Mach eyeing second state crown after tough TKO win
RISING Geelong boxer TL Mach has set his sights on a second state title after securing a brutal TKO at the weekend.
Mach, undefeated in five amateur fights, will fight for the Victorian bantamweight championship on October 27 at Doncaster’s Shoppingtown Hotel.
It follows a clinical performance in Saturday night’s Team Ellis promotion at Melbourne Pavilion, where the 18-year-old disposed of Anthony Latina.
“He broke his opponent’s nose pretty bad with an overhand right and the ref stopped the fight,” Mach’s trainer Jack Light said.
“TL used the jab well and was setting his right hand up all night landing it over and over. Most people would have been out after a lot of those shots, but he landed three or four flush in succession and that was it.
“He followed the game plan really well, he fought a very tough kid who tried to make it an ugly, scrappy fight.”
Mach, who won the Victorian Amateur Boxing League bantamweight title in 2017, is yet to lock down an opponent for the title showdown, but Light declared an announcement was imminent.
Mach won’t be the only fighter from Light’s stable on the card, with training partners Jake Seamder and Michael Gambold also competing in Doncaster.
Seamder and Gambold will fight in the 67 and 71kg weight classes respectively.
Meanwhile. champion Geelong boxer Clint Alderton went down in his title fight in China at the weekend.
Fighting for the vacant World Boxing Foundation International light heavyweight title, Alderton suffered a controversial TKO loss against Mingcun Chen.
It was a miserable night for Geelong in China, with fellow local hope Greg Bell also losing his title fight, going down to Ziqiang Huo in the WBF Asia Pacific welterweight title.