Super middleweight Maciej Sulecki revived his career on Friday.
Sulecki picked up a 10th-round technical knockout over Ali Akhmedov at Qazaqstan Track and Field Arena in Astana, Kazakhstan. Referee Juergen Langos stopped the bout 14 seconds into the final round.
Sulecki, 35, was up at the time of the stoppage. Two of the judges had the bout scored 86-82, and one had it 87-81 – all in Sulecki’s favor. Sulecki, from Warsaw, Poland, pushed an aggressive pace as he was relentlessly outworking Akhmedov until the stoppage in the 10th and final round.
Sulecki improved to 33-3 (13 KOs), and rebounded from his loss in August to Diego Pacheco. Sulecki’s other two losses came to Daniel Jacobs and WBO middleweight titleholder Demetrius Andrade.
Akhmedov, 29, who was fighting at home in Kazakhstan, suffered the second loss of his professional career. Akhmedov stopped Malcolm Jones in Commerce, California, in January to start his year.
Akhmedov had won seven straight fights since his December 2020 loss to Carlos Gongora, which was a knockout in the 12th and final round.
Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing,” a guide for young fighters, a writer for BoxingScene and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Find him on X at @BigDogLukie
