WELSH boxing great Colin Jones saw fellow Swansea fighter Enzo Maccarinelli produce another sensational KO on Saturday and admitted: "He's a freak."

Jones fought a draw with top American Milton McCrory in a world welterweight title bid at a time when there were many great fighters around.

He lost in two more title bids and could KO opponents with either hand, so to call Maccarinelli 'a freak' for his punching power is a big compliment.

The tall cruiserweight followed up his seventy seconds destruction of Andrei Kiarsten in his first defence of his WBU world crown at Newport last month with a ninety seconds (including the count) demolition of South African Earl Morais at the Cardiff Ice Rink.

He won his world title against England's Bruce Scott and defeated Kiarsten with stunning left hooks. Marais was poleaxed with a big right hook and took several seconds to recover.

"He's a freak," said an impressed Jones. "Not many fighters can hit like that with either hand.

"He's so unassuming that when people get in the ring with him they think 'I'm in with a chance here,' but when he first hits them, you can see their faces change.

"He's still only a kid so it's hard to say how good he could be, but he's got no need to rush. I'd like to see him win a domestic title and perhaps a Lonsdale belt before going in against the very best."

The very best at the moment is probably WBO champion Johnny Nelson and that's whom Maccarinelli wants to meet - but not yet.

"I've got a lot of respect for Johnny. He's the best. But I'm happy to have two or three more fights and see what happens," said 23-year-old Maccarinelli.

"I'm not impatient. I have faith in my promoter Frank Warren."

Warren said: "It's going to happen (the fight with Nelson) but not next time. Enzo's still learning though it's difficult for him to learn as much as we'd like because they can't take his punches."

South African champion Morais looked composed when Saturday's fight started but was shaken by the first left hook he took.

Maccarinelli followed up and trapped Morais on the hopes before unleashing a flurry of punches to body and head, again mostly left hooks.

But as the punches pushed Morais over to his right, the Swansea sensation hit him flush on the chin with a stunning right and it was all over.

"I'd done fifty or sixty rounds of sparring. I trained for a 12-round war," said Maccarinelli. "But if I see an opponent's there to be taken out, I do it."

Maccarinelli has still to go beyond four rounds in 17 professional fights but there remains a suspicion about his own ability to take a punch.

He was put down by Scott and KO'd early in his career by Lee Swaby. But so long as he can get his punches in first, he needn't worry.

Other results: vacant WBU world welterweight title, Eamonn Magee (Belfast) bt Jimmy Vincent (Birmingham) on unanimous points; six rounds international super-middleweight, Eric Taymour (Russia) bt Farai Musiyuwa (Zimbabwe) on points; eight rounds light-middleweight, Delroy Mellis (Brixton) bt Wayne Alexander (Croydon) rsf eighth; four rounds welterweight, Taz Jones (Cardiff) bt Ernie Smith (Worcester) on points; four rounds middleweight, Martin Concepcion (Leicester) bt Danny Gwilym (Bristol) rsf second.