Tyson Cave wins World Boxing Union super bantamweight championship

Boxing historywasmade Saturday night at theDartmouth Sportsplexas hometown favourite Tyson Cave beatWalterRojasof Argentina in less than two rounds to claim the World Boxing Union super bantamweight title.

Cave, 34, is the first Nova Scotia-born boxer to win a world title on home soil.

• Tyson Cave vies for WBU super bantamweight title

Rojas was a late fill-inforMexico's Jesus Rios, who was unable to get a visa.

Rojas hadwon 24 of his previous 32 fights, butlost his last two bytechnical knockout.

Cave is not the first Nova Scotian-born boxer to win a world title. George Dixon has that honour after beingcrowned world bantamweight champion in 1888.