Just 19 rounds into his professional profession, 23-year-old light flyweight sensation Daiya Kira is a world champion after blowing away division stalwart Carlos Canizales this morning in Yokohama.
In what was by all accounts a dominant displaying, Kira (5-0, 4 KO) dropped Canizales (28-4-1, 20 KO) within the third, outclassed him by the center rounds, then completely thumped him with one of many loudest left hooks I’ve heard shortly within the seventh. Canizales someway beat the rely, however unsteady legs prompted the referee to intervene.
For these unfamiliar with Canizales, doing this to him at any age is a feat. His solely prior stoppage loss got here on the heels of a prolonged layoff and his subsequent defeats have been a razor-thin resolution loss to Kenshiro Teraji and a later-avenged theft courtesy of Panya Pradabsri. Doing this to him in your fifth professional combat after solely going previous the second spherical as soon as is ludicrous. Keep an eye fixed on this child.