Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker racked up his 10th consecutive win as a professional with a third-round knockout of American Keith Thompson in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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The six-round bout was called off 2min 41sec into the third round after Parker, who dominated the first two rounds, unloaded in the third with two knockdowns to finish Thompson off, boxingscene.com said.
Parker, who has amassed nine knockouts in his 10 wins, worked Thompson over with his left jab early on and continued to inflict damage with his right in the second round.
The 1.92m tall Kiwi decked Thompson with a left hook early in the third, then wrapped up the win with a flurry of punches which again floored the 33-year-old American.
Parker's next fight is against Sherman Williams from the Bahamas in Auckland in October.
Fellow Kiwi Robert Berridge wasn't so lucky, losing his light heavyweight 12-round bout to towering Russian Vasily Lepikhin by a technical knockout in the fifth round.
Berridge gave up a huge advantage to the Russian in height and reach, and was knocked down once in the second round and three times in the fifth with just over a minute remaining.
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