Paddy Donovan On The Heartbreak Of His First Loss, Revenge On Lewis Crocker, And Being In Camp With Whittaker, Sheeraz And Parker

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

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5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Paddy Donovan suffered the first defeat of his career when he was disqualified in Belfast against Lewis Crocker in March.

Donovan was heartbroken and distraught at the time. His team immediately filed for a rematch and the IBF granted it, meaning he will likely face Crocker again – probably back in Belfast in September – with the winner due to challenge Jaron Ennis.

Donovan also talks to Tris Dixon about being part of one of the leading stables in boxing, with coach Andy Lee also working with Joseph Parker, Ben Whittaker and Hamzah Sheeraz.

Read the full interview here https://www.boxingscene.com/articles/paddy-donovan-is-ready-to-write-a-new-ending-to-rivalry-with-lewis-crocker

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1:06.4	and we're back now with Paddy Donovan. I was ringside for Paddy Donovan to fight who fought Lewis
1:12.5	Crocker in Belfast earlier this year. One of the most wild fights and sort of wild set of
1:18.0	circumstances I can recall being at a fight for with Donovan Amar that had on points but having
1:24.2	lost a couple of points along the way he dropped and arguably stopped
1:30.0	Lewis Crocker with a shot that came after the bell and was disqualified he was thrown out and
1:35.6	he was hugely emotional that night went into the dressing room spent some time with him and he was
1:39.9	he was in tears and Andy Lee was trying to console him and he's had a bit of time to sort of
1:46.0	deal with deal with what happened that night but um you can see it's clearly taken an effect on him
1:53.0	but it was really good to be able to sit and talk with Paddy Donovan uh very recently and I really
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