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Under the Radar Fight Results (Week ending 5/7/17)


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It is the time of the week where I scour the week’s boxing results for anything interesting that I hadn’t already covered in separate articles. This week we have a quieter week, but it still features several former world titlists, a brother of a current heavyweight titlist, and a couple sons of former greats.

Edis Tatli working his jab to the body

On the Radar Fight Results

Mendez decisions Redkach with the right result gone weird

Castellanos retires Gamboa, maybe for good

Joseph Parker defends his heavyweight title against late replacement

Chavez Jr does a mobile heavy bag impression, loses wide to Canelo

Under the Radar Fight Results

Jonas Sultan (12-3, 8 KOs) KO8 Sonny Boy Jaro (43-13-5, 30 KOs), super flyweights, Philippines

In 2012 the third time in world title fights was the charm for Sonny Boy Jaro when he scored a TKO6 upset over longtime Thai titlist Pongsaklek Wonjongkam. This was a huge upset as Wonjongkam was a fringe top ten pound for pound fighter at the time and accordingly it was named Ring Magazine upset of the year. Jaro immediately lost his next three fights, two by split decision, before rebounding on a nice nine fight, almost three year winning streak that he took into this fight. Sultan came into this fight a complete unknown with no indication on his record that he could compete with a fighter like Jaro, but here he scored the upset of his own. Sonny Boy Jaro is now an ancient 35 years old for the weight and it likely did him in here against his 25 year old opponent.

Francesco Patera (18-2, 7 KOs) SD12 Edis Tatli (29-2, 10 KOs), lightweights, Finland

I can’t find full video of this fight so I cannot judge, but there is some outrage coming out of Finland about this result. It is surprising that Kosovo born, Finland raised Edis Tatli could potentially be robbed in Finland after he got extremely generous scorecards in his 2014 world title loss to Richar Abril there, but it is being reported that he may have been. If Belgium’s Patera did deserve the win, this was definitely an upset as he has barely registered on even the European level previously. Either way, Francesco Patera is now your European lightweight champion. I suspect a rematch will be in order here.

Daiki Kanenko (26-5-3, 18 KOs) TKO7 Tsuyoshi Tojo (13-15-5, 2 KOs), junior lightweights, Japan

Former 2013 Takashi Uchiyama title challenger Daiki Kaneko returned with an easy win over a club fighter in their native Japan. There isn’t much to say here except that the fight happened and Kanenko, now 28, is on a six fight winning streak since the beginning of last year against more or less this level of non-competition. The last time Kanenko fought against fighters with good records was in 2015 when he lost a pair of decisions. I doubt Kanenko will ever beat a top fighter, but he might get a chance to try again.

Genki Ishikawa (9-1, 5 KOs) UD6 Motoki Sasaki (42-11, 26 KOs), lightweights, Japan

Motoki Sasaki, now 42, has had an interesting career. Twice he fought for world titles, first in 2009 at welterweight against Hatton conqueror Vyacheslav Senchenko and then two classes down at lightweight against Humberto Soto in 2011. Sasaki’s unusual mid-career weight cut didn’t really help him on the world level, however. In both fights he lost wide decisions. Now, six years later and into his early 40s, Sasaki lost a six round decision to an unknown, 8-1 fighter eighteen years his junior in Genki Ishikawa. The end is probably here for the former Japanese fringe contender.

Umar Salamov (19-0, 14 KOs) TKO4 Emil Markic (24-2, 19 KOs), light heavyweights, New Zealand

Chechen light heavyweight prospect Umar Salamov rolled here with a very good performance on the Parker/Cojanu undercard. Tall, rangy, and with power, Salamov is definitely one to watch in the division at only 22 years old. He isn’t a super prospect like Beterbiev or Gvozdyk, but he is young fighter with potential being developed in a more traditional route. Salamov has rebased from the historically troubled Russian federal district of Chechnya to Las Vegas where he is now trained by Kevin Barry of New Zealand who also trains Joseph Parker and Beibut Shumenov.

John Parker (3-0) UD4 Ratu Dawai (2-6-1, 1 KO), cruiserweights, New Zealand

John Parker is the 23 year old younger brother of WBO heavyweight titlist Joseph Parker and was accordingly on his undercard. He is not a real prospect. Here Parker rematched the man who he already beat by majority decision in his pro debut two fights ago, this time managing a unanimous decision win. John also got his weight up, weighing in at 197 for this fight whereas he was a sub 190 pound cruiserweight for his first two contests. I imagine he will be a fixture on Joseph Parker undercards for a while, but he doesn’t seem like he will ever develop anything beyond having his brother’s name.

Tim Tszyu (4-0, 3 KOs) TKO2 Ivana Siau (3-7-1, 3 KOs), 156.5 lb catchweight, New Zealand

22 year old Tim Tszyu continued his rapid early career schedule with this easy TKO2 over Samoan club fighter Ivana Siau. This was Kostya’s son’s second fight inside of a month and he has another scheduled on the 27th. Tszyu did not have an extremely extensive amateur career like many super prospects, but he did go 33-1 in the unpaid ranks. Here he hit Siau at will with razor sharp lead rights and did not need to do anything else. Too small for middleweight long term, Tszyu’s team seems to be slowly moving him down to junior middleweight where is next fight is scheduled.

Tim and Kostya Tszyu

Ronny Rios (28-1, 13 KOs) TKO4 Daniel Noriega (30-11-1, 15 KOs), super bantamweights, Nevada

Ronny Rios was once a featherweight prospect who lost his undefeated record in 2014 against this weekend’s Gamboa destroyer Robinson Castellanos. He was a somewhat highly thought of prospect with a win over former titlist Rico Ramos prior to that night. Since then he is 5-0 with wins running the gamut from pretty good like over previously unbeaten former world title challenger Jason Velez to Saturday night when he roughed up journeyman Daniel Noriega on the off television portion of the Canelo/Chavez bill. What was important about this fight was not the opponent, but the weight cut. Here Rios successfully cut to super bantamweight for the first time. At 122 lbs, Rios’s 5’7″ frame featuring a 71″ reach will be a serious advantage against the vast majority of the division.

Evgeny Gradovich (23-2-1, 9 KOs) MD12 Hugo Berrio (23-7-1, 14 KOs), super bantamweights, Russia

Former IBF featherweight titlist Evgeny Gradovich was really one of the weaker belt holders in recent memory in any weight class. He won the belt from no one’s favorite fighter Billy Dib via split decision and defended it first against a completely overmatched Argentinian before rematching Dib. This time he stopped the equally undeserving former titlist in nine. Next he defended against since busted prospect Jason Velez and could only manage a draw. Lee Selby was his downfall as a world titlist. Three fights later Gradovich was used a step up for Oscar Valdez, if he even really was a step up at all. Valdez smashed him in four. This is the second straight fight Gradovich has taken in his native Russia since the Valdez bout. Both times he was in with opponents who looked very much overmatched on paper and both times he only eked out the narrowest of decision wins.

Jose Ramirez (20-0, 15 KOs) TKO2 Jake Giuriceo (20-6-1, 5 KOs), welterweights, Nevada

2012 US Olympian and Top Rank junior welterweight prospect took a lateral move Friday night on UniMas. Arum has always moved the vast majority of his prospects very slowly and Ramirez does not seem to be one of the exceptions. At 24 Ramirez has been fighting this level of opposition for about two years now and is due for a step up. On Solo Boxeo the Freddie Roach trained prospect came out fast looking for a knockout and seemed well on his way to one when a right hand opened a really nasty gash over Giuriceo’s left eye. This was a really nasty cut that ran right into Ramirez’s overmatched opponent’s eye and the fight was appropriately stopped.

Harry Simon Jr (1-0, 1 KO) TKO3 Sam Shaama (0-2), Namibia

Namibian fighter Harry Simon won a junior middleweight title in 1998 in a very close fight with Winky Wright in South Africa where the scores were controversially changed from a draw to a win for Simon a half an hour after the fight. He defended it a few times before moving up to middleweight and becoming a two division titlist. In 2002, his career as a top, undefeated titlist ended when he was at fault for a car accident in which Simon badly injured himself and worse yet killed three Belgium tourists. He healed up enough for a fight five years later in 2007, but later that year was sentenced to two years in prison for the very same accident. Since 2010 Harry Simon has fought club level competition as an occasional light heavyweight, but usually a fat cruiserweight and remains unbeaten. No one seems to care though, not even in his native Namibia. Here his son made his pro debut. I discovered this when trying to find a fight result for his father that I do not think actually happened for the second week in a row. I know nothing about him, but his father was a good fighter and he exists now. I don’t even know what weight this was contested at, but it definitely took place as covered briefly in Namibian newspapers.

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