Deontay Wilder has retained his WBC heavyweight championship with a devastating ninth-round knockout of Artur Szpilka in New York.
Wilder (36-0) knocked Szpilka out cold and flat on his back with a powerful right hand to the head at the Barclays Center on Saturday night.
Szpilka (20-2) was out for several minutes as medics were called to the ring. He eventually slumped against the turnbuckles as doctors tended to him.
With former heavyweight champions Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis sitting ringside, Wilder recorded his 35th KO and silenced a Polish-flavoured crowd that went wild for Szpilka.
The heavyweights fought a fantastic eight rounds and were closing in on a ninth until Wilder caught him flush with 36 seconds left in the round.
Charles Martin won the vacant IBF world heavyweight championship in an underwhelming bout against injured Vyacheslav Glazkov in the co-main event.
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