It was a right uppercut that sent Tahikia tumbling to one knee, spitting out his mouthguard and refusing to answer the full 10 count, making Morini the winner by knockout.<\/p>\n
Also on the Fiji fightcard were Morini\u2019s stablemates from Peach Boxing, Hand and Nesbitt, both from Auckland.<\/p>\n
Hand took on Isimeli Dautokidavui, of Fiji.<\/p>\n
Dautokidavui fought on the outside of the ring, as Hand walked him down.<\/p>\n
Dautokidavui was not throwing anything heavy, trying to work out Hand.<\/p>\n
However, Hand threw his hands with intentions, winning the fight by stoppage, with Dautokidavui needing to be assisted back to his corner.<\/p>\n
Hand is expected to return to the ring on May 15 in a Peach Boxing show.<\/p>\n
His next opponent has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Nesbitt took on Indian boxer Aarti Hooda.<\/p>\n
The fight was the fight of the night, as it ended in a major controversy.<\/p>\n
Throughout the high-action, eight-round fight, both boxers landed very clean, very heavy shots.<\/p>\n
It was a very close result. <\/p>\n
Originally, the three judges had Hooda as the winner by split decision, scoring the fight 75\u201377 (Nesbitt), (Hooda) 78\u201375, and (Hooda) 77\u201375.<\/p>\n
However, at least an hour after the fight, the judges overturned their decision, saying the scorecards had been added up incorrectly.<\/p>\n
They said one of the scores, initially voted to be in favour of Hooda, was actually a draw.<\/p>\n
This meant the result of the Nesbitt v Hooda fight was changed to a split-decision draw, with no clear winner.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Fiji\u2019s Mai TV, Hooda was visibly upset and said she was disappointed in the decision change.<\/p>\n
A sponsor of Hooda\u2019s team, Vyas Deo Sharma, said in the interview that he would challenge the decision change.<\/p>\n
Peach Boxing team said it hoped for a rematch between Nesbitt and Hooda later in the year or next year. <\/p>\n
Benjamin Watt is a retired boxing judge and New Zealand boxing writer with a decade of experience. Watt has also been BoxRec\u2019s New Zealand record-keeper since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a right uppercut that sent Tahikia tumbling to one knee, spitting out his mouthguard and refusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,16485,802,179911,16488,1913,3739,281213,85642,2990,322,33371,257630,17600,107257,281212,85,281214,16494,9995,8935],"class_list":["post-573095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-bx9","tag-eyes","tag-fight","tag-fiji","tag-kaliova","tag-knocking","tag-knockout","tag-local","tag-matamata","tag-morini","tag-scores","tag-sonny","tag-southpaw","tag-sports","tag-tahikia","tag-tournament","tag-welterweight","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573095","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=573095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}