Bad Left Hook Live Boxing Results and Commentary: Giacobbe Fragomeni v. Zsolt Erdei

How big of a fight is this in germany. I just consider Erdei a joke.

I’ve got the show right now. Undercard is on.

Just about to start: Wojciech Bartnik (22-4-1, 9 KO) v. Marcel Erler (7-6-1, 4 KO)

Cruiserweights, 8 Rounds

(Not gonna RBR this one)

Dimitri Sartison (25-1, 16 KO) v. Stjepan Bozic (23-3, 14 KO)

Sartison’s only loss was a 12th round KO to Kessler last year. This is for the vacant WBA title, since Kessler is “super champion” or whatever.

This is awesome….Polish Polish Super Six Polish Polish Polish.

Sartison working a long jab for the first minute. Bozic flicks back a couple of his own. Sartison misses a left hook that Bozic ducks under. Dead silent crowd. Library fight thus far.

Bozic pumping his jab a bit better in the second minute of the round. Right hand by Bozic is just off. Bozic looks at the ref about Sartison using his head, I think. Bozic jabbing, Sartison jabbing and moving around, but it’s Bozic landing the shots now. Now Sartison gets a quick rhythm, then backs off again. Their heads are going to clash, it would appear. Just a matter of when.

Sartison 10-9

Bozic?

Bozic pressing the action a smidge more in the first half of this round. Sartison continuing to try to work basically exclusively off his jab, but he’s coming with the right hand more, and catching Bozic coming in with combination shots. Another Sartison round. He just looks the more confident of the two so far, that being the real difference between them.

Sartison 10-9
Sartison 20-18

19-19
I gave Bozic the first round for the effective jabbing

Sartison with a heavy right following his jab. Sartison leading with the right late in the round after controlling the middle portion again. Bozic isn’t looking bad, but more and more he’s getting caught open and slow to react. Sartison lands a very heavy jab there. More good work for Sartison this round.

Sartison 10-9
Sartison 30-27

I’m starting to think a little more of Kessler’s win over Sartison watching him in this one.

29-28 Sartison
He’s controlling the action and landing the more effective punches. He might get in trouble with that uppercut if he keeps using it.

I mean, he’s landing, but they’re just horrible arm punches that I wouldn’t think would do any damage.

Mixing it up in close this round, and Bozic is landing some good shots from that range. Sartison might be well served to get back at distance. Better round for Bozic. Sartison is breathing a TON in his corner after the round. I mean a TON.

Bozic 10-9
Sartison 39-37

39-37

However if this moves to a phone booth fight im gonna go with boric

But just watching them, it’s obvious that there’s no way this should be a title fight. It’s like Maselino Masoe all over again.

Bozic’s left eye is swelling up pretty rapidly, and that might open up the right hand for Sartison. Uppercut inside by Sartison, then a right, and then a wild uppercut just misses. Sartison controls this round.

Sartison 10-9
Sartison 49-46

Looks like the referee wants to stop it. Bozic is saying he can’t see, and they keep telling him DON’T BLOW YOUR NOSE!!!!! DON’T BLOW!!!! And some other cat’s going NO! NO! NO!

Sartison remembers that boxing at distance is a good thing

Sartison 49-46

This is some bizarre corner stuff.

“WHY DOING THIS? WHY DOING THIS? WHY DOING THIS?”

Dimitri Sartison TKO-5

The eye is in terrible shape.

Yeah this is getting weird

Eye is swollen totally shot and the swelling is just filled with blood.

That eye looks terrible and it was most def caused by a punch….TKO time. Too bad that fight could’ve gotten interesting as Sartison was getting tired.

We could use a few less close-ups on that eye……gag.

That eye is a mess. Almost Vitali-esque…well, maybe not that bad. Sartison would have hammered it if he’d gone on. Btw, thanks for email SC, much appreciated.

I expect Fragomeni to win the main event convincingly, only to get robbed. I’m completely shocked that Erdei came in so low. Frag is basically the Italian Glen Johnson without as sturdy of a chin or as good of head movement.

I’d guess Gutierrez-Tajbert will be next.

That is a goddamn major league unibrow

He was the Olympic gold medalist at HW

Rakhim Chakhkiev (1-0, 1 KO) v. Denis Solomko (10-20, 2 KO)

Or at least that’s what BoxRec had last as Chakhiev’s opponent.

I’ll pass on this one too. Cruiserweights.

yup

I mean, Jesus. My eyebrows meet in the middle. But I discovered this invention called a razorblade. I’m pretty sure you can buy them everywhere.

He should get a Fragomeni rematch eventually…

German telecast starts then, and they’re at least airing the two main fights.

I wish I could understand what Wlodarczyk was saying.

Rafal Jackiewicz vs. Delvin Rodriguez in a title eliminator. That could be interesting, although there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that US TV picks that one up. Jackiewicz is on a great run lately.

A Valuev piece? Seriously? I thought we were done with this guy….

I can’t understand Polish, but I can understand Adamek saying Rahman.

I think

Intros to come, fight about to get going.

Were are you guys watching this? Is it on US tv? Also, just read the above comment that there is Haye-Valuev rematch clause. Almost want to weep at the prospect of that one

Fragomeni starting really slow in the opening half of the round, like he’s just not ready to fight. Maybe just feeling Erdei’s power or more likely total lack thereof. But Erdei is controlling this round because of it, so that’ll put Frago one in the hole when that’s about the last thing he needs. Frago with a slow left hook, easily blocked. Frankly it was blocked before it was ever thrown. Erdei with a couple jabs.

Erdei 10-9

I’m used to seeing him throw 70-80 punches a round. Erdei isn’t landing much, but at least he’s keeping active.

Erdei with a swiping left hook that gets a rise out of the crowd. Now a quick little combo. Although against Fragomeni thus far, just about anything looks “quick.” Erdei is doing very little, but that’s a lot more than what Fragomeni is doing. Fragomeni is way off in the first two rounds. He’s hardly doing anything at all. We’re seeing a clear Erdei decision in the making if this keeps up.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 20-18

He’s had cut problems in the past. He looked like a gory wreck after the Haye fight.

Erdei coming out throwing the hands this round. Starting to potshot constantly, which makes him look like the far, far superior boxer. And frankly he just might be, because Fragomeni thus far isn’t doing shit all offensively. Erdei is continually fighting while moving back, and Frago has no answer for it.

Even when Frago does throw, he’s slow and everything is easily blocked or ducked by Erdei. Left hooks to the body by Fragomeni, and then he clips him with a right upstairs. Now he might be ready to get moving a bit. There’s a minute left in the round.

Erdei takes another one mostly on activity, but Fragomeni finally started letting his hands go in the latter part of the round.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 30-27

I think Frag is starting to impose himself more. Still has a hill to climb.

Fragomeni starting to exert his will some now. Erdei is still moving back and potshotting pretty well, but he’s meeting some punches back finally. Clubbing rights by Fragomeni. Lots of misses by Fragomeni as Erdei dances and springs away from him. Now he’s making Fragomeni miss again. Fragomeni pumping a jab now, which might actually help him set any of this stuff up. Erdei jabbing back, and doing it better. Fragomeni with some left hooks, nothing solid. Right hand from Fragomeni. Left hook to the body, right upstairs from Erdei.

Closer, but still an Erdei round from my view.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 40-36

My browser crashed during the round, so commentary starts about halfway into another Erdei-controlled round to this point. This is pretty much an entirely tactical fight, and like him or not, respect him or not, Erdei appears to be a much better tactical boxer than is Fragomeni. This is basically a shrunken heavyweight fight by modern standards, with the 20-pound weight difference on the scales, and the better boxer is finding a way to beat the heavier man.

Fragomeni lands a left hook to the body near the end of the round, but gets hit with a right hand in the face for his trouble.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 50-45

They’ve shown three different attractive women in the crowd, so what have we seen here? Two wives and a mistress?

Handspeed and footspeed. If he can somehow corner Erdei, he has a better chance in a dogfight, but he doesn’t really have the power to knock Erdei out, and Erdei has too many rounds in the bag for Fragomeni to take a decision even if he can somehow turn it into a brawl.

wow good rd … Erdei didnt seem to liek those punches too much

And Erdei seems to be tiring.

Erdei starts the round backpedaling even more than he has in the first five, and it makes him look like he either knows he has a big lead or knows he’s going 12 and might need to take a round off, or both. The two go hand-in-hand in many ways.

Fragomeni is pressing the action and landing some shots inside. Now he’s got Erdei in close and is bombing at him. Fragomeni working at the body with left hooks, and going upstairs. I think he’s getting to Erdei. You can feel a turning of the tide. Fragomeni is letting it fly and putting the heat on in a big way, and Erdei isn’t doing anything at all. When Erdei does throw, he now looks sloppy and, well, scared a bit.

Fragomeni 10-9
Erdei 59-55

I think Erdei might fold. His body language has changed completely.

was pretty impressed with Erdei boxing for the first 5 … doesnt seem liek hes gonna last at this pace

Body work on Erdei seems to be adding up. Fragomeni takes a home run shot upstairs but misses badly. Erdei loads up a right, doesn’t even dent Fragomeni, who just keeps coming at him, closing the distance and working him over. When Erdei bolts away, Fragomeni just focuses in, chases him down, and goes back to work. This is a totally different looking fight from the first five rounds.

Erdei is tiring, looks like he isn’t taking shots so well anymore, and is fighting almost desperately on the offensive side of things. Fragomeni hasn’t backed down one bit, and has only turned up the heat as this has gone on. If Erdei thought he was in an easy fight, he was wrong. It’s almost like Frago spent five rounds playing George Jones.

Erdei looks like he’s in a bad way.

Fragomeni 10-9
Erdei 68-65

But Fragomeni has all the momentum now.

Elsewhere, consensus seems to be that Fragomeni won the 4th as well, which could mean this is a close fight.

Erdei looks tired and a bit bewildered in the corner.

Despite Frag’s lack of power, he might get a KO just on Erdei falling over.

Erdei stuck on the ropes again right away in this round. Right to the body by Erdei, then a chopping right upstairs. Fragomeni working the uppercuts inside, and doing it well. Fragomeni putting the pressure on again late in the round, but I think thus far this has been an Erdei round. Still stealable, though, and Erdei is letting the hands fly! He’s landing some nice shots again. It’s not backing Fragomeni off, but it is getting Fragomeni’s NCAA football momentum meter cooled off a bit.

Fragomeni ends the round flurrying, or tries to, and Erdei swings back on him to seal the round.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 78-74

Erdei back to using his speed advantage and his boxing skills, and he’s starting to slap Fragomeni around as he was doing early in the fight. Maybe he’s weathered the storm. He’s clearly the superior boxer. The only thing that can beat him is conditioning, really. I mean he’s just flat-out better than Fragomeni and that’s not up for debate.

Erdei letting the hands fly again. He hasn’t so much as made Fragomeni take a backwards step in this fight, but when he’s active it’s his fight. Fragomeni loading up the right hand in a big way. I think he knows it’s getting a bit late in the game, he’s in Germany, and he’s legitimately down to boot.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 88-83

Gave it to Fragomeni close. 87-84 Erdei.

Erdei still scoring with clean punches. They are bouncing off Frag with little real effect, but they are scoring.

Jesus, Erdei is bushed in the corner. This guy is fighting through fatigue like a son of a bitch.

It’s open scoring, just we can’t understand it because it’s in German. If you want to know how they had it after 8, I can say…

And Erdei probably will run as much as he can for the last two rounds.

Fragomeni active, Erdei not. That’s the difference this round. Now Erdei is getting into a firefight, and losing it. If he leaves himself open to be hit, he clearly feels the punches more than Fragomeni does. Scored this round for Fragomeni, didn’t say a lot as I got a phone call that I “uh huh, right” my way through.

Fragomeni 10-9
Erdei 97-93

Erdei, to his credit, is mixing it up with Fragomeni. On home turf, he has to know he doesn’t need to do that. I suppose this COULD be closer, but…well, when’s the last time Erdei got a tough deal?

Fragomeni looks like he does know he needs a stoppage to win, but Erdei is actually using aggression to keep him from loading anything up. Fragomeni is reduced to eating shots and trying to get one of his slow power shots home. Not a bad tactic if Erdei’s gas tank can handle it. It looks like Frago is getting a bit tired himself.

This round almost surely sealed it for Erdei.

Erdei 10-9
Erdei 107-102

Fragomeni coming out guns blazing. And I mean he is throwing the hands. Looks like he wants to keep Erdei focused on the little arm pumping shots in close, then load up a right hand to the dome.

Erdei is absolutely out of gas in there. Whenever Frago is outside of arms reach, Erdei just dumps his arms at his sides. Fragomeni might actually have a shot for a KO here in the final minute if he can find one big shot, a la Briggs over Liakhovich. He’s got 30 seconds.

Erdei sprinting away from Fragomeni, who puts the chase on, and now he’s throwing all he’s got left! Good stand by Fragomeni, he’s really letting it go. Erdei, for whatever stupid reason, actually tries to throw some back.

Fragomeni 10-9
Erdei 116-112

Erdei could have ran, and he was completely toast, but he chose to engage and keep Frag off of him by throwing punches. Frag still took the round, but Erdei could have hugged his way to victory, and I respect that he didn’t.

Good show of respect there. Always like to see that spirit.

Yeah Erdei showed real guts there. He dredged up some reserves.

Fighters hugging and touring the ring for photo opportunities. Can’t say a bad word about that.

The two fighters are embraced and walking around the ring both holding up their arms

1st card even?

majority decision I think.

German is school level. 114-114. Two 115-113 cards.

I think.

114-114
115-113
115-113

ZSOLT ERDEI via majority decision
New WBC Cruiserweight Titleholder

I don’t think Erdei can hand as a cruiser. I’m still puzzled he gave up his belt. Perhaps this is his last achievement before retiring.

Tajbert and Gutierrez have one common opponent, Sergey Gulyakevich. Tajbert lost a pretty wide decision to him, Gutierrez won a close fight against him in a life and death fight. Tajbert has home advantage here though.

I have a German living with me right now and I may fetch them for translation purposes.

Gale Van Hoy is one of the judges

And we’re on!

Gutierrez looks absolutely massive compared to Tajbert in the ring. Both guys dancing a bit on the outside to start. Tajbert jumps in with a nice quick left hook that finds the southpaw Gutierrez. Gutierrez with a couple of body shots. Tajbert lunges in and misses wildly.

Gutierrez seems interested in timing the quicker Tajbert, and Tajbert seems afraid to get within Gutierrez’s reach, which is much greater than Tajbert’s. Tajbert darting in and out a bit. Gutierrez tries to turn it up at the end, but it’s mostly a boring, tactical feeling out round.

Tajbert 10-9

is gutierrez tall for a super feather or is tapret small … this is super feather right?

Tajbert showing jab, but not anywhere near close enough to land. Gutierrez with a couple of combos that mostly miss. Gutierrez is now starting to move forward, and even throwing a jab here or there. Tajbert isn’t anywhere near him, and if he stays this far on the outside, he’ll never land much.

Gutierrez now launching some uppercuts when Tajbert tries to jump inside, and this seems to be dissuading Tajbert even more. Nothing too exciting going on here.

Gutierrez 10-9
19-19

Tajbert continuing to air jab, which for some reason is keeping the much longer Gutierrez from closing the gap as much as he might like. Gutierres with a couple of jabs. Tajbert in with a hook, ducks under the counter and runs away, a maneuver he’s pulled several times already.

Gutierrez is landing the jab when he throws it, but he’s not throwing it nearly enough. But his power seems to be bothering Tajbert, who’s getting even more tentative now. A couple of left hooks by Gutierrez that mostly hit forearm. Tajbert did nothing that round, and Gutierrez really didn’t do that much more.

Gutierrez 10-9
Gutierrez 29-28

glad there were finally some exchanges … still seems like a style clash or something cause they’re really not throwing much at all

I thought this fight had potential, but it’s been horrible so far.

More of the same to start. Tajbert jabbing air. He’s probably thrown 100 jabs and landed none of them. Gutierrez catches him with a couple short rights. Gutierrez seems to be a one-handed fighter, which is hurting him. Tajbert is now within range of his right hand, but he keeps trying to throw crosses without setting them up with the jab. Gutierrez with a decent combo. Tajbert finally coming in close. Guiterrez with a couple of good shots to the body. Tajbert darts in and lands a couple of quick shots. Gutierrez gives chase.

10-9 Gutierrez
39-37 Gutierrez

Tajbert attempts a 1-2 that misses badly. Gutierrez with a hook combo that misses badly. Gutierrez with a nice digging right uppercut to the body. They read the scores (damn you open scoring), and suddenly Gutierrez gets a lot more aggressive. Gutierres jumps in with a left, and Tajbert counters. Tajbert with a flurry that mostly hits gloves, but makes the crowd get louder. Tajbert with a slapping lest hook. Decent combo by Tajbert. More digging hooks to the body by Gutierrez.

Tajbert is finally close enough for a fight to actually start. And like that, he gets back on the outside, Gutierrez starts stalking again, and the round ends with both guys just bouncing there.

Close round.

10-9 Tajbert
48-47 Gutierrez

Gutierrez lands a couple jabs from the outside. Tajbert tries a flurry that doesn’t do much of anything. Nice left hook at the end of another flurry by Tajbert. Gutierrez is throwing the jab a bit more, but Tajbert isn’t necessarily staying outside of it.

And I seem to have lost my feed, so that’s that.