Ben Whittaker returned to the scene of his electrical professional debut to attain one other dramatic knockout victory.
He beat Stiven Leonetti Dredhaj on the Chris Billam-Smith vs Mateusz Masternak undercard on the Bournemouth Worldwide Centre.
Whittaker utilized a fourth-round end with a wickedly fast and cruelly highly effective straight right-left mixture.
Whittaker made an entrance as solely he can. A ballerina preceded him, to restrained notes from a hidden piano earlier than, the Wolverhampton man, in an ornate gown, stepped onto the stage.
He was greeted with cheers, and his showboating generated the occasional gasp.
However he caught heavy punches into Dredhaj.
He blasted a cross by means of, that knocked the Italy-based Albanian again a couple of paces.
Whittaker took moments to bop, actually not metaphorically, after touchdown pictures and he pirouetted himself away from Dredhaj’s jab.
He discovered the placements for meaty left hooks, hits that landed with an audible thud.
Dredhaj charged into him, and despite the fact that they have been tangled collectively, someway Whittaker managed to slap a proper hook into his face.
The Albanian backed off on the finish of the second spherical as Whittaker walked him down. Pressure between them threatened to go too far after they butted heads too after the bell.
The bout obtained tough within the third spherical, Whittaker clipping his antagonist with a hook as Dredhaj rushed at him.
The Albanian felt a tough shot and dropped to a knee. He managed, on rising, although to stab a stern quick left into Whittaker’s chin.
That prompted one other bout of cheerful showboating with Whittaker trying away from his opponent.
The referee paused the motion then to provide Whittaker a telling off, which the gang heartily jeered.
Within the subsequent spherical Whittaker stepped in to shut the present, with a blasting two-punch mixture that laid Dredhaj out flat on his again.
There was no persevering with from that.
Their hostility was immediately forgotten as Whittaker ultimately helped his fallen opponent to his toes and they might embrace within the centre of the ring to a lot applause.
“I told you I’m back, baby! Bournemouth is where I started, and I ended the year pretty well here,” Whittaker stated afterwards.
“Let’s put our hands together for Stiven, a great fighter.
“The showboating drew him in. It was like burger, chips and a coke!”
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