Ben Burrage is referring to it as his Rocky moment.
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It came, he says, during his welterweight muay thai bout against a Thai on Koh Samui last Thursday.
After being “bombed out” early in the scheduled five-round bout on the famed tourist island and with a bad cut over the left eye, Burrage fought back and stopped the local in the fourth.
“I caught him with a punch in the second round, dropped him twice in the third and stopped him with leg kicks,” he said.
“I was doing that (leg kicks) throughout the fight. Just smashing his legs.
“It was a hairy first round. He came out pretty hard.
“But I came back and stopped him like that – a bit of a Rocky story.”
The win capped off a bitter sweet six weeks in Thailand for the former world champion.
He planned to have two or three fights there, including a bare knuckle bout, but he badly broke his nose in training before fighting.
He had also planned to have another bout after last week’s victory but the cut prevented that.
Burrage’s partner, Sam Barnett, also fought and won on Koh Samui, with her bout taking place two weeks ago.
She beat a Thai on points over four rounds.
The Thai beat her in 2016.
“She (Barnett) won on points, which is a pretty big deal in Thailand … It’s hard to do that because the scoring is a lot different to fighting here.”
Burrage’s next fight is against an Afghani in Sydney on June 1.
He said the K1 bout was for an international title, and a win would move him closer to a world title shot.
