Friday Night Global Boxing Results: Wilczewski Claims European Title at 168
by Scott Christ on Mar 5, 2011 2:42 PM EST
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- Ismayl Sillakh UD-10 Yordanis Despaigne, Ray Narh UD-10 Freddie Norwood: Read the full recap of Friday Night Fights here.
- Yunier Dorticos KO-6 Epifanio Mendoza: Dorticos (11-0, 11 KO) is a 24-year-old Cuban cruiserweight who wasn't quite the amateur stud that a lot of his fellow Cubans are, and thus isn't quite the hyped prospect. He placed second three years in a row (2005-07) in the Cuban nationals and in 2008 came in third. Mendoza (30-11-1, 26 KO) has the dimensions to fight at cruiserweight, but he's 35 and spent most of his career around the middleweight division. You likely remember him from such losses as Chad Dawson, BJ Flores or Beibut Shumenov. At this point, the Colombian veteran is a gatekeeper wherever he can find a fight.
- Puro Pairol UD-4 Corey Edwards: Pairol is another Cuban, a 30-year-old lightweight with no power who has won four straight after drawing in his February 2010 pro debut. You don't need to pay much attention to him, most likely.
Helsinki, Finland
- Piotr Wilczewski TKO-11 Amin Asikainen: The late stoppage win nets Poland's Wilczewski (29-1, 10 KO) the vacant European super middleweight title, which Brian Magee abandoned to step up and fight Lucian Bute on March 19. At 32, he's very unlikely to make any serious waves at 168, but with the way things go, maybe he'll fight Bute by the end of the year. His only career loss was a TKO-3 to Curtis Stevens in 2009, and while Stevens is limited, he can bang. Asikainen (28-4, 19 KO) hasn't scored a good win in years and gets stopped every time he steps up since 2007, falling at the hands of Sebastian Sylvester, Khoren Gevor, Matthew Macklin and now Wilczewski. Considering that's not really a list of big punchers, well...you can figure out the rest. He's got name value at the Euro level, especially in his home country of Finland, but that's about it.
- Andreas Evensen TKO-3 Yordan Vasilev: Evensen (14-2, 6 KO) bounces back from his wide loss to Ricky Burns in a fight he didn't deserve with a win over a pro opponent. This might be the last time we ever mention Evensen on this site again, because he's probably not likely to jump back into contention.
Woodland Hills, California
- Yusaf Mack SD-12 Otis Griffin: This win puts Mack (29-3-2, 17 KO) in line for a shot at the alphabet belt held by Tavoris Cloud. Sounds like just the sort of fight King would love to get for Cloud, and then not televise it.
Indio, California
- Vicente Escobedo UD-10 Walter Estrada: Escobedo improves to 23-3 (14 KO) and looks to get back into serious contention at 135 pounds. You know what I wouldn't mind seeing later this year? A Katsidis-Escobedo rematch.
- Randy Caballero, Sharif Bogere and Michael Finney all won on the undercard.
Doncaster, England
- Mike Perez PTS-8 Ismail Abdoul: Well, at least Perez got rounds this time, though he won an 80-72 shutout. Perez (13-0, 10 KO) is a Cuban based in Ireland with some legitimate heavyweight upside. He's a 6-foot tall southpaw with power and good skills, and while he might come in heavier than you'd want for a guy with his frame, he's not sloppy like countryman Odlanier Solis. He's also not as talented as Solis, so you take the good with the bad, I guess. It'll be a while before he makes any significant leaps up in competition, or at least it should be.
Deurne, Belgium
- Jackson Bonsu UD-10 Jose del Rio: Bonsu improves to 34-4 (25) with the win over his Spanish visitor, who falls to 11-2 (4 KO).
Creil, France
- Cedric Vitu UD-10 Mehdi Nekaies: Vitu (31-1, 13 KO) retains his French junior middleweight belt with a win over Nekaies (15-6, 8 KO). The 25-year-old Vitu has a pretty record and a win over Christophe Cancalux on his record. It would be nice to see him gun for Euro level sometime this year.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Giorbis Bathelemy TKO-2 Derek Ennis: Ennis (22-3-1, 13 KO) is a Philly mainstay at this point, but this is a bad loss for him. Bathelemy (25-8-2, 10 KO) is a 38-year-old Cuban who turned pro in 1994 as a welterweight and at this point fights anywhere from 160 to 175. And the referee for this was Steve Smoger, so you know it probably wasn't a quick hook or anything. Hell, maybe they'll just rematch. Ennis, 30, wasn't exactly on the rocket ship to the moon or anything.
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Sykes UD 116-112, 115-112, 115-113 over Johanneson just now.
(I tried to do a fanpost to give some updates but it didn’t take :(
I have no idea how how the first one got to his score, given that it was an extremely close fight and Sykes was knocked down in the 9th. I had it 114-113, and I thought I was being generous to Sykes early with a few close rounds. He did exceptionally well to come back from the knockdown, and I think at least one judge may have scored that 10-9 (if thats allowed, I can’t remember) as he came back really strongly after the knockdown, when Johanesson basically punched himself out trying to finish it.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
awesome fight
really happy I got to see it, have had good luck this year with the time to see British cards, and the quality of the fights. Catch some highlights on the tube when it comes, it’ll be well worth it.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
True BB
Johanneson was landing some big shots in there and showed a suprisingly (to me at least) tight guard…A lot of Sykes’ punches were blocked..I though Gary deserved to win (without bias) but as you say it was a close fight…2-3 rounds at the most between them,imo.
I thought he deserved the win too – I felt he needed the last 3 rounds to edge it and he showed a lot of heart in there. I was just pretty surprised to hear 116-112, especially.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
Yes
4 points was way too wide..I didn’t score it but i would have thought the other two judges scorecards were more appropriate.It could have been even closer as you say,though to be fair to the first judge i suppose some rounds could have gone either way.
it was the right result in the end, thats the main thing. 116-112 means he scored it 9-3 in rounds with a 10-8 round, and thats very wide(if my math is right). I was worried for Sykes when that was called out, as he seemed pretty confident and I thought ‘you sure this is yours mate’ but then Johanesson was clearly a lot more downbeat waiting for the result, so maybe it wasn’t That close.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
Like i said above i thought about 2-3 rds between them,but then taking the KD into account,i suppose 1-2 points difference would have been about right.
Even though they are both Yorkshire boys,make no mistake,Sykes was the hometown fighter (bit of rivalry between Leeds and Huddersfield :) and probably benefitted a little bit from that.
Still,at least the winner deserved to nod..Johanneson gassed out as far as i could see,and Gary showed heart and a second wind.
I admit i was a bit worried when the scores were read out as i know Gary from the amateurs and was pulling for him.He also lives just down the road from me.
ah cool ;)
He showed a lot of class post fight, too. I remember thinking that you must know him personally when Prizefighter was playing out. I was pulling for him too, he had to show a lot of heart to take such a tough fight after that, and to come back so strong after the knockdown was what he needed (loved the corner’s ‘Thats What Champions Do!! Thats What Champions Do!!’)
It sounded like Fegatilli will be next and he’ll be favorite for that too….
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
Also Grooves won again and should have an anouncement soon wether degale is up next (sounds likes its on)
Groves should stay away from that one, really
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
agreed
he should maybe move a bit slower
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
yeah
he does back it up though – so far anyway
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
Agreed
DeGale will make Groves look amateurish, IMO. Big gulf in class, and it’s getting bigger. I could see Groves becoming an action star, but DeGale is another level, even though Groves is much more likeable.
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