Early Weekend Results: Bellew retains the Commonwealth; Soliman and Amonsot win fringe titles
by Brickhaus on Sep 25, 2010 5:03 AM EDT
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London, England
Tony Bellew UD12 Bob Ajisafe - Bellew, one of the better prospects in the United Kingdom, was able to dominate en route to a win over Bob Ajisafe, though Bellew had to come off the canvas in the fourth. Bellew retains his light heavyweight commonwealth belt. The official scores were 115-114, 116-112 and 117-111. While Bellew still makes a lot of mistakes in the ring, he's a potentially exciting style of fighter, and he still has a lot of natural talent built in there.
Paul Appleby TKO4 Mickey Coveney - Appleby was supposed to be the next big thing a few years back, but it never really happened.
Victoria, Australia
Sam Soliman KO10 Pradeep Singh - Soliman dominated Singh, possibly the best Indian fighter currently out there, en route to a 10th round knockout. Soliman was able to end it with a body shot, and wins a fringe IBF title. At 36, I hope he retires soon, although I honestly think he would make the best trainer out of any active fighter, so he might stick around boxing after his fighting career is through.
Czar Amonsot KO2 Sirichai Ekchumpol - Amonsot put in a highly entertaining performance against Michael Katsidis a few years back, but came out with a brain bleed. After over a year off, he's returned to the ring and won a fringe WBO belt with a convincing knockout win over a Thai journeyman. Echoing my previous sentiments, I wish Amonsot the best, but I really hope he doesn't get seriously and permanently injured.
Albequerque, New Mexico
Johnny Tapia TKO4 Jose Alonso - Tapia's a likely Hall of Famer and almost certainly the best fighter to come from New Mexico, but it's definitely sad that he's still fighting. Now 43, he had supposedly retired about five years ago, but famously he can't actually keep his head on straight unless he's fighting. When retired, he's ended up hooked on drugs and in prison, so while very old and completely toast, Vida Loca keeps risking life and limb against scrubs and journeymen, and he probably has about as good of a reason as anyone to keep going.
Frankie Archuleta UD8 Jorge Reyes - Archuleta and Tapia had a couple of fairly competitive fights with each other, but Archuleta has lost just about every time he's stepped up even to the second tier. This time he took on a creampuff opponent, bouncing back from losses to John Molina and Martin Honorio.
Algiers, Algeria
Ali Chebah RTD3 Lazslo Komjathi - Chebah moves one step closer to getting a shot at the WBC junior welterweight title. While he hasn't had the world's greatest competition (his best win might be over the guy who fought Humberto Soto a few weeks back), he's young, quick and relatively talented, so he could stick around the division for a while, if he proves to have any of the intangibles.
Bankkok, Thailand
Medgoen Singsurat (3K Battery) PTS6 Patomchai Patonphothong - It wasn't too long ago that Singsurat was considered to be one of the best bantamweights in the world (and before that he was a flyweight champ who beat Manny Pacquiao), despite having a very empty record. Since losing to Jorge Arce, he's gone 16-1, but this record has come against opposition with a combined record of 37-24-4, including 8 guys making their pro debuts.
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Bellew did not dominate that fight.
He was swollen horribly by the end of the fight, and Ajisafe totally dominated the last couple of rounds. He was also knocked down, by a guy who’s scored 2 career knockouts from 8 wins. I’ve always been distinctly unimpressed with the guy, and he was particularly bad last night: no jab, winding up on all his shots, piss poor defense. Moreover, his power – which he constantly bigs up as the best in the division – appears to be grossly overexaggerated; knocking out undersized and underprepared Ghanaians like Atoli Moore is simply not an achievement. I think it’s fair to say I’m certainly not sold on Tony Bellew.
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
I agree
His right doesn’t even land square on.Not flush at all and thats supposed to be his best punch.
And what the hell was Farnell talking about in the corner,“throw more punches,one of them will land”.
Great advice that………..What a trainer!
He missed tons of punches last night and looked really amateurish through his constant loading up and predictable lack of punch variety and setting things up.
Bellew bear was overrated (by some who should know better).
It was just all a bit ridiculous, to be honest. Enjoyable fight, but there are so many things to criticise about Bellew’s display. What was most worrying, for me, was the fact that he actually did land some hard-ish right hands, yet he only really dented Ajisafe once or twice. Ajisafe was awkward, but he was also a sitting duck at times for the right hand; however, Bellew had so little variety that Ajisafe could just telegraph exactly what he’d do. Plod, plod, plod, swing, swing, swing, miss, miss, miss.
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Sep 25, 2010 5:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Bellew
looked terrible and i would not agree that he dominated at all.
After all the big talk about fighting Nathan Cleverly,he showed last night that he is and,imo,never will be near Cleverly’s level.
He looked terrible against an average,though admittedly awkward opponent.
All he has is a decent right hand and npot much else and i never bought the hype surrounding him even before last night.
Cleverly
was distinctly unimpressed in the Sky studio and summed Bellew up pretty well.
Nathan also showed he will be excellent as a pundit/analyst too.
I didn’t see the fight, but I can say that Bellew has only ever impressed me in that I don’t mind watching him fight.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
He was awful. It was a really good fight, so I guess I’d prefer him to be awful and make for good fights, but he’s just not a particularly great fighter. I don’t see him doing anything past the British level. As for Cleverly, he’d get eaten alive.
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Sep 25, 2010 5:56 AM EDT up reply actions
I can’t say i agree that it was a really good fight.Lots of missed punches by Bellew and lots of holding and spoiling by Ajisafe,although Bellew was the one who made it harder than it needed to be.
It was fairly intriuging i would suggest,aminly because most were expecting Bellew to blow him away.
All the best to Bellew in his future but i’m afraid when he’s running his mouth off and saying “i talk big but i back it up”,then putting in a shoddy performance like that and at a pretty low level,it’s hard for me to take him seriously as a top prospect.
Yeah, you’re right, I was thinking about retracting my ‘really good’ comment haha. There were spells that I did really enjoy watching – in particular, the first four and the last couple – but it was a fight lacking in class the whole way through.
Bellew simply isn’t a top prospect. I don’t think he’s ever really looked like one and, while he might talk like he’s the next big thing, he doesn’t have anywhere near the skill to back it up.
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic"
by Oli Goldstein on Sep 25, 2010 6:13 AM EDT up reply actions
On a side note
for anyone who didn’t see last nights bill,Cleverly mentioned the proposed big Frank Warren bill on Dec 11th and said they were trying to secure the Jurgen Braehmer ttile fight but that it was a complicated situation,if i remember correctly.
Ugh
That’s what I get for putting this together while drunk at 5 in the morning. I see it was all over the place as well. Next time, I’ll either do it right and triple check myself, or I’ll just refrain until the morning.
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haha
I assumed. I, uh, did what I could since I was up about 15 minutes after you posted.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Sep 25, 2010 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions
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