ELLIS SUFFERS SHOCKING 4TH ROUND KO
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 11 Apr 2010
Highly touted Fil-Australian Heath ?The Heat? Ellis has suffered a shocking 4th round knockout at the hands of Steve ?Super? Maxwell in a fight card titled ?Make Or Break? at the Malvern Town Hall in Melbourne, Australia Friday night.
Maxwell who fought like a Tasmanian devil had predicted a KO win and delivered on his promise. He had said his strategy was to be aggressive and indicated he was ?planning an early assault on Ellis? and believed he could knock out the young Fil-Aussie ?before 6 rounds."
It was Maxwell?s fourth straight knockout victory and he demonstrated he had power in both hands.
The loss dropped Ellis to 12-2-1 with 6 knockouts and setback the big plans multi-titled Victorian promoter had for the 21 year old whose mother is a Filipina and father an Australian, Neil Ellis.
Multi-titled Victorian ?Promoter of the Year? Peter Maniatis who handles Ellis and was looking forward to a great future for the young Fil-Aussie said the fight started well with Ellis ?showing good movement and silky skills to win the first 3 rounds and hurting Maxwell at times.?
However, Maniatis reported that at the start of the fourth round Maxwell ?landed a big left hook which seemed to hurt Ellis and blood started to come out from his nose. Maxwell sensed Ellis was hurt and came in to finish the fight but Ellis responded and started trading blows with Maxwell.?
Maniatis said ?the last punch was a bomb that landed on Heath to send him to the canvas and the referee (Ignatius Missailidis) counted Heath Ellis out at 1.23 seconds of the 4th round.?
The promoter said he told Ellis after the fight to remember that ?Manny Pacquiao was knocked out early in his career and he came back and achieved great things and at 21 years old he has time on his side to come back and build his career again.? Maniatis was referring to Pacquiao's knockout at the hands of Rustico Torrecampo in Pacquiao's first setback after 11 straight wins...
The promising young fighter?s uncle, former world IBF junior lightweight champion and IBO champion at lightweight, junior welterweight and light middleweight Lester ?Master Blaster? Ellis was at ringside to watch his nephew defend his IBF Pan Pacific and WBC Asian Boxing Council welterweight titles against Maxwell.
The former world champion had earlier maintained that Heath had ?the talent, punch and power? to give trash talking opponent Steve Maxwell a boxing lesson and then knock him out in the later rounds of a scheduled 12 round title fight.
But that didn?t happen and it was the other way around as Maxwell knocked out Ellis.
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