Boxing: Team Tua trio impress

Team Tua's three New Zealand boxing newcomers have impressed in their latest professional bouts at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Heavyweights Shane Cameron and Paula Mataele and super welterweight Daniel Codling all finished off their opponents inside the distance.

Tongan-born Mataele made an impressive United States debut when he knocked out Jeremiah Constant with a right uppercut one minute into the first round.

Mataele's record is now 5-0 with four knockouts, and with his 2.04m frame he is sure of attention in the US.

Codling, who was 4-0, put on his best professional performance when he battered his opponent Arthur Medina into submission at the end of the third round.

Codling's high workrate was too much for 16-fight veteran Medina, who took shots to both the head and body.

Cameron, who was also 4-0, looks ready for much bigger things after overpowering Vernon Woodward to record his third win in seven weeks.

Woodward, who had won three of his last four fights by knockout, had no answer to the speed and power of Cameron and was left on the canvas 2min 40sec into the first round.

- NZPA