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This guy really had a title for six damn years and didn't bother trying to be in big fights. Didn't try to unify, nothing. We need less of these kind of fighters clogging up divisions.
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Agreed. I wonder if Kenshiro moves up and challenges. -
Didn’t Dalakian have all sorts of problemsComment
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If Bam was still at 112 he may have tried to challenge him, but with him gone I think he'll give atleast this year to unify. If Gonzalez wins his match next month they could get the unification that they were hoping for possibly around June. Once three belts are unified the last one should be doable to set up around the end of the year with enough fight money before he goes up to 112.Comment
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dalakian was the most avoided fighter in the world. with small paydays, no fanbase and ukraine at war he had to wait for mandatory fights basically. no other highly ranked boxers wanted to fight him. i wanted akui to win but he wasn't better today in my eyes.Comment
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I also don't want to use the term "glad" that Dalakian lost his belt given what is happening at his home right now, but I won't be lying when I say I was rather disappointed that he really went the whole match on the running end. You can say it is his style but my personal preference is that the champion side atleast shows some willingness to go on the offensive at some point of the match. Plus his counters that he was throwing wasn't exactly striking that cleanly. 119-109 was a bit WTF but 117-111 and 116-112 was definitely realistic and a good score. For reference I'd like to see CompuBox only because I'm getting a hunch that Dalakian's clean strike % was quite low compared to the total punches thrown.
I said it in the fight thread as well, but it really made me think of the Shakur-DLS match but where Shakur (Dalakian) wasn't as skilled in running nor his counters were as effective, and DLS (Akui) was actually willing to chase him down the whole match to catch him instead of staying back himself.Comment
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