By Per Ake Persson
Danish paper Ekstrabladet writes that Danish middleweight contender Patrick Nielsen earned about $95,000 USD for his fight against Dmitry Chudinov on Sunday night in Moscow. Nielsen lost a unanimous decision after a rather unimpressive performance and the paper reveals that his promoter Kalle Sauerland kicked in the door to Patrick Nielsen´s dressing room afterwards and gave the fighter a hard time.
Sauerland was very unhappy with the way Nielsen had performed and the boxer's own trainer, Joey Gamache, confirms to Ekstrabladet that Patrick didn´t train as hard as he could have - something the fighter himself confirmed in a press release from Sauerland on Monday.
As to why Nielsen showed up in less than top shape is a different question and not answered by Ekstrabladet, but it could be that 22 fights without ever being under pressure and against relatively safe opponents at home had Nielsen believing that's the way it was. Against Chudinov he was under constant pressure, fighting in the other guy's backyard and failed to cope with it.