Burns retains WBA super-lightweight belt with points win (The Associated Press)

Ricky Burns earned a unanimous decision against the unbeaten Kiryl Relikh in his first defense of the WBA super-lightweight belt on Friday. Burns, a three-weight world champion, was backed up by the Belarusian in the first three rounds, and couldn’t counter with any effect until the end of the fourth. It took two big rights in the eighth to take the sting out of Relikh, but Burns still needed to draw on his greater experience to stay on top.
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