Boxing
Joe Cordina celebrates 'an amazing feeling' after 'lights out' knockout of Kenichi Ogawa
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Joe Cordina revelled in his triumph over Kenichi Ogawa with a second round knockout in Cardiff to claim the IBF super featherweight title.
The Welshman enjoyed the biggest victory of his career in his backyard and quickly moved on to target a unification fight with fellow champion Shakur Stevenson.
“We call it the Roberto Duran, we have been working on it all camp,” Cordina said of his knockout, after the fight. “It’s an amazing feeling when you put hours and hours and hours of work into a combination or a punch and then you put it into a fight and it comes off and lights out.”
Ogawa came in as an impressive champion and had just a single defeat to his name.
While he was expected to be a threat in the ring, it was the Welshman who brushed off his opponent’s power and dealt a decisive blow in swift time. The 30-year-old played down the challenge after securing victory.
“It feels amazing,” Cordina continued. “He is down as a puncher on paper, but it was nothing I hadn’t felt before. But I had sparred with Conor Benn for this so that doesn’t compare.”
