KUALA LUMPUR: Muay Thai teen sensation Jojo once again dropped a bombshell when he knocked out Mexican Josue Cruz in the first round at ONE 168 in Denver, Colorado today.
According to the website https://www.onefc.com, the energetic 17-year-old Sarawakian, whose name outside the bloody boxing cage is Johan Ghazali Zulfikar, kicked off from the bell with a flurry of punches and only needed one round to floor his opponent with a knockout in the muay thai flyweight 64 kg category at the Ball Arena.
The ferocious victory of the 17-year-old kickboxer in his first ‘One Fight Night’ in the US saw Jojo in a triumphant return to make up for the lesson of defeat to the Vietnamese Nguyen Tran Duy Trat at ONE 167 last June.
Jojo, of Malaysian-American parentage, took home a cash prize of RM216,500.
For the record, the KO victory over Cruz was Jojo’s fifth in a ONE Championship match.