Breland Fought With Broken Hand

Mark Breland won the World Boxing Assn. welterweight title Friday with a left hand that was broken in the first round.

“I knew it was broken in the first round,” Breland said Saturday at Atlantic City, N.J., about 10 hours after he knocked out Harold Volbrecht of South Africa with a right hand to the jaw in the seventh round.

Breland’s manager, Shelly Finkel, said: “He, I and Joey (trainer Joe Fariello) debated about fighting, and Mark said, ‘I’d rather go on with it.’ ”

Finkel revealed Breland had broken a metacarpal bone in his left hand in September and rebroke it Dec. 23. The same bone was broken again Friday night.