Daniels’s Ninth-Round Surge Took Green’s World Titles
Lani Daniels stopped Shadasia Green at 0:32 of round nine on April 17, 2026, at the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. The MVPW 02 co-main event awarded Daniels the IBF and WBO women’s super middleweight championships.
The matchup and early action
Green entered as the defending unified champion at 168 pounds. Daniels arrived from New Zealand with experience at higher weights and an opportunity to claim another major result on an international stage.
The scheduled ten-round contest formed the championship support to Alycia Baumgardner’s defense against Bo Mi Re Shin. Both featured matchups were central to MVPW’s first United States event.
The decisive developments
Daniels’s decisive attack came early in the ninth, when she increased the pressure and trapped Green near a corner. A concentrated burst of punches forced the referee to intervene before the round could develop further.
The official technical knockout arrived thirty-two seconds into that round. Green’s reign ended inside the distance, leaving no need for the judges to determine whether Daniels had accumulated a winning points advantage.
What the result meant
The victory transferred the IBF and WBO belts to Daniels and changed the super middleweight championship picture. It stood in contrast to the main event, where Baumgardner retained her titles by unanimous decision.
For Daniels, the result supplied a major overseas breakthrough through persistence and a late finishing surge. The contest had already moved deep into its scheduled distance, but she found the offensive sequence that turned a title challenge into a completed championship victory in New York.
Sources
- MVP: official event results
- Madison Square Garden: championship format and venue
- Fightmag: finish and title results
- Athlon: ninth-round sequence
