WATCH: Portlaoise boxer secures victory with devastating first-round finish in Japan

TJ Doheny celebrates his victory over Ryohei Takahashi back in January 2019. Picture: Sportsfileplaceholder image
TJ Doheny celebrates his victory over Ryohei Takahashi back in January 2019. Picture: Sportsfile

Portlaoise's TJ Doheny, who fights out of New South Wales in Australia, secured his second successive knock-out victory on Tuesday, October 31 after he produced a deadly left-hook to knock out his American opponent Japhethlee Llamido in Korakuen Hall in Japan. The southpaw boxer came into the fight as a 5-1 outsider.

The win is Doheny's third victory on the trot in the same venue having beaten Ryosuke Iwasa in 2019 to capture the IBF Super Bantamweight belt while in June of this year, he defeated Kazuki Nakajima. The victory takes Doheny's record to 25 wins and 4 losses with 19 wins coming by way of knock-out. See below the shot which secured the victory for 'The Power'.

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