Boxing Results: Norman Jr. keeps Sasaki unmoving: dominant and devastating WBO defense

WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. (28-0, 22 Kos) slaughtered badly overmatched #2 rank candidate Jin Sasaki (19-2-1, 17 Kos) in Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo on Thursday night with a brutal five-round knockout at Japanese Ota City General Gymnasium.

It was a one-sided battle with Norman Jr., dropping the much smaller Sasaki, 23, three times. The final had a left hook that was crushed to his head in the fifth round, so he flattened Sasak1 on his back, making him look cold.

Surprisingly, the judge gave a count, but Sasaki lay motionless on the canvas. The stop time was 46 seconds in the fifth round. Sasaka stayed on his back and was not moving for a while after the fight stopped. He looked so hurt.

The left hook that Norman Jr. dropped with him was a nicely connected brutal hook, and Sasaki had never seen it come.

In the first round, Brian Jr. defeated Sasaki twice, stopping him and bringing him closer. The first knockdown came from the left hook to the back of my head. It looked like Textbook rabbit punchThe judge should have warned him.

The replay showed it was a punch placed completely behind the head. It was a good form of Norman Jr.’s rabbit punch, but it was a bad thing that the judge didn’t abandon it. Later in the first round, Norman Jr. cornered Sasaki, unleashing a three-punch combination, putting him on the canvas for the second time in the round. One of the shots looked like a rabbit punch. Again, the judge said nothing, and the knockdown was endured.