Fabio Wardley was confronted with a defeat in the face against Justis Huni – before a blow turned the tide.
The Brit looked into real problems during Saturday’s WBA Interim heavyweight collision In Ipswich.
Fighting at home, Wardley was the tough favorite to go into the game.
But Huni dominated from the beginning and took control of a 20,000-member crowd on one Soggy Portman Road.
The Aussie stood for miles ahead on the cards when the fight entered the championship rounds.
From nowhere, wardley delivered a towering right hand early in the 10th to close a remarkable victory.
The scor cards of the judge made grim for the 6FT5 heavyweight prior to its beautiful KO.
Wardley was on all three cards, with two of the jury members who just gave him A round.
A fan craved X: “He was also bad, wow.”
Another said: “I didn’t give Wardley a round. The 1st round was close, but I thought Huni made it with cleaner punches.”
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While a third added: “These were very accurate score cards in a fight in a hometown for once.”
Wardley’s promoter Frank Warren described the knockout punch as a “deontay wilder moment”.
Wardley pushes the victory in consideration of the world title.
It was his 18th knockout in 19 professional victories.
He said, “I don’t claim I’m one [Oleksandr] Usyk or Justis Huni who has all the skills.
“But I know how to win fights and that is one thing that I knew to do tonight.
“Justis Huni is a great operator. We had drilled everything over and over again.
“I should have performed better in some of those rounds.”
Huni The American Jarrell Miller replaced in the short term.
The Australian suffered his first professional defeat after 12 consecutive victories.
Referring to the Big Ko Punch he said: “That’s my curse.
“I even said before this fight that it only takes one second to switch off, it happened tonight.”
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