00:00This is Paolo Sweet Pea of Kuzo.
00:14When action gets underway, referee in charge.
00:17Will Silas, boxers centering please, for your referee's instructions.
00:31All right, gentlemen, you received your instructions in the dressing rooms, remember, obey my instructions
00:37at all times, protect yourselves at all times, touch them up.
01:03Box, for everyone.
01:09That's all right, it's a slip.
01:11He's already called a slip.
01:13Stop, you all right?
01:16It's over.
01:18You all right to go on?
01:20Let's go.
01:21He's hurt, he's hurt, he's hurt.
01:22It's over.
01:23It's gonna be over soon.
01:26He's compromised.
01:27And why didn't he give him, that was a knock.
01:30He's injured.
01:34He's injured.
01:35He's injured.
01:36Get outside of the show.
01:37Get through.
01:39Get through.
01:42On a bad knee, if it's your back leg, you know, that could catch you by surprise.
01:47And it seems like he's hobbling.
01:48Let's see if he recovers out of it.
01:50Oh, jeez, he's got to avoid those.
01:52I like that move.
01:53At least he was able to catch himself on his plain foot, which is the back foot on that
01:56spin.
01:56So it seems like he's back, he's shaking it out.
01:58He's trying to shake out the leg.
02:00He can punch Kitty Pong.
02:01That is one thing we know about him.
02:03He's knockout record.
02:04I discussed.
02:06But, jeez, this does not bode well for his longevity in this fight.
02:13I'll tell you, Akuso with the nickname Sweet Pea, Southport, just like the original Sweet Pea,
02:17Perna Whittaker.
02:18Nice jab here.
02:19Yeah, absolutely.
02:21He's got a touch of quality about him, Akuso.
02:24You'll see as well as this continues on to the point where he can.
02:29But Kitty Pong comes forward.
02:31He tries to throw with some power, and then he switches the legs up.
02:35Oh, there he goes.
02:38Off the pivot, nice move there by Akuso setting up the new punching angle.
02:43Five, six, seven.
02:43Yeah, that leg's gone.
02:44So this is a matter of time, but he might get his way out of there now, Kitty Pong.
02:49No, he's tough.
02:50He's gonna continue, but, gee, I don't know for how long.
02:53And that's the thing, Akuso has such quick feet.
02:54He changed the angle so quickly, it's gonna be more difficult for him.
02:57Oh, dear.
02:58Big left hands from Akuso, and he has a man just stuck there in front of him right now.
03:06Right, right, step back.
03:06Kitty Pong wants to engage, but the problem is that Akuso changes the angle so quickly,
03:10and Kitty Pong can't catch himself changing the angle that fast.
03:13Oh!
03:14Down and hard, and he clutches the knee, and it's time for him to go.
03:18Oh!
03:20And it is a first-round knockout victory for Polo Akuso against a man
03:27who clearly, well, I don't know if that's gonna help.
03:32Yeah.
03:33Kind of a shame.
03:34It could've been, on paper, it was a nice little matchup, you know,
03:37but that kind of injury is really, really tough to overcome,
03:40especially against a guy like Akuso, who, as I was saying,
03:42changes the angle so fast, it forces you to also adjust and pivot with him.
03:46And on a bed, on a bum knee like that, it's very difficult to change the angle
03:51and adjust with Akuso.
03:53Is this coach, what's he trying to do?
03:54Pull the knee out of...
03:56I don't know if that is...
03:58Maybe it's the approach where you do with the shoulder,
04:00you put it back in the socket?
04:01I'm not sure it's the same with the knee, but I get the theory.
04:05I guess maybe he's learning on the job as well.
04:07Yeah.
04:07But it's not gonna help Kitty Pong, I don't think.
04:11Yeah.
04:11Now he's trying to be more gentle.
04:13Yeah, yeah.
04:13Maybe you go and help Paulie, I don't know.
04:15No, no, I'm just as bad as him, unfortunately.
04:17As bad as him?
04:18Here was the start.
04:19There was a step and jab with...
04:21And you see the...
04:22Kitty Pong would try to take a big step back and...
04:24And when he landed on that big step back, the knee was bothering him already.
04:29It was the start.
04:30It probably should have been the end as well because...
04:32This was a nice little...
04:33Again, that was a little angle change off the pivot.
04:36And that's what I mean about Kitty Pong.
04:37You see Akuso spins out and changes the angle quickly.
04:40And Kitty Pong cannot keep up there.
04:42And here's the final, the end.
04:43It was just...
04:45That's it.
04:45And you know what that is, too.
04:46The left hand lands for Akuso.
04:48It forces all the way back on Kitty Pong's back leg like that.
04:51And Kitty Pong clearly couldn't sustain that weight.
04:55Well, it's not the way he would have wanted to do it, Paulo Akuso.
04:59I know he was keen to put on a show here today.
05:02But one thing that he can take heart from after a really strong performance
05:08against a clearly wounded opponent is that he will go into the world rankings.
05:14As a result of this victory.
05:17And...
05:18Well, I don't think that will help.
05:20I really don't.
05:22I'm not sure the theory there.
05:24It's not a cramp.
05:28Regardless, that's the methodology they're going with.
05:31And there is Kitty Pong.
05:32And it has been a terrible Easter Sunday for him here in Wollongong.
05:36But a good one for Paulo Akuso as we head to Stephen Payos.
05:41Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a round of applause, please, for Kitty Pong Jaan Hao Ho.
05:50As he gets ready to exit the arena from outside the ring.
05:53Time to make this one official.
05:55The end comes 2 minutes and 20 seconds into round number one.
05:59Referee, Will Sulos, calls a stop to the contest.
06:01Officially, we have a TKO to your victor.
06:04Who also becomes the new IBF Pan Pacific light heavyweight champion...
06:10...and...
06:11...and...
06:12...Paulo...
06:13...Sweepy...
06:15...A...
06:16...Cuso!
06:23Well, congratulations, Paulo Akuso.
06:25I guess...
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