British Olympic gold medallist to win a world title DeGale - the loser by scores of 114-112, 115-112 and 117-109 - has been left with few lucrative options to pursue.
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Round 2: Joyce catches Stiverne with a huge right hand and the Haitian is wobbled. It's not so much the power, he just has no energy. Neither man have any sort of defence, Stiverne's hands are dropped to floor level and he can't bring himself to lift them. Howard Foster thinks about stepping in but Stiverne retaliates with a left-hook just in time. How did he make it through that round?
Round 3: Knockdown! Joyce hits Stiverne with a straight right-hand early on in the round, and Stiverne falls back against the ropes and looses his feet. He beats the count though and fires back as Joyce looks to close the show.
Round 3: Stiverne makes it through the round! Joyce is pot-shotting to head and body, breaking Stiverne down systematically, and you get the sense he could get the stoppage whenever he wants now.
Round 4: A slower round thoroughly dominated by Joyce. He's looking to work the jab and employ proper technique rather than descending into an all out bar fight. Stiverne is breathing so heavily.
Round 5: Another slower round after the early brawl. Joyce is just treating this as a spar now, testing out new techniques with Abel Sanchez in the corner, and it's impossible to see how Stiverne could turn this around now. He's just sustaining ugly punishment in there.
KO! Howard Foster has waved it off. Stiverne was just taking shot after shot and it's the right call from the ref. Stiverne was taking unnecessary and dangerous punishment.
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