Tongan Boxer
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This photo (by Hettig) shows Kitione Lave, the Tongan heavyweight champion boxer of the Pacific Islands. He is now making a name for himself in Auckland, New Zealand, where he has had two fights and knocked out his opponents in quick, sensational style. In the first bout he knocked out a heavyweight boxer from Liverpool in 44 seconds in the first round.
He then fought a Wellington heavyweight 6 ft 3 in. tall and weighing 15 stone 10 lb (Kitione weighed 14 stone 6 lb) and won on a technical knock-out—the referee stopping the fight in the second round.
Before he went to Auckland, Kitione beat all the boxers in Tonga, Fiji and Samoa, winning the Pacific Islands heavy weight belt. He wants to fight Mullet, the New Zealand heavyweight champion, and his latest records indicate that he may be qualified to do so.