Prajanchai delivered one other lights-out efficiency en path to retaining his ONE strawweight Muay Thai world championship at ONE Combat Night time 28 in Bangkok.
After a reasonably conservative opening spherical that noticed each fighters sizing up each other, issues actually started to pop off within the second with the Thai titleholder opening up his hanging and busting open his opponent, British slugger Ellis Badr Barboza, with a slick inside elbow.
By the point we reached the third, Prajanchai was in clear management of the competition and even started to do some trash-talking, a lot to the delight of the hometown crown.
Close to the two-minute mark of the penultimate spherical, the Thai caught Barboza with one other inside elbow to the identical eye he’d busted open early. This brought on the minimize to open up even additional, leaving the Brit with a totally cut up eyelid. Seeing the injury, referee Olivier Coste paused the competition to have ringside docs check out the damage. Moments later Coste waived off the bout, awarding the competition to Prajanchai through a technical knockout within the fourth spherical.
Official End result: Prajanchai def. Ellis Badr Barboza through TKO (physician’s stoppage) at 1:55 of Spherical 4 to retain the ONE strawweight Muay Thai world championship
Take a look at highlights from Prajanchai vs. Ellis Badr Barboza at ONE Combat Night time 28:
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Dominant strawweight title protection for Prajanchai. On prime of a number of cuts, a deep gash above Ellis Barboza’s left eye proved an excessive amount of, prompting the ringside physician to cease the combat.#ONEFightNight28 pic.twitter.com/HICng4TVgP
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