Thursday Night Aussie Action!

There were two importants bouts taking place Down Under last night, in two different cities. In Auburn, former world title challenger Nedal Hussein proved too experienced for what may have been a weight drained Mick Shaw as the Jeff Fenech trained “Skinny” stopped the Australian light welterweight champion inside of two contentious rounds. After trading evenly in the first round, Hussein flattened Shaw with a right hand in the second following a flash knockdown from a left hook. Sydney resident Hussein moves to 39-2 (25) and takes the vacant IBO Intercontinental super featherweight belt. Shaw, who drops to 21-7-1 (6), had not made 130-pounds since August of 1999. In the Sydney suburb of Penrith, Jason “The Nailer” DeLisle defended his IBF Pan Pacific light heavyweight belt for the sixth consecutive time. The thirty-three-year-old was fighting in front of a hometown crowd and didn’t disappoint his fans, stopping woeful Argentine tourist Fernando Roberto Vera on a cut in the fifth. Vera loses for the sixth time in his last ten outings and falls to 10-10-2 (7), while DeLisle gets closer to securing a rematch with IBF champion Clinton Woods, who had to climb off the canvas last October to stop “The Nailer” in the twelfth and final round of an IBF eliminator bout.