Stephen McKenna vs Joe Laws (03-08-2024) Full Fight

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00:00Remember, I'll be in my command to all team, defend yourselves at all time.

00:09Touch gloves, touch them now.

00:14Victor Loughlin, our referee.

00:20Nice setting on Oakwell, there's a QR code, give that a scan, get involved in live scoring of the fights, live blog.

00:30Round one.

01:00As the referee is trying to get him to go back to the neutral corner, he's miles away from the neutral corner.

01:06Boxing continues and McKenna just piles into Laws again here.

01:10Laws swings with a left hook, swings with a right.

01:13He's got to try and do something to ride this out here, Joe Laws.

01:16Fighting fire with fire is maybe not the best policy.

01:21McKenna looking to rein in with rights and lefts.

01:24Missing as much as he lands, Laws grits his teeth, throws a massive overhand left.

01:29And then the referee comes in to split them.

01:31There is barely time here, Macklin, to draw breath.

01:35Well, this is literally the epitome of a shootout.

01:38Laws comes running across the ring, throwing bombs.

01:42I think he's possibly punched himself out here.

01:45McKenna unloaded with two hands.

01:47Big right hand knocks him back to the rope.

01:49Back comes Laws.

01:50And Laws again there, who I think might have done something to his foot.

01:54He just seems to be limping slightly over on the far side.

01:57Throws another left hand.

01:59And we're not even halfway through the first round.

02:03McKenna just setting his feet and just slinging in that right hand.

02:07Laws trying to dip low at the waist and stay out of the way.

02:10McKenna, feet planted wide, just pouring in with both fists.

02:16Laws leans in and tries to grab a hold of him.

02:19As soon as he does, the referee breaks the two of them up.

02:24Big shot.

02:26And down goes McKenna.

02:28He walks straight up to that one.

02:30What a shot from the Bedwell Bomber.

02:33And he needed that.

02:34It came from absolutely nowhere into the final minute.

02:38And now it's Laws' turn to set his feet and swing for the fences.

02:43Left hand into the body.

02:45Digs in the toes.

02:46Right hand into the body.

02:48I'm trying to get a look into McKenna's eyes.

02:50He felt that left hand.

02:52He still hasn't shaken it off.

02:54Laws needs to try and pick those punches here.

02:57Left hand high on the head.

02:59I think McKenna felt that one too.

03:0130 seconds remaining in round one.

03:04Laws just leans in.

03:05Victor Laughlin breaks him.

03:07Laws knows that he could almost be on the brink here.

03:10Doubles up on the left hand.

03:12McKenna answers.

03:13Right hand from Laws.

03:15Closing stages of the round.

03:17This has been absolutely unbelievable.

03:21He needs the bell here.

03:22Legs are still unsteady.

03:23It doesn't even look like he's got any strength in those punches.

03:26Left to the body there from McKenna.

03:28Laws swings.

03:30Looks for the uppercut.

03:31Doesn't quite land it.

03:33Three minutes of absolute, utter mayhem.

03:52There was the first knockdown.

03:53That was a good shot.

03:55That was it.

03:56That must have been inside the first 30 seconds.

04:00And it looked like it was all McKenna then.

04:03Really for the rest of the round.

04:08And I think he switched off mentally to his own defenses.

04:14And then whack there with that left hook.

04:18He was looking for his own left hook to the body of McKenna.

04:21Right hand was low.

04:22Got clipped.

04:23Boom.

04:24Right on the chin.

04:27Went down.

04:28And even when he got up, his legs, they were unsteady.

04:30And even at the final bell, walking back,

04:33it didn't feel like he really had his feet underneath him.

04:39So into the seconds.

04:41And it'll be fascinating to see if McKenna has managed to recover.

04:44Because as we say in boxing, sometimes when a fighter gets hit,

04:48they stay hit.

04:49It can be very hard to shake it off.

04:51Laws looking to rip with that left.

04:53McKenna digging in with the uppercuts.

04:55And these two just go straight back to it.

04:58There has not been a second's respite in this fight,

05:02right from the first bell.

05:03It's what we expected.

05:05It's what we hoped for.

05:07But already, it has over-delivered.

05:11And Laws again, just looking for that hook.

05:13He thinks that McKenna is ready to go here, I think.

05:16And he's happy to go after it.

05:18Full, full force.

05:19McKenna trying to work to the body.

05:22Trying to do something to deter Laws.

05:24But there's still that shaky look about him, Matt.

05:26I think he's been stunned, McKenna.

05:28I think he really has knocked a lot of strength out of him.

05:32There was one low there, I thought, from Laws.

05:34McKenna far and back, but he's still...

05:41He's in a daze, isn't he?

05:42He's in a fog.

05:43He's trying to fight his way through that fog.

05:46It's a difficult, difficult thing to do.

05:48If he can do this, McKenna,

05:50then it will be a huge, huge tick in the margin.

05:53It really will.

05:54Just leaning in, trying to double up on that left hook.

05:57They were good shots there from Stephen McKenna.

06:00But Laws again, backs him up

06:02and looks to let his own left hand go.

06:04Joe Laws has put an awful lot into this

06:06in the first four and a half minutes.

06:08And McKenna now just turns him on the ropes

06:11and starts to work his own right hand.

06:22Looking for that left again, Laws.

06:24But McKenna is having a good little passage here

06:27the last 20 seconds or so.

06:29He's just managed to turn off the ropes.

06:32But there again is that left hook

06:36and it rocks McKenna right back onto his heels.

06:39He did well to stay up there

06:41because that again was delivered and landed

06:44very, very clean by Laws

06:46who knows that he has the ability to hurt McKenna

06:49and to put him down.

06:51But the Irishman is showing a lot of spirit,

06:53a lot of bottle here

06:55to dig in and somehow get through this.

06:57Yeah, he's really digging in deep here, McKenna,

06:59because he got shook badly again with that left hook.

07:01He leaned in to throw his own left hook to the body.

07:04Again, the right hand comes down just like he did then

07:07and he keeps getting caught with the left hook to the head.

07:10You know, if I was down in the corner, I'd be saying,

07:12you know what, sack off that left hook to the body.

07:14Every time you lean down to throw,

07:16you're getting caught with the left hook pounded to the head.

07:19Because the state he's in, McKenna,

07:22he's got to somehow try and give those resistance levels

07:25a chance to build back up,

07:26but Laws just will not let him do it

07:29and McKenna happy to engage himself there.

07:32Again, just pushing Laws back to the ropes.

07:34Final few seconds of round two

07:36and another 180 seconds of absolutely breathless action.

07:41And the people in attendance here

07:43are loving every single second of it.

07:45Let's have a listen to the corner maybe.

07:48Well, let's have a look at some replays first of all.

07:51And you can pick any 20 seconds in the round for replays.

07:5430 minutes in the high-low rail,

07:56but it's the left hook to the head that we see there.

08:00Again, shook McKenna,

08:02because McKenna's leaning down too far here

08:05with the left hook to the body,

08:06and he's getting caught with the left hook

08:09to the head from Laws.

08:11It was the same left hook which caught him in the first round

08:14which caused the knockdown.

08:15So that left hook, that left hook,

08:17which he liked to throw,

08:18and the left hook to the body,

08:20got to be careful of those shots.

08:22Because Laws got his shorts around,

08:24the shorter punches,

08:25big leap to the punch.

08:28Brilliant, brilliant.

08:33Little bit of blood coming out of the nose there for Joe Laws.

08:36They both scored a knockdown in that opening round.

08:38Laws finished it the strongest,

08:39so he would make that his round.

08:41That would have been a Laws round in the second round.

08:43I doubt that we're going to need the scorecards,

08:45but nothing can surprise you in this sport at times.

08:49McKenna looking for that uppercut.

08:51A slightly clearer look about his eyes

08:54at the start of this third round.

08:55He takes another left hand there,

08:57and somehow, again, manages to stay up.

09:09McKenna's got to be careful with his own right glove.

09:11He's got to keep that right hand tucked on his chin.

09:14He's dropping it too low.

09:15He's open for the left hook.

09:17Right there from McKenna, the great Laws.

09:19And down he goes in that far corner.

09:23It seems to land almost on the top of that.

09:25He goes back to the blue corner.

09:27I'm not quite sure what's going on here, to be honest.

09:30The gun shield has been spat out.

09:32He's looking into the corner for something.

09:36They're replacing his gun shield,

09:38but I think he was looking to try and buy

09:40a little bit of time there, Joe Laws,

09:42because that overhand right, I think,

09:44has really scrambled him.

09:45And Laws just comes out to the center of the ring

09:48and looks to throw himself,

09:49but he's in trouble here, Laws,

09:51McKenna lands a big left hand,

09:53plants those feet wide.

09:55Laws is all over the place here.

09:57Dix Lockman having a look,

10:00but he's not going to step in just yet.

10:03And he can't get too reckless here

10:05with his own defenses, McKenna,

10:06because we've seen this before

10:07when Laws is hurt, he's still dangerous.

10:10There's a right hand followed by a left from McKenna.

10:13And Laws is rocking and rolling here

10:15midway through the round.

10:16He'll do very well to get through this.

10:18McKenna just looking to tee off,

10:20and he did have a more alert Michael Ayrton

10:23at the start of the round.

10:24Down goes Laws again here

10:28for the second time in a round,

10:30for the third time in the fight.

10:34Victor Lockman has a good look at him,

10:3670 seconds left in round three.

10:39Can McKenna close what has been

10:41an utterly, utterly exhilarating show?

10:43Big right hand there from Laws,

10:46checks the chin of McKenna again.

10:51Laws just managing to dip at the waist,

10:55but a good combination from McKenna

10:57finds him once again.

10:59He's trying to rip that left hand,

11:01but it doesn't land this time.

11:03He's stuck on the ropes here, Laws.

11:04He knows he has to get off him.

11:06And down he goes to an ear,

11:08Natal has come in from the corner.

11:11He looks disappointed now, Joe Laws.

11:14But Matt Jones wasn't going to let that go on any longer.

11:19What a fight we have just seen.

11:22A three round shootout,

11:24the like of which you very rarely see.

11:28Laws was down early in that first round,

11:31and he was in trouble.

11:33Then the equalizer with the left

11:35just flips everything on its head.

11:37And in that second round,

11:39he looked like he might be able to go on and win it.

11:42But Matt McKenna came out for the third,

11:44and he was revitalized.

11:46Put him down with the overhand right,

11:48and again, he went down to a knee that third time, Joe Laws.

11:53Unbelievable.

11:56You know, McKenna, I actually thought,

11:58was the more hurt of the two in the first round.

12:01And even when he got clipped again,

12:04and then you could see his defenses were

12:06a little bit scattered when they were trading off.

12:08The right hand, that's something he's got to look at.

12:10He was getting caught with too many left hooks from Laws.

12:13And even in the end,

12:14when it looked like the tide had totally turned

12:16in McKenna's favor,

12:18Laws would still fire back with the unbeaten massive hook,

12:22and it would just whistle past the chin of McKenna.

12:25And you're thinking, wow.

12:27You know, it wasn't over till it was over type thing,

12:29and I mean, that was a mental fight.

12:36It was. It was carnage. It was mayhem.

12:39It was chaos right from the start.

12:43And these are two men of mayhem.

12:45That's what they like.

12:46That's what they promised us.

12:48And that's what they gave us.

12:50They promised it.

12:51They gave it.

12:52But even at that, it exceeded anything we thought they could.

12:56You know, even when they,

12:57we think if they both deliver on what they're saying,

13:00we still didn't expect it to be as chaotic as that.

13:05To be, you know,

13:06literally the first bell Laws just came out and initiated war.

13:11And McKenna was more than happy

13:14to meet him in the middle.

13:17And for McKenna to be able to ride that out and somehow recover,

13:21because at the start of the third,

13:22he looked like he hadn't come back and win the fight.

13:24That is, that is quite something.

13:27Yeah. Powers of recovery.

13:29Because like I say, he was, for me,

13:30McKenna was the more hurt of the two, but he, his fitness,

13:34his conditioning, he was able to shake it off and come back.

13:39And then also put the punches together and get the finish.

13:42He, again, he just both hands there, let them go.

13:44Buddy had every which way he could possibly land them.

13:48He was throwing them.

13:50And that's the second time that he goes down in the third round.

13:54And then now it goes down to the knee and the corner.

13:58No, at that point that the game is up, it comes to town.

14:01Victor Lockman is extremely unlikely to let him continue after a,

14:04a third knockdown anyway.

14:07And that drew to a conclusion and utterly exhilarating

14:11adrenaline fueled three rounds.

14:15Obviously many levels below, but it was like a,

14:18a British heckler herds.

14:21It was, it was,

14:22it reminded me of Chris Edwards against Kevin Lushing at your

14:26call back in the nineties.

14:28That was another fight I watched last week for some,

14:30for reasons that are not even known to myself.

14:32I found myself watching it again and you see fights like that and

14:35they just stay with you because it is such a spectacle.

14:39There was just nothing like this sport, nothing like it.

14:50Barbslee, another round of applause for the show.

14:52These two put on.

14:57Referee Victor Lockman calls a stop to this contest at two

15:01minutes, 36 seconds of the third round.

15:05Declare your winner by TKO and the new WBC international silver

15:12super welterweight champion.

15:24The belt goes around the waist of Stephen McKenna, 15 and 0 with

15:2814 knockouts now, but that by.

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