Sonny Knight vs Laban Stringer (28-08-2024) Full Fight
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00:00All right, boys, I want no punching in the back of the head, I want no kidney shots and
00:05I want you to keep them up.
00:06In the event of a knockdown, the standing fighters to go to the neutral corner over
00:09there or the one behind me.
00:11Now touch them up, boys, and best of luck to both of you.
00:15Expect Stringer to come forward.
00:17He's all action, he's a pressure fighter and he can switch it, but Sonny comes in as the
00:22favorite for this bout.
00:24First fight of the No Limit Card.
00:26Welcome.
00:27Well, a big fight night here in Sydney, and Sonny Knight in the white and orange trunks.
00:36Two fights, two KOs.
00:37He's got plenty of power, and already getting good shots in on the Melbourne man.
00:49Trading blows in the middle of the ring.
00:52Stringer coming back.
00:53I've got to tell you, this is the kind of pace I like right here.
00:58Well, it's four rounds, they've got to get their work in quickly, and now Stringer already
01:03on the wobble.
01:04And look at Sonny Knight go, combinations, lefts and rights, and he's still going.
01:11He knew Stringer was going to be there to be hit.
01:15And doing what he's supposed to do in a four-round fight, you've got to come out and let him
01:19start flying.
01:20You can't wait in a four-round fight.
01:22He says his big punch, Sonny, is the straight right.
01:27He's got a few in the arsenal from what we've seen early.
01:29I like to see Knight close that right hand like that right there, sit down on it like
01:33he is now.
01:34Stringer in the corner briefly.
01:37Not yet midway through this opening round.
01:42Knight has started in very impressive fashion.
01:45There's the right getting through.
01:46He needs that right to the head.
01:53It's good defense right there from Stringer, but he's got to come right back.
01:57Stringer, an MMA fighter, had three fights, one, two, before moving to boxing, said his
02:04best asset in combat sport was fist fighting, so boxing was a natural transition.
02:09He wears a left there.
02:13There it is right there.
02:15I was going to say, he needs both hands.
02:16I see a lot of jabs from Stringer.
02:17Way to bring the one-two.
02:18The Sonny Knight crowd making some noise here.
02:19Uppercut there from Sonny.
02:20First fight of the night here.
02:21This is a great atmosphere here on Main Event.
02:22Had a great prelim card, but now we're into the major fights of the evening.
02:23The left hand on the right.
02:24The right hand on the right.
02:25The right hand on the right.
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02:58The right hand on the right.
02:59The right hand on the right.
03:01Left uppercut.
03:02That's counter right there.
03:06We got a counter from Sonny,
03:07then Stringer came right back with the right hand of his own.
03:13Closing moments of this opening round.
03:17Now Stringer just knocked back.
03:23Holding his ground here.
03:24Sonny Knight.
03:25Impressive opening round from him.
03:28So first time on a no-limit card for Sonny Knight.
03:32He said his last fight, 68 seconds,
03:34as we go into his corner.
03:35In through the nose.
03:40All right.
03:41Good start.
03:42Really good start.
03:43Okay?
03:44We're only going to make a couple of little adjustments.
03:46We're going to keep our lead hand a little bit higher all the time.
03:50Okay?
03:51We don't want to give him any options.
03:53You hearing me?
03:54Breathe in through your nose.
03:57Okay?
03:58And we're going to try and pick our footwork up just a little bit more.
04:01Okay?
04:02We can keep this fight at long range and have success.
04:05That's in his eye.
04:07Okay?
04:08We can keep it at long range.
04:09If he comes in and he wants a little bit in the middle,
04:11give it to him and then get back long again.
04:12You're controlling the ring really good.
04:15Okay?
04:16Yeah?
04:17The voice of Nathan Swindling,
04:18and I saw you, Sean, nodding your head with approval.
04:21Listen, that was great corner work right there.
04:23Straight to the point.
04:25Not too much information.
04:27Use your feet.
04:28Keep that left hand up and keep it on the outside.
04:31I love the information coming from the corner.
04:36Round number two.
04:37Only a four-round bout here.
04:39Getting through there from Stringer.
04:42One and two, his pro record.
04:46He lost a very entertaining fight with Zeke Campbell last time around.
04:52So the lesson there, not waste so many shots.
04:54Be a little bit more methodical.
05:00Yeah, being a little more methodical just simply means being patient
05:03and looking for the right shot,
05:05opposed to just going out, just throwing whatever comes to mind.
05:09And he had a tendency to be aggressive for the sake of it.
05:16In the middle of the ring here.
05:18See, this is that we can keep it on the outside
05:20that Coach was talking about.
05:22Because he just landed a nice, straight right hand to the body
05:25and got right back out.
05:31There's a right there from Blayden Stringer.
05:34He did get through.
05:36Yeah, that's what Stringer needs.
05:38He needs to get low and just keep pushing forward.
05:41Big overhands and big hooks.
05:45Believe it or not, the wide shots,
05:47those are the shots that are going to land first.
05:53And Sunday night, there's that uppercut.
05:56Well kept out, though.
06:03Never go in the distance. Knight never had to.
06:052-0, both KOs.
06:11The third round is when he won his debut fight.
06:16As we look two minutes into the second round.
06:19Two minutes into the second round.
06:21He's taking a lot of power off of his punches.
06:24Sonny, that is.
06:25He needs to start putting more pop on his shots.
06:36The fun part of being a young fighter,
06:38learning how to mix the power with the speed
06:41and make it work simultaneously.
06:44Takes some time to learn all that kind of stuff.
06:48Stringer seemingly having a better time of it
06:50in this second round.
06:52Yeah, I think he's more comfortable now.
06:54First round jitters.
06:56Also, Sonny pulled back.
06:58It was the advice of the corner, and I think it was good advice,
07:01but it allowed Stringer to get more comfortable
07:03and work for himself.
07:04A combination resulting in an uppercut,
07:06but then an uppercut from Stringer in retaliation.
07:0915 seconds to go in this second round.
07:13Getting busier now, Sunday night.
07:17Decent defense, though, from Stringer.
07:19Sure.
07:21Stringer, like, rolling and punching at the same time.
07:23That's good work from him.
07:25That's the midway point of this four-round bout.
07:35Much better, lady. Much better.
07:37That's a better round.
07:38There's no way they can get that round to him.
07:40Who knows?
07:43That should be all right.
07:44That's a much better round.
07:46You've got to keep working it like that.
07:48You've got to keep working it up and down.
07:52Keep working it up and down.
07:54He's tired. He's tired.
07:56Have you noticed he dropped?
07:58He's dropped the pace because he's tired.
08:00He's not used to it.
08:01That's why they wanted four rounds, not six,
08:03because he can't handle it.
08:04He's only good at sprinting.
08:06He's run out of juice.
08:08This is your turn now.
08:09It's your turn to come in now.
08:11He's going to bomb a lot.
08:13You've got to be careful with those bombs.
08:15You've got to be careful with those bombs.
08:22Rudy Ramirez from the Fight Militia Academy in Melbourne.
08:27I've got to imagine both corners told their fighters
08:29that they won that last round.
08:31A very close round.
08:33Could almost go either way,
08:35but I did have Sonny winning that last round as well.
08:39You do want him to step it up a little bit, don't you?
08:41I want him to step it up.
08:43Stringer's coach was right.
08:45They pulled back,
08:46and they didn't want this to be a six-round fight for a reason.
08:49We can see that the pace has really slowed down for Sonny.
08:55Busy early, though, in this third round.
08:57Yeah.
08:58Although, strong right there from Stringer.
09:04Combinations upstairs from Sonny Knight.
09:08Getting aggressive, Laban Stringer.
09:10A little bit more subdued and patient
09:12than we've seen in the past.
09:14It appears to be a good strategy.
09:16Now he's really going to work.
09:20And I like Stringer putting this on Sonny.
09:23He's putting himself in a really good position here
09:27by just continuing to punch.
09:29He's out-hustling Sonny at this point.
09:33Certainly.
09:36Matched Knight in terms of power shots at this point.
09:42In this current round.
09:45But it's Knight here with the left.
09:48There's so many ways to win a boxing match,
09:50especially when it's only four rounds.
09:52You don't have to be the smartest guy.
09:54You don't always have to be the fastest guy.
09:56Right now, the guy that believes in himself and his gas tank
09:59is the one who's winning this round, and that's Stringer.
10:02Yeah.
10:03Knight, is he wilting here?
10:05Is he just losing a bit of power in his punch?
10:09I think, again, you know,
10:11him being inexperienced as a professional,
10:13not understanding how to transition from power and speed.
10:17He needs power, and he needs it ASAP.
10:20Crabbe trying to lift him in.
10:22Sonny Knight.
10:23This is as long as he's gone in a professional bout.
10:29And Stringer.
10:30Hard to imagine.
10:31He's a machine.
10:32I'm sorry.
10:33Yeah, it's hard to imagine any fighter gassing out
10:35in just four rounds.
10:37But we can see Stringer is really putting some pressure on Sonny,
10:41and I think that that's also making him
10:43and wearing him down as well.
10:45The fizz in the Knight punches early in the round,
10:48it's not quite there at the moment.
10:50And Stringer continues to work and work overtime.
10:53Thirty seconds to go,
10:55and now Stringer really is landing shots at will.
10:58You can't deny what he's doing right now.
11:01He's clearly winning this round.
11:03He's out hustling Sonny, beating him to the punch
11:05and finishing the exchanges.
11:07And now lefts and rights.
11:09Perhaps not the power from Stringer,
11:11but he's certainly scoring points with those punches.
11:13They're all connecting, it seems.
11:15But now we see just a hint of blood here from Stringer
11:18for the first time.
11:19Wow.
11:20Good, strong finish from Stringer.
11:22He really has that energy.
11:24Oh, that's a strong finish from Stringer.
11:26Well, this is turning into a ripping opening fight here
11:29on the main event portion of the evening.
11:32Wow.
11:33We thought Knight may have won the first two.
11:36Yeah.
11:37Stringer appeared to be at his best in that round
11:41as we listen in to the Knight corner.
11:43Alright, there's no point in falling into a fight like that
11:46that you can't beat this guy.
11:48Alright?
11:49Look at me, give me some acknowledgement.
11:51Okay.
11:52Now, do you know what you've got to do to win this fight?
11:55You've got to be smart, you've got to move,
11:56you've got to keep those hands up.
11:58There's too many of those punches landed on the target that time.
12:00Lift our hands up and make that a priority
12:02and turn him and turn him.
12:04Okay?
12:05Now, instead of pitter pattering, save him, line him up
12:08and then hit him with some venom.
12:10Listen, last round, how bad do you want it?
12:13This is all your dreams.
12:14Right now then, lift.
12:15Water, water, water, quick.
12:18Nathan swaddling there.
12:20A little bit of panic there in the voice perhaps.
12:23He might be a bit worried.
12:24Well, I wouldn't say panic, but he definitely gave his fighter
12:29everything he needed before this last round.
12:31So, we come down to this.
12:32Three minutes left in this opening bout.
12:38Stringer in the black trunks.
12:39The jab there from Sonny.
12:43Sonny Knight has never been four rounds.
12:48Left jab on the chin of Stringer who has cleaned up.
12:51There was a bit of blood on the right side of his nose.
12:55So, this is what Knight left in the corner in the second round,
12:58or I'm sorry, the third round.
13:00He left his feet.
13:02Stringer just keeps going.
13:04It's not the most clinical, but it's certainly effective.
13:07They're all connecting with the head and Knight is rocked here
13:10as they trade blows.
13:11And the crowd here stands as they continue to go toe for toe
13:16in the middle of the ring.
13:17And there's still two minutes left.
13:21Well, this has gone up again.
13:23You got to love what Stringer's doing.
13:26I hate to see this time right here.
13:28That's the Knight mouth guard.
13:33Straight in.
13:35Right eye, let's go.
13:36Over here.
13:38I hate to see that time, man.
13:40Both guys were on a roll right there.
13:43Certainly showing some marks, Sonny Knight,
13:45particularly under the right eye,
13:46but the left eye starting to pop up as well.
13:52Stringer, lefts and rights.
13:55There's some haymakers in there.
13:59And then again, at about this point of each round,
14:02the power just diminishing a little from Sonny Knight
14:05as Stringer keeps coming forward and keeps throwing punches.
14:09Still a minute 25 to go.
14:13Knight's got his work cut out here.
14:15Absolutely.
14:16I mean, Knight's clearly the better fighter in terms of skill,
14:20but Stringer pretty much giving him everything he's got,
14:23leaving it all in the green.
14:24Stringer really attacking the head here,
14:26not trying to work the body,
14:28but it's Stringer here having more success.
14:33We had the same back home.
14:35That last round, you got to always leave it all in the ring.
14:38They're both doing that, but there's not much left, it seems,
14:41for Sonny Knight as he now is starting to bleed.
14:44The blood is now profuse as we see the lifts here from Stringer,
14:48followed by the right, 45 seconds to go.
14:51What a cracking opening bout this is.
14:55Knight here, can he lift in these closing moments?
14:58He might need to.
15:00Stringer keeps exchanging, keeps enjoying the exchange.
15:07The man from Melbourne, Sonny Knight,
15:11he just can't connect at the moment.
15:14Now Stringer, his punches starting to lose their fizz as well.
15:17It's been a sapping fight.
15:19I got to tell you, man,
15:20one of the best fights I've seen over here.
15:23And this is just fight number one.
15:25Stringer trying to finish strong,
15:27trying to win the last round.
15:29They stand toe to toe.
15:31This has been sensational.
15:33Now they finally finish, waiting for the bell,
15:36but they keep doing punches in the middle of the ring.
15:40And finally it comes to an end,
15:42and they stand as one here in the ICC.
15:52Well, that's just the entree, Sean.
15:56Yeah, right?
15:57Five bouts to go.
15:59Now, Laban Stringer pretty satisfied with his work,
16:02and will he should be.
16:03Started a little slowly, but he came home like a freight train.
16:07I got to tell you, man,
16:08that's a hell of an entree right there.
16:10I think led the way.
16:11Very impressive.
16:12I stood up and clapped, man.
16:14I got to applaud the effort of Stringer,
16:16and also I got to applaud as well the effort of Sonny
16:19to try to give it all he had at the end of that fight as well.
16:23You got to say, though,
16:24you understand why the Stringer camp wanted six rounds.
16:27Absolutely.
16:28I think they knew what this was going to be like.
16:30They knew they had a young guy in front of them,
16:32and if this was just a four-round fight,
16:34he might be able to last through the four, as we saw.
16:36But Stringer doing everything he needed to do
16:39to take control of the fight.
16:40The number one thing I like from him,
16:42continuing to punch nonstop.
16:44Didn't matter what was coming back.
16:46Didn't matter where Sonny Knight was going.
16:48Stringer kept following him, kept punching,
16:51swinging left and right.
16:52Remember what I told you.
16:53I said the wide shots were going to be the shots that were going to land,
16:56and everything coming from Stringer was left hook, right hook,
17:00and it was great.
17:01The mouth guard went flying in the fourth round.
17:03It actually gave Sonny a welcome break.
17:05Referee had to just pause proceedings,
17:07but really it was the end of round two
17:09where the tides started turning.
17:11This is a fascinating decision.
17:14We're about to hear here from Lieutenant Dan
17:17as we continue to watch the trade blows.
17:20The stats in the end favoured Stringer slightly.
17:24He seemed to connect a lot more.
17:26Sonny Knight bleeding in the end,
17:28and he'll be bruised in the morning.
17:30There's no question about that.
17:32Bit of blood, too, for Stringer.
17:35And that man is a man that thinks he might have got this.
17:41As we take you inside the ring,
17:44I believe Lieutenant Dan is ready with a decision.
17:54Ladies and gentlemen, what a way to open up proceedings.
17:58Can we please have a round of applause for these two warriors?
18:05After four rounds of action,
18:07we go to the judges' scorecards for a decision
18:10where we find a split decision winner.
18:13William Sola scores the competition 39-37, Stringer.
18:18Charlie Lucas scores the competition 39-37, Knight.
18:24And Leanne Reed scores the competition 40-36
18:28for your winner by split decision,
18:31fighting out of the blue corner,
18:34Sonny Leighton Knight!
18:47So what a start to our pay-per-view coverage.
18:50Three impressive wins now for rising star Sonny Knight,
18:53the 21-year-old from Newcastle.
18:55He is quickly making a name for himself
18:57after only turning pro at the end of last year.
19:00Jono Brown, Pete Bedell, Sean Porter are with me.
19:02Well, gents, we wondered how he'd handled the experience of Stringer,
19:05who's been in some really, really tough fights.
19:07It wasn't easy, but he obviously did enough right at the end, Brownie.
19:10That was like me and Pete were sitting up here playing a video game.
19:13How the punch was going on.
19:15There was no body shots, sure.
19:17You were right there, up and close.
19:19But that was unbelievable.
19:20They were throwing him from the car park.
19:22The resilience of both men was amazing.
19:24Did the judges get it right, Pete?
19:26I thought they got it wrong, Megan.
19:28I got to say, I thought Stringer, for me, was the better fighter.
19:31I thought Knight was tiring in the third round.
19:33It was a dominant, emphatic third round from Stringer.
19:35And then I thought he won the fourth round as well.
19:37I thought one of the judges' decisions was disgraceful.
19:39But what a fight.
19:41Let him go for 20 rounds, Sean.
19:43Oh, man, I really like Stringer.
19:45I thought he won the fight.
19:46We had one of the judges have that fight 4-0 for Knight.
19:50Which means that judge kind of read who was on this fight,
19:56and just assumed that Sonny was going to win his fight
19:59and judged every single round for him.
20:01And there clearly was at least two, if not three rounds,
20:04that Sonny clearly lost.
20:06Nonetheless, he squeaked by with this one.
20:08Can't afford to get a loss so early on in your career.
20:11I would suggest he go back to the drawing board,
20:14get that conditioning in order,
20:16and learn how to box a little bit better.
20:19What happens in that situation, Sean?
20:21Obviously, Sonny lost his head a bit
20:23and started exchanging when Stringer was coming at him.
20:26He lost his head and lost all his defense.
20:28I don't even think he lost his head.
20:29I think Stringer made him fight his fight.
20:32And what I mean by that is,
20:34the second and the third round,
20:36Sonny forgot about moving.
20:37He decided to stand.