Goodman provides tidy payday for fans

The Albion Park slugger was at staggeringly long 5-1 odds to finish the Kiwi slugger inside the distance, meaning a fair chunk of the "crazy bunch" that made the trip north got a fair payday.

There were few nervous moments for those who did get on, with Goodman moving to 9-0 with a clinical display that saw him barely troubled en route to the sixth-round TKO win.

"Those odds were way too long," Goodman said after delivering on his pre-fight promise to deliver a career-best performance on the Justis Huni-Paul Gallen undercard.

"Considering the opponent and weighing everything together it probably was [my best]. It was just pretty easy to be honest.

"The game plan we had was pretty spot-on, I had a pretty good idea of what he'd try and do and it was predictable.

"He said in the [pre-fight] press conference I had no speed, I had no power and all that rubbish so I thought he wouldn't show much respect for my power and come at me with high hands early.

"I eat that stuff up so I knew it'd be all over from there."

The stoppage may have come earlier but for a mix-up with the gloves that saw them fight in larger 10-ounce foam gloves instead of the pre-planned eight-ounce horse-hair gloves favoured by heavy-hitters.

"Five minutes before we fought I had to take the gloves off," Goodman said.

"We were supposed to fight in eight-ounce half-foam, half horse-hair gloves but Nort ended up with two right hand gloves when he opened up the pack.

"There were no other eight-ounce fights that night so we had to fight in 10-ounce foam gloves. It was the same for me as it was for him and we just got on with it.

"Whether it changed the result I don't know but it would've helped him I think. He definitely would have marked up a lot more."

It was the fifth stoppage win in his perfect nine bouts without a loss. While the 22-year-old is only truly interested in belts of the world title variety, he's aiming for regional straps next time out.

"The belts are what gets you the rankings," he said.

"There's a lot of fighters out there who've fought absolutely nobody just for belts and still climb the rankings. The belts and the sanctioning fees get you the rankings and I want those rankings.

"If we can get a better opponent [at the same time], that's gold, I'll take that, but we're chasing those rankings and regional titles next. That's what lead to world titles.

"I'm in this sport for nothing other than a world title, or multiple world titles. Once we get there the goal's will get bigger again, but I want these next fights to lead to a world title and that's that."

One fight that could see him deviate from those plans would be a mouth-watering domestic showdown with rising star Brock Jarvis - who also stopped Beauchamp by sixth-round TKO in April.

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The pair are widely viewed as the young Aussies most likely to follow the likes of Andrew and Jason Moloney into the world-title realm in the lower weights.

While reports suggest they could be drifting further apart in weight, Goodman has no qualms with sharing the ring with Jarvis at 57 kilos.

"We've heard he's going up to lightweight, whether he does or not I don't know," Goodman said.

"I know I'm staying at featherweight or super-bantam and if he's in the [featherweight] mix there he can get the smoke. That's all there is to that.

"I'm very confident I'd do a job on him, I did a better job on Nort than what he did. If he's around that weight I'm more than happy to take him on."

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