IMAGE GALLERY: Bracero KO's Framingham's O'Connor

Gabriel Bracero knocked out Framingham’s Danny O’Connor 41 seconds into the first round in a NBCSN televised fight at Lowell Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, Oct. 10.

A right punch by the Brooklyn boxer caught the Framingham welterweight off guard. O’Connor laid on the mat for a couple of minutes as the doctor tended to him. He later got up, was talking, and sat in his corner.

Bracero told NBC during the televised fight that knowing O’Connor was a southpaw he knew he had to use his right.

O’Connor, 30, had been hoping to avenge a 2011 loss to Bracero last night. O’Connor is now 26-3. He had retired briefly, but won his two fights since coming back into the ring.

In May, O’Connor won the New England welterweight title in an NBC televised bout. He defeated Chris Gilbert when the fight was called in the fifth round.

In April, O’Connor registered his ninth knockout of his career in a fight in Melrose.

Bracero is now 24-2, with 5 KOs.

Bracero spoke to O’Connor, in his corner, after the fight.

He told NBC he told O’Connor ”After my last fight, after my last loss, I went through a depression. I told him don’t let that happen to himself. Pick yourself up. ... Go home to his beautiful wife and kids. and enjoy life.”

“I didn’t want the same thing that happened to me to happen to him,” Bracero told NBC “God Bless Danny O’Connor. I wish him the best.”

Bracero said he had made mistakes in prior fights and came into this fight “super focused.”

“The feeling is an amazing feeling,” he said after the KO. “The truth is I was a winner even before I walked in the ring. This is a dream come true. I dreamed about this day for a long time.”