By Nick Parkinson ,
17 minutes ago
Willy Hutchinson got revenge over Joshua Buatsi with a unanimous points win to lift the vacant WBC world light heavyweight title on Saturday.
Hutchinson was sharper and busier, especially in the first half of the fight, and Buatsi took too long to get into the fight at the AO Arena in Manchester, England.
Hutchinson (21-2, 14 KOs), 28, from Carstairs in Scotland, won his first world title and the vacant belt David Benavidez gave up to concentrate on cruiserweight, where he is a unified champion.
Hutchinson won by scores of 117-112, 115-113 and 115-113 to become Scotland's first men's world boxing champion since Josh Taylor's reign at junior welterweight ended three years ago.
After the fight England's Anthony Yarde, who lost to Benavidez for the WBC belt a year ago, congratulated Hutchinson in the ring and is now a possible future opponent.
"I was 13 years old when I said I would be WBC champion, I wrote it in a book, and now I am world champion," Hutchinson said in the ring.
"I should have beaten him two years ago, but we got the job done with balls of steel.
"I want him [Yarde] next."
Buatsi (20-2, 13 KOs), 33, from Croydon in London, paid for a...