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FANTASY ISLAND

BEATEN in his first nine pro fights, Craig Derbyshire is now the Commonwealth light-flyweight champion after he dethroned Matt Windle in, of all places, the Cayman Islands. Windle, making his first defence of the belt he won 14 months ago, retired on his stool after the fifth round at the Lions Centre.

The 33-year-old champion from Birmingham had been shaken up during the fifth and was left with cuts under his right eye and on his forehead. Meanwhile,

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