Welcome to news.com.au’s live blog of the Australian super welterweight title fight between defending champion Dylan Biggs and Nikita Tszyu from Newcastle.
The long-time slanging match will finally be decided in the ring as 21-year-old 10-0 champion Biggs finally gets to face the younger Tszyu, who is at 7-0.
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Biggs ended his last fight in the first round with a savage KO of Ryan Mitcham, but will face a much-harder fight against Tszyu.
The pair were meant to fight back in May, before Tszyu went to fight Benjamin Bommber, claiming a win in a first-round KO. Tszyu has also beaten Jack Brubaker since.
But the big night is finally here, and, now that the talking is done, both men will have to show what they’ve got in the ring.
The pair are expected to walk to the ring at about 10pm AEDT.
Full card
Nikita Tszyu vs Dylan Biggs
Issac Hardman vs Troy Coleman
Liam Talivaa vs Brandon Grach
Mounir Fathi vs Joel Pavlides
Jason Fawcett vs Jordan Martin
Brent Walton vs Dharringarra Trewhella
Natasha Kurene defeated Amber Amelia via unanimous decision (59-55×2, 58-56)
Mark Schleibs defeated Shamal Ram Anuj by KO, round 5 (2.22)
6.26pm — ‘He’s asleep’: Insane KO stuns commentators
The night has opened with an insane start after Mark Schleibs demolished Shamal Ram Anuj with what two-time world champion Billy Dib called the “knockout of the year”.
In the fifth of six rounds, Schleibs backed the Fijian into the corner, before unleashing a jaw shattering punch on Anuj.
The KO blow left the Fijian on the canvas in scary scenes as he was draped over the rope in the corner.
The doctor spend plenty of time with Anuj but he was eventually helped up onto the stool before he left the ring.
Billy Dib said: “Wow, he’s asleep.”
Dan Ginnane added: “He is celebrating already, that’s a vicious shot that’s ended this fight and Mark Schleibs is back,”
“Wow, what a statement.”
Barry Michael added: “What a knockout. One of the best knockouts I’ve seen in ages. Unbelievable knockout.”
Dib asked: “Is that knockout of the year? That’s got to be knockout of the year. That has to be knockout of the year.”
It’s a return to the winner’s circle for the Melburnian Schleibs, who had lost his last two fights to Brock Jarvis and Rocky Ogden, having dropped back to bantamweight, after stepping up to super bantam for the two losses.
It takes his record to 13-2 with two KOs.
