By Przemysław Osiak
22-year-old heavyweight Andrzej Wawrzyk (17-0, 10 KO) remains unbeaten after his 8-round battle against Harvey Jolly (10-13, 5 KO). The fight which took place at UIC Pavilion in Chicago. It was Wawrzyk's first performance in America, which he finished with unanimous decision. The scores were: 79-73, 79-73 and 78-74.
Despite the defeat, '76 born Jolly gave an important lesson of American boxing to the still unexperienced Pole. "Candy Man", whose weight was only 220 lbs (92 kg), turned out to be very inconvenient and managed to floor Wawrzyk in the fourth round with a powerful right. Fortunately, the Polish prospect immediately pulled himself together and seemed to control the course of events.
During the entire contest, Wawrzyk was hitting his American's opponent with straight left which made it possible to win clearly via scorecards. When Jolly started losing his strenght in the seventh round, Wawrzyk truly dominated the clash, hitting him effectively time after time. In the final bout, the Pole was close to finish "Candy Man" bombarding him with series of punches in the corner but the 33-year old opponent survived skilfully.
"I'm not satisfied with anything. The fight had to look differently but it was bad enough fighting against someone like Jolly without training with such an opponent" – said Wawrzyk, who seemed to be furious with himself despite the unanimous win.
"It was a genuine bomb but Andrzej got himself together and finally won the whole fight distinctly" – commented Andrzej Wasilewski, the promoter of Wawrzyk, talking about the incident from the fourth bout. - The encounter in the US turned out to be a valuable experience for Andrzej and certainly will be beneficial in the future.
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