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Rendall Munroe's fairytale will take him all the way to a world title fight after he stopped Victor Terrazas in the ninth round of the WBC super bantamweight eliminator in Coventry.
European champion Munroe made a sluggish start at the Coventry Skydome, with the Mexican looking a strong and lively competitor.
Leicester bin man Munroe took a full five rounds to truly get a foothold in the contest, with Terrazas controlling the tempo of the fight and looking much more comfortable despite his four-day trip from Guadalajara.
As Munroe started to impose himself, however, Terrazas seemed to struggle with the Englishman's size and strength and the Mexican's tank seemed to empty pretty quickly.
Terrazas spent almost half of round six pinned in a neutral corner and merely covering up and offering very few shots in return.
Dictating
Munroe was now dictating matters, and his work rate smothered Terrazas who was glancing at his corner and taking big gulps of oxygen to try and get through the rounds.
Rounds seven and eight were all Munroe, and a minute into the ninth all the work finally paid off as a left hand to the body sent Terrazas to his knee.
The Mexican made the count at eight, but he clearly wanted out and referee John Keats took that same view and waved the fight off.
"It was brilliant," Munroe told Sky Sports. "With my team around me we've been working on a few things. I always said it was my childhood dream to go and be a world champion.
"They said to me before the fight I had to go out there and win in style - and I did that and showed the Mexican how to fight.
"That was the plan, everyone knows I'm like a steam train, you just have to chuck a bit of coal in me but once I'm going I'm chugging right on through."
Title fight
Frank Maloney said that he will try and bring a WBC title fight with Japan's Toshiaki Nishioka to Britain, but Munroe may have to travel to the Far East to try and achieve his dream.
"We don't know," said Maloney. "We've got the under hand in a pack of cards, but we'll try our best to hold it here because he deserves it.
"This is the story of a real fighting hero that's come up the hard way. Midland area, British, Commonwealth, European and now world title.
"This is what boxing's all about - he's a credit to the sport."
Source: skysports.com
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