BOXING fans were stunned after Yoshiki Takei KO’d Ronnie Baldonado in devastating fashion with a sickening body shot.
The flyweights faced off on the undercard of Naoya Inoue’s dominant win over Stephen Fulton in Tokyo.
Inoue produced a sublime eighth-round stoppage in the main event, but there was an equally ruthless knockout earlier on in the evening.
Takei, 27, dropped Baldonado in the third round of their contest inside the Ariake Arena.
And the shot that did the damage was a vicious punch to the midriff of the Filipino fighter.
As is often the case with body shots, the impact from Takei’s left hand did not initially seem to hurt Baldonado.
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But after the pain set in, he dropped to the canvas and failed to beat the referee’s count.
It was a KO which sent boxing social media into meltdown as the reaction from Baldonado left fans feeling his discomfort through the screen.
One said: “The delayed reaction shows how painful that was.”
Another added: “The sound of a wrecked liver…whew buddy.”
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A third replied: “My stomach hurts.”
And a fourth responded: “What a shot 🤯.”
Takei moves onto 7-0 as a professional, while Baldonado now has six defeats from 23 contests.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
