Webb spots weakness, then in for kill
KYLE Webb is making a habit of quickfire knockouts.
With another vicious bodyshot, Webb became the new Victorian cruiserweight champion.
And the former Muay Thai star is determined to repeat the dose when he puts his skills on show in his home town of Geelong next month.
Webb will fight Tasmanian Mathew Freshney at Tony Salta’s Old School Boxing Promotions bout at Belmont Civic Centre in June.
“He’s a tough guy,” Webb said. “He’s won his last two fights and he’s a strong, walkup fighter.
“I’ll have one week off and get straight back into it.”
Webb made light work of Nathan MacLean in the Team Ellis Promotions cruiserweight bout last Friday night, felling him 1:22 into the first round.
“Because it was an eightround fight I didn’t want to come out too hard and fast at the start, but I caught him with a body shot very early and I saw him flinch and react like it hurt him, so I started pushing the pace,” Webb said.
“My counter punches were strong. Every time he tried to hit me I’d move and hit him two or three times, and one of my body shots brought him down. In the end I caught him with a big left hand as well, it spun him around and into the ropes and the ref jumped in and called it off because I hit him with another four or fivepunch combo.”
Webb admitted his lefthand to the body was a “signature move”.
“Because I’m a southpaw, my left is probably one of my strongest punches,” he said.
“I kept hitting him in the liver, and we had a good game plan to work the left hand to the head and use the right, and they were both landing.
“I was on target very early.”