Kieran Molloy warmed up for a giant homecoming with an eight-round exercise dwell on DAZN this night.
The Galway welterweight hopeful dominated Matthew King to such an extent he shut out the English fighter over eight.
The southpaw European Video games medal winner was greater than deserving of his 80-72 win. Dominating the whole lot of the battle, Molloy landed large and fixed over eight rounds and would have gotten the end however for cussed resistance from his opponent.
The win sees the southpaw transfer to 9-0 with a stadium title battle in Galway rumoured to be subsequent for the 25-year-old.
Molloy regarded sharp from the off and punched actual intent all through the primary spherical. Verify hooks and physique pictures particularly troubled King in a session that urged a stoppage was on the cardboard.
King noticed and felt sufficient within the first to enter his shell within the second. Nevertheless, even that didn’t cease Molloy from inflicting injury and when one large left landed he was despatched stumbling to the ropes.
Two sensible left downstairs southpaws’ proper hook combos examined the chin and legs of the Cobra firstly and end of one other dominant stanza earlier than left arms grew to become the story of the fourth.
The Galway native regarded to up the gears within the subsequent spherical. Nevertheless, when he landed arguably the punch of his profession, a sensationally delivered uppercut, and King took it, a punch end regarded off the playing cards.
The sturdiness of King was once more on show over the following couple of rounds as he was confronted with a relentless big-punching strategy from the Western favorite.
Molloy continued to land large correct pictures within the final, the trademark lead hand hook usually jolting the Southampton native, however to his credit score, he was nonetheless there on the closing bell after giving the Irish fighter a stable eight-round exercise.
