The Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York City - After an entertaining scrap last September, Irish super middleweights Emmet Brennan and Kevin Cronin ran it back in MSG, with Brennan emerging victorious again, this time by a 10-round unanimous decision.

Scores were 98-92 across the board for Dublin’s Brennan, now 6-0 with 1 KO. Cronin falls to 8-3-1 with 4 KOs. It was an unpopular verdict with the pro-Cronin crowd, and a fight that was a lot closer than the scores would indicate.

Cronin stalked from the start, smiling throughout as he was unconcerned with anything coming back at him. As the rounds wore on, Cronin began marking up his rival’s face and was only getting hit when he got reckless defensively, but as the bout entered the middle and late round, those reckless or inactive moments got more frequent, allowing Brennan to get back in the fight and, ultimately, win it.

Brennan defeated Cronin via eight-round split decision in their first bout.

The main card opener between unbeaten Irish heavyweight Thomas Carty and Cleveland’s Dajuan Calloway ended in anticlimactic fashion when a leg injury rendered Carty unable to continue after two rounds, awarding the bout to Calloway via TKO.

After a tentative opening round as the Dubliner looked to figure his 409-pound foe out, he started to open up in the second stanza before falling to the canvas with a knee or ankle injury. Carty gamely rose and wanted to continue after that and two more falls to the mat, but between rounds, the fight was waved off on the advice of the ringside physician.

Carty falls to 9-1 with 8 KOs. Calloway improves to 11-3 with 9 KOs.

Popular local junior welterweight Cletus Seldin wasn’t able to put Colombia’s Yeis Gabriel Solano in any serious danger in their eight-rounder, but that didn’t keep “The Hammer” from extending his current winning streak to eight with a majority decision.

Seldin improved to 29-1 with 23 KOs via scores of 77-75, 78-74 and 76-76.

“I have a lot of respect for my opponent,” said the 38-year-old Seldin, who announced the impending arrival of “Baby Hammer” with his wife in the ring following the bout. “He’s very durable. I stuck to my game plan – a lot of pressure and power. I deserved to win.”

Sticking to Solano’s chest whenever he got the opportunity, Seldin outworked the Colombian on the inside, yet with each man seemingly unable to hurt each other, the result was a fight featuring some entertaining exchanges but little drama.

After a week of media that put his story around the boxing world, local favorite Sean O’Bradaigh got a fight out of Brazil’s Jefferson Almeida and was forced to dig deep to salvage a majority draw in the pro debut for both men.

Scores in the cruiserweight bout were 39-37 O'Bradaigh, 38-38, 38-38.

Using his counters effectively early, O’Bradaigh was progressively dragged into a brawl by the shorter and more aggressive Almeida, who had his foot on the gas throughout the bout. The New Yorker showed some grit to give as good as he got, and he’s ready to go again.

“I’d like to do it again,” said O’Bradaigh, whose trainer wants him to return at 168 pounds. “I want to keep going.”

Northern Ireland’s Donagh Kerry made it 1-0 as a pro in the featherweight opener, as he shut out Geral Alicera-Romero over four rounds.

All three judges scored it 40-36 for Kerry. Puerto Rico’s Alicea-Romero falls to 0-1-1.

Alicea-Romero was game throughout, but Kerry controlled the action from the start behind a crisp body attack and stiff jabs upstairs, making the result a foregone conclusion as early as the opening frame.