{"id":39353,"date":"2022-05-30T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=39353"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:21:05","slug":"sabari-j-knocks-out-australian-michael-pengue-to-lift-wbc-australasia-pro-boxing-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=39353","title":{"rendered":"Sabari J knocks out Australian Michael Pengue \u00a0to lift WBC Australasia Pro Boxing Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-39352\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sabari_J-Boxing.jpg\" alt=\"Sabari J Boxing\" style=\"display: block; margin: 8px auto;\" width=\"562\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sabari_J-Boxing.jpg 562w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sabari_J-Boxing-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sabari_J-Boxing-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/>Sydney: <\/strong>In a historic moment for Indian Boxing, WBC-India champion Sabari J shocked Australian Michael Pengue with a knockout in the 8th round at Sydney on Saturday Night. As a result, Sabari was crowned the new WBC Australasia Champion in the Welterweight division.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201c10 round\u201d contest with the local favourite, in hostile conditions was always going to be a tough task for Sabari J.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Pengue, also known as the \u201cPunisher\u201d, was the favourite to win the fight. He came into this event with 2 consecutive wins in his last 2 outings. Pengue had won the vacant WBC Australasia title in December 2021 by a 10 round points decision over fellow compatriot Jorge Kapeen.<\/p>\n<p>The Boxing Underdog<\/p>\n<p>The Tamilnadu boxer, Sabari J, has always responded very well to being the underdog in a fight. He had won the WBC India title in December 2021 via a 8 round Split Decision victory over Akashdeep Singh at Hyderabad. Sabari, was the underdog in that fight too.<\/p>\n<p>Last night he oozed confidence right from the first bell. Sabari out-punched Pengue in every round. By the eighth round, the Australian was exhausted.&nbsp; With a minute to go in the 8th round, a hard right from Sabari sent Pengue to the canvas.&nbsp; A knockdown count followed from the Referee to wait for Pengue to get back onto his feet, failing which he waved his hands to call an end to the fight.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of stoppage, Sabari, was ahead on the scorecards of 2 out of the 3 judges assigned by the World Boxing Council and Australian Boxing commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSabari was a little low on confidence ahead of the bout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;It was obvious, he saw almost everybody in the stadium cheering for the local boxer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;But I told him that he was equally good and just one good round will earn him half the spectators in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;He followed the plan and went all out in the first round to shock Pengue and the crowd with his energy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Once the first hurdle was crossed, Sabari gained a lot of confidence which helped him win the title,\u201d Sabari\u2019s coach and Manager, Kamal Mujtaba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: In a historic moment for Indian Boxing, WBC-India champion Sabari J shocked Australian Michael Pengue with a knockout in the 8th round at Sydney on Saturday Night. As a result, Sabari was crowned the new WBC Australasia Champion in the Welterweight division. A \u201c10 round\u201d contest with the local favourite, in hostile conditions was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing-boxing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sabari J knocks out Australian Michael Pengue \u00a0to lift WBC Australasia Pro Boxing Title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=39353\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sabari J knocks out Australian Michael Pengue \u00a0to lift WBC Australasia Pro Boxing Title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sydney: In a historic moment for Indian Boxing, WBC-India champion Sabari J shocked Australian Michael Pengue with a knockout in the 8th round at Sydney on Saturday Night. 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