Zac Dunn stays on course for WBC super middleweight title shot after beating Les Sherrington

MELBOURNE boxer Zac Dunn knocked out Queensland veteran Les Sherrington to move closer to a shot at the WBC super middleweight world title.

Zac Dunn has now won all 21 of his professional fights.

MELBOURNE boxer Zac Dunn’s unbeaten record remains intact after he knocked out over-matched Queensland veteran Les Sherrington in three rounds on Saturday night.

The win puts him closer to a shot at the WBC super middleweight world title.

Dunn, 25, has now won all 21 professional fights with 17 knockouts and should move up to the top five in the WBC rankings.

He was far too good for Sherrington, knocking him down in the second with the referee calling it off shortly afterwards.

Blake Caparello, 29, also from Melbourne, suffered only the second defeat of his 25 fight career when American super-middleweight Andre Dirrell survived a second-round knockdown to win comfortably on points over 10 rounds in Atlantic City on Friday night.

Caparello, whose only other defeat was in a light-heavyweight WBO title shot against Russian Sergey Kovalev in August, 2014, floored the experienced but fading Dirrell, 32, with a left to the head but failed to finish him off when he had the chance.

Originally published as Zac Dunn stays on course for WBC super middleweight title shot after beating Les Sherrington