Joe Cordina produced a stunning knockout in the second round to become the IBF featherweight super champion against Kenichi Ogawa.
The Japanese boxer stepped in as the defending champion and his aggressive style and no-nonsense attitude looked like he could trouble the 15-year-old Cordina.order Fight.
The Welshman stepped into the sound of Tom Jones’ ‘Delilah’ with the support of the roaring hosts Cordina before a punch was even delivered. The country’s national anthem, always inspiring, gets everyone to ring the bell first but no one and I mean nobody can predict what’s coming.
Ogawa tackled better in the first half and unleashed a left hook that caught Cordina’s attention. And then one of the two eye-catching ones landed enough evidence that the 34-year-old wasn’t just here to enjoy the money DAZN made to get him to Wales.
The champions’ offensive tactics are likely to produce moments of drama at several points in the fight and the question is how the ‘Mage of Wales’ will respond. And in the second half, the 30-year-old concocted a diabolical potion that began with a stab before his right hand ignited and ill-intentioned knocked Ogawa down and knocked him out at 15 seconds. .
The referee’s score is almost unimportant. What happened was a shock to the system for everyone except Wales 13order Cordina world champion. Ogawa’s eight-month reign was destroyed in less than six minutes by a new star of the feathered superclass.
The super leagues will run for free with what Cordina did tonight at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena and rightly so. This is supposed to be a kneeling test, a defining night where we find out where his future lies. The new IBF Champion is a potent combination of skill, jutsu and knockout prowess that will keep every 130lbs contender on notice, including number one in the division Shakur Stevenson.
“I was a bit speechless,” Cordina said in a post-fight interview with DAZN’s Chris Lloyd.
Regarding the knockout punch itself, it was revealed that the punch has a special name: “We call it Roberto Duran. We worked on the whole camp. It’s a great feeling when you put hours of work into some punch, and it goes off and on. “
Cordina lifted her undefeated record (15-0.9 KOs) while Ogawa moved in (26-2-1, 18 KOs).
