[caption id="attachment_887" align="alignleft" width="613"] Nguyen Van Hai is declared the winner of the match with Abdul Motalib at WBO Global Prelude on July 15, 2023. Photo by Cocky Buffalo[/caption] Nguyen Van Hai, a 14-time national boxing champion, needed just 12 seconds to knock out Bangladesh's Abdul Motalib at the WBO Global Prelude competition. Motalib had five straight wins, including two knockout wins, prior to the lightweight (61 kg) battle on Saturday night. Hai, who has won the national title 14 times in a row, also recorded five victories in six professional matches. At the official weigh-in before the fight in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province that borders HCMC, Motalib tried to provoke Hai by standing in front of him and blocking his view during the press conference. But Hai kept his composure. There was not much to say about the fight as 12 seconds in, Hai threw a powerful and staggering right hook that immediately floored Motalib. The referee stopped the fight and gave a knockout win to Hai. This is his third knockout win after seven professional fights. Another Vietnamese boxer, Sam Minh Phat, had quite an opposite fight when he lost to China number one DianXing Zhu by technical knockout at the minimumweight (48 kg) class. Zhu is currently the WBC Asia belt holder and has won eight, including seven by knockout, in nine professional fights. After eight rounds of struggling with Zhu’s powerful combo, Phat could not continue as he collapsed in the ninth round. Zhu won by technical knockout and claimed a spot in the WBO international belt fight. In another fight, the 17-year-old Vietnamese-Korean boxer Lee Juyeong won by technical knockout against Indonesia’s 36-year-old boxer Dedy Imprax, who could not continue after three rounds.