GOTTA HAND IT TO BRAVE RYAN

RYAN BURNETT retained his WBA title after beating Yonfrez Parejo with virtually one hand at the Principality Stadium on Saturday night.

The Belfast bantam, a gold medal winner for Ireland at the 2010 Youth Olympics, dominated the battle-hardened Venezuelan.

But he suffered a suspected broken right hand in the third round on the Anthony Joshua versus Joe Parker undercard.

The final scores read 120-108, 120-108 – with two judges giving Burnett all 12 rounds – and a 116-112 card which suggests that amateur boxing isn’t the only code that needs to audit its judging.

“I hit him with a right hand and I felt it go. Anytime I was getting even close to landing it was giving me a shooting pain up my hand, I just had to rely on my boxing DUNDALK lightweight Amy Broadhurst claimed a European Under-22 title in Targu Jiu, Romania yesterday after beating Francesca Martuschiello.

The Dealgan BC southpaw scored a unanimous decision over the Italian, who she beat in the 2015 European skills,” said undefeated Burnett (below) after improving to 19 wins.

Elsewhere, Ireland’s former European Elite champions Jason Quigley and Ray Moylette remain unbeaten after winning in Boston on Saturday night.

Donegal middleweight Quigley improved to 14 wins after stopping

Daniel Rosario-cruz at the Marina Bay Sportsplex in Quincy in his first fight back in a year because of a hand injury.

Boxing for the first time under new coach Dominic Ingle, Quigley dropped Rosariocruz with a vicious body shot in the sixth and the referee waved it off after the Puerto Rican went down again moments later.

Moylette scored a points decision in his grudge match with Matt Doherty of Massachusetts, the Mayo super-lightweight winning 58-54, 59-55,59-55. Youth final, to become the only Irish boxer besides Jason Quigley in 2012 to win gold at this level.

Roscommon middleweight Aoife O’rourke had to withdraw from her middleweight final versus Turkey’s

Busenaz Surmeneli because of an illness.