Kempsey boxer Renold Quinlan delivered on his promise, earning a knockout victory in the first round against Alexander Bajawa in Singapore on Friday night.
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Quinlan immediately put Bajawa on the back foot with a superior reach allowing for him to land multiple left jabs to the face before he ended the fight with a right hook into Bajawa’s body.
“I normally head hunt but I’ve been working on my body shots and I had pictured in my head exactly how the fight was going to end,” Quinlan said.
“I said it wouldn’t go longer than a round and that’s what happened.
“My jabs made him raise his hands and it opened up the body and I put one right under his ribs and he went down to his knee and couldn’t get up.”
The dominant victory in his middleweight debut will allow Quinlan to return to the ring soon and discussions are already underway for a fight in early December.
Quinlan has a contract in front of him for a bout in Russia against Fedor Chudinov at the super middleweight division but Quinlan is holding out for a chance to become Australia’s number one boxer in middleweight.
The Dunghutti Warrior is hopeful arrangements will be made to take on Sam Soliman, who is currently the top rank middleweight in the country.
The 43-year-old has 59 professional bouts of experience and boasts a record of 45-14.
Quinlan prefers to remain at the middleweight division but will take either fight.
“Hopefully I will know in the next week who my opponent will be,” Quinlan said.
“There’s more opportunities at middleweight and I want to establish myself in the division but until now my whole career has been at super middlewight so I won’t back down from the challenge.
“My team know the direction that we want to head in and we have a good game plan.”
Quinlan has returned to Kempsey and will return to training immediately.
The 28-year-old improved his professional record to 12 wins and two losses with eight wins by knockout.