The official punch stats have now been revealed after Chris Eubank Jr.’s dominant stoppage TKO victory over rival Liam Smith on Saturday evening.
Eubank secured the stoppage within the tenth spherical, having knocked down his opponent earlier in spherical 4 after a one-sided show at Manchester’s AO Arena.
For the 33-year-old, it additionally served as revenge after his shock stoppage defeat to Smith earlier within the yr on the identical venue.
CompuBox has since launched the statistics from the primary occasion, with the numbers spelling out Eubank’s much-improved efficiency from the primary combat and Smith’s flat show all through because the Liverpudlian struggled with a rolled ankle early within the combat and the consequences of a draining weight minimize within the build-up.
Eubank’s greatest two statistical rounds have been the ultimate two of the combat – rounds 9 and 10 – the place he landed 28 and 25 pictures respectively, each at a hit fee of roughly 48%. Following the primary knockdown within the fourth spherical, Eubank’s output was additionally excessive, throwing 66 pictures within the fourth and 71 within the fifth, touchdown 49 of these efficiently throughout the 2 rounds.
Smith, in the meantime, struggled to provide an output excessive sufficient to threaten his opponent. His highest variety of pictures thrown got here in spherical 8 when the 35-year-old threw 20 pictures and landed 5. His most profitable spherical was the sixth the place he landed seven of 17 pictures (41.2% success fee). Across the 2 rounds when he dropped to the canvas, Smith landed only one shot mixed.
In whole, Eubank was by far the extra lively fighter, touchdown virtually six instances as many punches as his opponent. Overall, Eubank landed 193 in comparison with Smith’s 33.
Full punch stats:
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