George Jarvis went to the floor in round one and came back to finish the fight in round two. That, in his own estimation, is still only about half of what he is capable of.

Jarvis stopped Rungrawee “Legatron” Sitsongpeenong by knockout at 1:59 of round two in the main event of ONE Fight Night 44 at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, June 26, improving his record to 29-5. The early knockdown that had the crowd buzzing meant nothing to the man who absorbed it.

“No, it wasn’t a knockdown that hurt me at all. It was just more off balance. I wasn’t stunned or hurt at all. It was just a good-timed shot, and these things happen. It’s no problem,” he said.

The camp behind the performance was shorter than usual — four or five weeks rather than a full preparation cycle. Jarvis credits that brevity for keeping the approach clean and uncomplicated. He and coach Paulo da Silva stripped everything back to the essentials, and it showed in how systematically the Englishman dismantled his opponent.

“Yeah, I had a great camp. A little bit shorter than normal. We only had about four or five weeks, which was a little bit shorter, but if anything, it was good because we didn’t have too long to do too many crazy things. We kept it simple. I work a lot with my coach, Paulo da Silva. So, we kept things very simple, did what we needed to do, and it worked, so I’m very happy. We kept that pressure style, good boxing, good movement, and it worked again. Another one bites the dust,” he said.

The left hook that finished the fight was not a gamble. It was the planned conclusion to a specific sequence, built on the knowledge that sustained body work would eventually bring Rungrawee’s guard down.

“Yeah, I think you’ll see me go to the body a lot. We worked on a lot of the body shots because we know Rungrawee has a good tight guard, he has a good long guard and he likes clinching. So the clinch for me isn’t one of my favorites, but I don’t mind being there because even though Rungrawee is good at it, it’s not a danger. He’s not going to be able to hurt me in the clinch, it’s just more stalling a little bit of time. So, if anything, it’s good because I can hold and think a little bit about what I’m going to do when we get broke, so it’s not a problem. But yeah, like I say, you see me go to the body a lot because I know it’s going to bring his hands down, and then obviously, I threw the left hook over the top, and it landed clean. So it worked. It worked perfectly,” he said.

For all of that, Jarvis is clear-eyed about where this performance sits in the broader arc of his development. The knockout win is not the ceiling. It is nowhere close to it.

“No, it’s not my best. It’s far from my best. I’ll give this a four or five out of 10. Yeah, I won by knockout, but there are still a lot of things that I need to work on. If it was a 10 out of 10, then I’d be knocking him out in 10 seconds,” he said.

“So, there is no finished product yet. I’m still learning. I’m still trying to explore everything we do inside training into the fight. Of course, I’m not the finished article yet, but I’ve got a lot more to give and a lot more to show. So when I finally get that 10 out of 10, everyone’s going to be in a lot of trouble.”

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