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Evening Standard
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George Flood

Lawrence Okolie labours to scrappy win over David Light on return to retain WBO cruiserweight title

Lawrence Okolie successfully retained his WBO world cruiserweight title with a straightforward but disjointed points victory over David Light in Manchester.

In his first fight for 13 months following an acrimonious split from Matchroom Boxing and Eddie Hearn, the Londoner - now teamed up with Ben Shalom and Boxxer - was not troubled by his mandatory challenger from New Zealand throughout but displayed plenty of ring rust before coming on strong towards the end of an otherwise very low-key contest.

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