Frank Sanchez delivered a jaw-dropping one-punch knockout to end Richard Torrez Jr.\u2019s undefeated run as part of the Usyk vs. Rico card on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Cuban born heavyweight ended the fight after he unleashed a brutal uppercut that cracked Torrez and sent him crashing to the canvas in a heap. Torrez was pretty clearly done, although he made an attempt to get back to his feet but the referee already knew the fight was over.<\/p>\n
The official stoppage came at 55 seconds into the second round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been working the whole time in the gym with my great team,\u201d Sanchez said after his win. \u201cI\u2019m ready for whoever is next. I had to work a lot, he was a pressure fighter but I know I\u2019m a great boxer and I can out box anyone when I\u2019m on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was working on my trainer a lot. I was in the dressing room [throwing the uppercut] and it came through.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was an impressive win for Sanchez, especially considering the attention being paid to Torrez as a potential title challenger in the future after he started his career with a perfect 14-0 record and winning a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n
That record now shows a loss after Sanchez delivered one of the nastiest knockouts in recent history.<\/p>\n
With the win, Sanchez also claims the title eliminator in the IBF heavyweight division, which puts him in line for a potential showdown against Oleksandr Usyk, who currently holds that title. Usyk competes in the main event on Saturday against former GLORY heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Sanchez delivered a jaw-dropping one-punch knockout to end Richard Torrez Jr.\u2019s undefeated run as part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85],"class_list":["post-690643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690643","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=690643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}