Damian Jonak Dominates Alex Bunema in Katowice

By Alexey Sukachev

Top Polish promoter Andrzej Wasilewski has loaded up a nice fight card in Katowice, Poland, with a local rising heavyweight star and a perennial/fringe light middleweight contender, in featured fights.

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WBC #4 ranked light middleweight Damian Jonak (31-0-1, 20 KOs) continued his consistent but slow rise in the ranks with a dominant unanimous decision over veteran Alex Bunema (31-9-2, 17 KOs).

The African fighter, who is based in America, was once a former WBC interim-champion and has solid wins over former champion Roman Karmazin and Argentinean crowd-pleaser Walter Dario Matthysse. However, against the methodical and technically sound Polish boxer-puncher he didn't look good in any sense of the word.

Bunema spent most of the time eating punches or covering up near the ropes. He was successful with his shell defence... to a degree, but ultimately he was passive with teh offense. Jonak, on the other hand, wasn't too effective with his punches to wobble Bunema, but he was active enough to take almost every round of the fight. Bunema was also knocked down in the second after a series of uppercuts by the Pole.

All three judges had the fight wide in favor of the local hero: 100-89 (twice) and 99-90. BoxingScene also had it 100-89 for the new WBA International and reigning WBC Baltic light middleweight beltholder

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Poland's new heavyweight hope Artur Szpilka (now 8-0, 6 KOs) got by far his most impressive victory, when former WBA world title challenger Owen Beck (29-9, 20 KOs) retired on his stool at the end of the third round. Southpaw Szpilka, a Polish version of Chris Arreola, looked like a future star with his fiery left hand, which troubled Beck time and time again. In the second, Szpilka landed several hard punches, and the Jamaican was very lucky not to go down. However, he was battered too heavily and too consistently to get up from his stool after three.

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Talented Poland-based Nigerian Izuagbe Ugonoh moved up to 4-0, 3 KOs, with an effective and dominant stoppage of Austrian no-hoper Patrick Berger (8-6, 7 KOs). Berger was battered badly in the corner until the referee stopped the contest in the middle of the second round.

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Krzysztof Zimnoch (8-0-1, 7 KOs) stopped heavyweight journeyman Sebastian Tuchscherer (14-13, 5 KOs) in the third round of a scheduled four. Zymnoch used his vicious body attack combined with a brutal left hook to secure a one-sided victory. Tuchscherer was down in the first and was punished badly in the second. The end came after another left hook by Zymnoch which had the German down. He beat the count but the referee deemed him too hurt to to continue fighting.

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