Franco defeats Moloney on points, gets WBA belt

Andrew Karlov June 23, 2020, 4:38 p.m.

In the first championship fight since the start of the ban on sporting events due to coronavirus, Joshua Franco (17-1-2, 8 KOs) defeated Andrew Moloney (21-1, 14 KOs) by a close unanimous decision and took away his WBA super flyweight title.

This fight was the main event of the evening from the Top Rank promotion in the Bubble at the arena of the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Franco looked better at the end of the fight and in the eleventh round he was able to send Moloney to the floor, which was the decisive moment of this encounter. The scores were 115-112, 114-113, 114-113.

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