Exciting Sydney southpaw Nikita Tszyu extended his famous boxing family's unbeaten record in Newcastle with an impressive stoppage of previously unbeaten local boy Darkon Dryden.
The 24-year-old Sydney super welterweight battered his opponent in the latter stages of round three at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Saturday and Dryden's father and trainer didn't let him come out for the fourth.
Dryden, who had won all four of his previous professional fights inside the distance, landed some good one-off shots but found it hard to consistently tag Tszyu, who moved well and dictated terms with consistent valleys of hurtful blows.
Tszyu improved his family's professional record in Newcastle to 11-0, following in the winning footsteps of father Kostya and older brother Tim, who rated his younger sibling's performance on Saturday as 10 out of 10.
Nikita Tszyu (4-0, 3 KOs) said it was easily the most satisfied he had been after a fight, though he noted Dryden got him with a few body shots.
"I was honestly the most nervous I've ever been in my life this whole camp, the last six, seven weeks I've had so many sleepless nights," Nikita Tszyu told Main Event.
"I've never been so in tune with myself and for the last three weeks - I've been living, breathing every second. I've been thinking about this and it all came to be."
Unbeaten world-ranked Sam Goodman produced another dominant display as he retained his WBO Oriental super bantamweight title with a unanimous 10-round points win over fellow Australian Jason Cooper, who withstood sustained punishment.
Promoter George Rose revealed Goodman would be on the undercard of the Tim Tszyu-Jermell Charlo super welterweight world title fight in Las Vegas on January 28 (January 29 AEST).
Irishman Darragh Foley won the vacant IBO International super lightweight title with a unanimous points win over Blake Minto in a scrappy contest.
World-ranked New Zealand cruiserweight David Light scored a second round KO of Indian Visas Singh.
The mammoth 19-bout card featured a number of strong women's fights.
Tywarna Campbell retaining her Australian super featherweight title with a unanimous points win over Jessica Adams and Ella Boot earned the vacant national super lightweight belt with a unanimous points victory over Zoe Putorak.
Ayisha Abied squeezed out Shanell Dargan in a split points decision in a fantastic back and forth five round women's featherweight fight.
Fighting for the first time in almost five years, former Tonga and NRL forward Richie Fa'aoso was stopped by Louis Marsters In the second round of their heavyweight clash.
