ANTHONY Mundine won his second WBA super middleweight title in sensational fashion, with a stunning ninth round stoppage of fellow Australian Sam Soliman at the Sydney Entertainment centre last night.

Mundine put Soliman down once in the second and twice in the ninth round before South African referee Stanley Christodoulou intervened at the 2:26 mark of the ninth.

Fighting in front of a packed house of sporting and media celebrities, Mundine dominated with superior speed and power.

It was a decisive and impressive performance by the 31-year-old Sydneysider, who erased the doubts raised by his contentious split decision win over the same fighter five-and-a-half years ago.

Soliman showed great conditioning and courage to survive beyond the second round as he was stopped for the first time in his ten-year professional career.

The Victorian was competitive for the first five minutes before Mundine tilted the fight in his favour with a big right hand in the final minute of the second round.

A staggered Soliman was pushed to the canvas and then slipped to the floor in the third as Mundine went in for the kill.

The courageous but outgunned Soliman appeared to be working his way back into the bout in the fifth, but Mundine reasserted himself near the end of that round.

Soliman was wobbled late in the sixth as Mundine stuck his tongue out and talked to his battered opponent.

The game Victorian had his best round in the seventh as he landed a few more blows than his opponent.