Comments Thread For: Braehmer vs Averlant Early Results From Hamburg

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21-year old Swede Anthony Yigit (2-0, 1 KO) looked dominant but failed to stop his overmatched Belarussian opponent Andrey Gromyko (9-6-3, 9 KOs) in the opening bout of a big night of boxing in Hamburg, Germany, promoted by Sauerland Event. Yigit looked superior in every department, cut his opponent's nose in the second round and cruised to an easy unanimous decision. Gromyko dropped his fifth straight.

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As I understand it, Dirks keeps his title. The ukranian weighed in 3 kilo's above the limit and after a dump and a stint in the sauna, he was still half a kilo over the limit, so this was a non-title fight.

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Why did Jack leave Salas

[MarcianoFan]

As I understand it, Dirks keeps his title. The ukranian weighed in 3 kilo's above the limit and after a dump and a stint in the sauna, he was still half a kilo over the limit, so this was a non-title fight.

Pretty sure it becomes vacant if the overweight guy wins. Not that Dirks deserves to have any title worth having anyway. He was barely a top 50 fighter going in.

I have a bone to pick with the author about the Arslan fight. The dude dominated. The fact that Vekiloglu won any rounds at all can be attributed to one of two judging mental disorders. One, they may have failed to understand that blocked punches aren't scoring punches. Vekiloglu was very busy, but Arslan picked off almost all of it with his high guard. Most of them were weak jabs that didn't have a prayer of getting through. The only times VV had any success at all was when he set his feet and went to the body (a rarity) and once in a blue moon when Arslan backed him to the ropes and started wailing on him, he'd get a sneaky counter shot in- typically of little consequence. The other possible explanation is that the judges somehow equated blatant running with ring generalship- a conflation that is common among so-called boxing purists, and which causes me to nearly become ill. A general can't command the field while in full retreat.

In truth, the only time in the whole fight that VV even had a hint of sustained success was the first half of the 10th, when Arslan's defense faltered a bit and VV decided to fight boldly. But even then, Arslan landed plenty of clean hard shots in the second half to carry the round. The only two rounds I saw as being even pretty close were 6 and 10, and even those were pretty clear. How you get to 97-93 is beyond me. That's a score to keep under wraps, because it makes you look ridiculous to anyone who seriously scored the fight and knows how.