GOLD COAST, Australia – The promising Teremoana Teremoana earned his ninth stoppage victory from his ninth professional contest when he stopped Mexico’s German Garcia Montes inside the opening round.
On the undercard of the IBF cruiserweight title fight between the champion Jai Opetaia and Huseyin Cinkara at the Gold Coast Convention Centre he had promised a more “patient” approach.
If he started with one in mind he regardless soon abandoned it. After jabbing his way into the earliest exchanges he risked greater aggression, and was in turn caught by a right hand.
He responded by prioritising crosses and hooks and therefore neglecting his jab, and in repeatedly hurting his 37-year-old opponent he was also caught by another right – his face by then was red from the first – and maintaining a consistent attack until the quickly tiring Montes was sent to the canvas by a left.
The Mexican fell sufficiently heavily he appeared unlikely to recover. He returned to one knee and considered fighting on, but instead remained stationary, ensuring that he was counted out after two minutes and 37 seconds.
Ben Mahoney – like Teremoana of Australia – had by then won inside six rounds at junior middleweight against Winston Hill. He dropped the Fijian in the first round – when he also threatened to stop him – and the fifth, before a body punch successfully stopped the previously undefeated Hill in the sixth.
There was also a stoppage victory for the former WBO junior-featherweight champion Jason Maloney, on the occasion of his first fight back in his home country for three years, when he defeated Herlan Gomez of the Philippines inside four. Gomez was hurt in the first and fortunate to survive; the early ending, when it arrived in the fourth, was inevitable.
There was also a stoppage victory for the light heavyweight Austin Aokuso, in the second of his four-round match-up with Emmanuel Danso. Taylah Gentzen earned a unanimous decision at the end of eight two-minute rounds at lightweight against Jessica Adams, and the 10-round super-middleweight contest between Jack Gregory and Hayden Emmerson was scored a draw.
