Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nPaulo Aokuso won the fight.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
After a spray from his corner, the Aussie gun worked his way back into the bout and landed the final blow with two minutes and 45 second left of the fight to secure the sixth KO of his career.<\/p>\n
Aokuso danced backwards, returning serve with a left hook that left Tejeda lying flat on the canvas.<\/p>\n
The victory saw Aokuso claim the vacant IBF Pan Pacific light heavyweight title and improve his record to an unbeaten 11-0.<\/p>\n
\u201cAokuso finishes the job, a monstrous left hand from nowhere, introducing Paulo Aokuso,\u201d Ben Damon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe walked through the fire, he was in real trouble in that fight, but the sharpness of that equaliser… the perfect punch at just the right time.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaulo Aokuso with a final round knockout… from absolutely nowhere, Paulo Aokuso. Well he looked in some level of trouble only a couple of rounds prior.<\/p>\n
\u201cTejeda is sitting up but he was stopped brutally in this final round.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, American boxing great Shawn Porter added: \u201cThat was a big moment for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that was something that should have happened a good four or five rounds sooner than it did. A fight that I thought he made it hard on himself. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople ask where did that second wind come from? Well, when you start to do the right things, you rejuvenate yourself and you start to have more success. You feel good about what\u2019s going on and that last round going into it, I expected him to do exactly what he did. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe closed the show and reminded anyone or showed anyone who didn\u2019t know who he was, exactly who Paulo Aokuso is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking after the victory, Aokuso also admitted he started the fight slow \u2014 but then delivered when it mattered most.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was a great fight. Massive credit to my opponent, he brought the best out of me,\u201d Aokuso said post-fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fell asleep in the beginning but as soon as I heard the crowd in the last round, I thought I had to turn it on, so that\u2019s what happened and I knocked him out.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for his next bout, he said \u201cwhatever No Limit has for me… send me the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulo Aokuso has come \u201cfrom absolutely nowhere\u201d to secure a win over Luis Antonio Tejeda with a staggering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-824434","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\/824434","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=824434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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