{"id":96418,"date":"2021-07-07T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96418"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:01:25","slug":"tszyu-event-rocked-by-sickening-undercard-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=96418","title":{"rendered":"Tszyu event rocked by 'sickening' undercard KO"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the attention may have been on the clash between Tim Tszyu<\/a> and Stevie Spark in Newcastle tonight, but one of the undercards has produced a brutal knock-out. <\/p>\n

The first fight of the Tszyu-Spark card<\/a> was a bout between Miles Zalewski and Lee Fook, who was a last-minute replacement for Zalewski's original opponent, Paul Fleming.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>MORE: <\/strong>Tszyu's soul-crushing pledge for 'Cinderella Man'<\/a><\/p>\n

Fook began the fight well, holding his own in the first four rounds before Zalewski dealt him a harsh dose of reality in the fifth round.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old was sent crashing to the canvas after a lusty blow left him knocked out cold. <\/p>\n

\"Lee<\/p>\n

"Sickening left hook that left his opponent (lying) there for a full minute," Australian boxing icon Jeff Fenech said on commentary on MainEvent's coverage.<\/p>\n

"That was a devastating shot. A highlight-reel knockout from Miles Zalewski," co-commentator Ben Damon added.<\/p>\n

"First four rounds, nothing happened. Miles Zalewski said: 'Round Five is my round'. He told us in the commentary position. Then he stepped out and he did that. A massive shot."<\/p>\n

The loss was Fook's third in a row after making his boxing debut earlier in 2021, while Zalewski improved his record to an impressive 9-1 with his fourth stoppage win in a row.<\/p>\n

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All the attention may have been on the clash between Tim Tszyu and Stevie Spark in Newcastle tonight, but one of the undercards has produced […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96420,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96418\/revisions\/96420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}