Blake Minto of Toronto wins World Boxing Foundation's international lightweight belt at Detonation 9 fight night in Newcastle

By David Stewart
Updated July 17 2017 - 3:42pm, first published 3:27pm

TORONTO boxer Blake Minto won the World Boxing Foundation’s vacant international lightweight title against veteran Mark Sales at the ‘Detonation 9’ fight night at Newcastle on Saturday. Minto’s fight plan worked a treat: he out-boxed the awkward southpaw, dragging Sales into “the deep water” of the full 10 rounds to secure a unanimous points decision. In April, Minto won the Australasian welterweight belt.

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