By Scott Gilfoid: #11 WBC heavyweight contender Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne (20-0, 18 KO’s) bludgeoned Eric Martel Bahoeli (10-4, 7 KO’s) into submission in five rounds on Saturday night to win the vacant Commonwealth and WBC Eurasian Pacific Boxing Council heavyweight titles at the Ponds Forge Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Browne showed huge, huge power in the fight, but he looked very slow and his work rate wasn’t as good as you’d like to see. Browne’s power was amazing though. You’ve got to give Bahoeli a lot of credit for being able to take the shots he was hit with.
Browne knocked Bahoeli to the canvas with a short right hand to the head in the 5th round to get the stoppage. Referee Richard James Davies then stepped in and halted the fight at 1:26 of the round. Browne knocked Bahoeli down once in the 2nd, 4th and 5th times. In the 3rd, Browne suffered a bad cut over his left eye from a clash of heads. The cut was a really bad one and it was pretty clear that Browne was racing against time after the cut occurred.
The referee stopped action in the 4th round to have the ringside doctor examine Browne’s cut. Luckily for him the ringside doctor let the fight continue. From the conversation with the doctor, Browne seemed to understand that he wasn’t going to be given much more time before the fight was halted, as he charged after Bahoeli and nailed him with a series of Deontay Wilder like right hands to the head to put him down on the canvas for a second time in the fight. Bahoeli showed a good chin to make it out of the round after eating some monstrous right hands from Browne.
In the 5th round, Browne backed Bahoeli to the corner and unloaded on him with a blizzard of sledgehammer shots to the jaw. Bahoeli then collapsed to the canvas in a heap. This time he was too hurt to get back to his feet. It’s a good thing he didn’t, because Browne would have likely poleaxed him with a single right hand.
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