Dubois fought early in the night on the prelims in front of a lightly filled Kaseya Center – the 20,000-seat home of the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
She walked to the ring singing along to Whitney Houston’s ‘I’m Every Woman’ and started confidently, moving in and out of range and repeatedly beating Panatta to the punch.<\/p>\n
A straight left from the champion’s southpaw stance landed cleanly and regularly in the third round as the gap in class became increasingly clear.<\/p>\n
“Lovely, Caroline, keep going,” shouted stablemate and former cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith from the crowd as Dubois pressed forward.<\/p>\n
Dubois whipped a body shot into Panatta’s midriff in the fifth and again in the sixth, each drawing nods of approval from ringside.<\/p>\n
Moments later came the knockdown. As Panatta dipped to attack the body, Dubois slipped the shot and fired a perfectly timed counter to the chin. <\/p>\n
Panatta, 34, crashed to the canvas in a heap.<\/p>\n
She rose quickly but looked shaken; her brief grin doing little to disguise the effect of the punch. <\/p>\n
With little time left in the round, Panatta managed to see out the bell.<\/p>\n
Dubois increased the intensity in the closing stages, varying her work by mixing jabs and uppercuts, while a marked-up Panatta had few answers as the champion comfortably closed out the final rounds.<\/p>\n
It meant there was little doubt when the scorecards were read out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubois fought early in the night on the prelims in front of a lightly filled Kaseya Center –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-359484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}