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Sport in brief: May 20, 2019

BOXING: 

ON A night when Deontay Wilder retained his WBC world heavyweight title with a first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in New York, Scotland’s Josh Taylor claimed the IBF super lightweight world title in Glasgow with a unanimous points victory over Belarusian Ivan Baranchyk. 

Billy Joe Saunders also secured a unanimous points win against Germany’s Shefat Isufi to gain the WBO super middleweight belt. 

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