Kiwi heavyweight boxer Junior Fa made a statement in the 13th fight of his professional career yesterday after he completely annihilated Fred Latham for a TKO win in the first round.
Fa needed just 67 seconds to knock out Latham in the fight scheduled for eight rounds with the 28-year-old aggressively pursuing the American after he landed a clean one-two combo in the opening seconds of the fight.
That combination sent Latham back towards the ropes and that's where the fight eventually finished for him.
Fa relentlessly unloaded punch after punch in a never ending combination until the referee finally stepped in to stop the bout in front of an impressed Cleveland crowd.
The win now moves Fa, who famously beat WBO heavyweight champion and fellow Kiwi Joseph Parker as an amateur, to 13-0 in his professional career with eight knock outs.
Fa told 1 NEWS last month his big goal was to face Parker again - but this time for the world title.
"My plan is to get ranked in the WBO, get as many fights as I possibly can through them and get my mandatory up," he said.
"If he (Parker) still has the belt, it would be a great domestic world championship fight right here in New Zealand. That will be awesome."
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