Lawrence Okolie, nicknamed The Sauce, announced his arrival in the heavyweight division in spectacular fashion, securing a brutal first-round knockout victory over Hussein Muhamed at Wembley Arena.
The former WBO cruiserweight champ cleaned out woeful Hussein Muhamed with a trademark right hand.
Six months on from his dismal title defeat to Chris Billam-Smith down at the 14st 4lbs division, The Sauce beefed right up to light up Wembley arena at his curvy NEW 18st 8lbs stature.
“I felt good,” he beamed. “That’s my second first-round KO in a row.
“Now that I’ve been putting on the weight, enjoying training camp, I can be a lot more explosive.
“It’s showing in the fights, as soon as I start hitting these guys, they start going. I’m ready for the best in the world at any weight.
“I felt super robust, super strong. I think people might have thought, ‘he weighed 200lbs last year, why’s he 260lbs now’?
“But I feel happier and natural and a lot more solid.
“You know when I was making cruiserweight because of what I had to do to make that weight I felt tired.
“But now, I just know every round I can go explosive, recover, explosive, recover. So it feels good.”
