Outdoors
at
the Stadio Di Lastra a Signa in
his home-town Lastra a Signa, the Romanian-born
27-year-old defeated Colombian co-challenger
Diego Lagos
in
impressive fashion
for the
vacant belt.
Lagos,
who´s only two previous defeats had come via
injury against undefeated Salvador Jimenez and
by decision to former European champion Faroukh
Kourbanov, both on away soil, had come to fight,
but the local man would not be denied.
Fired-up
and sharp, Ionescu stunned Lagos in round three
and followed up with a flurry, sending him down
with a couple of vicious body-shots. Clearly
unable to beat the count, the fight was waved
off with Lagos in a heap on the canvas.
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