James DeGale makes history as he claimed IBF TITTLE

James DeGale claimed an historic victory as he
beat Andre Direll to win the vacant IBF super-
middleweight championship.
The Londoner is the first British boxer to win an
Olympic gold medal and go on to become world
champion.
It was a closely fought contest in Boston but
DeGale, perhaps surprisingly, was awarded a
unanimous points decision, with Howard Foster of
England and Daniel Fitzgerald of the United States
scoring it 114-112, while Canada's Alan
Davis bizarrely awarded the fight 117-109 to the
UK boxer.
He had Dirrell down twice in the second round,
and that may well have proved decisive, although
the American appeared to dominate the second
half of the fight.
DeGale, however, won't care about that, and this
victory could now lead to a big domestic clash
against Carl Froch or a re-match with George
Groves.