Matched against Jon Hill (6-3, 5), Breazeale was expected to get the job done early and that's exactly what he did taking out Hill in the third of a scheduled 8. To us it seemed pointless to schedule this for 8 when Hill was never likely to survive 4, hopefully next time they get someone Breazeale won't blast through and can actually learn something from, though we are more impressed by Breazeale through 8 than we were Deontay Wilder.
US Olympian Dominic Breazeale (7-0, 7) may have been in action just weeks ago scoring his biggest win (stoping Lenroy Thomas last month) but he returned to the ring earlier today, as part of the build up to "The One".
Matched against Jon Hill (6-3, 5), Breazeale was expected to get the job done early and that's exactly what he did taking out Hill in the third of a scheduled 8. To us it seemed pointless to schedule this for 8 when Hill was never likely to survive 4, hopefully next time they get someone Breazeale won't blast through and can actually learn something from, though we are more impressed by Breazeale through 8 than we were Deontay Wilder.
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The only Heavyweight action on Wednesday was in Slovakia thanks to a trio of bouts at the Sportova hala MSO.
The least interesting of those bouts saw the debuting Gabriel Jezko (0-1), of Slovakia, get offti a nightmare start in his career as he was taken out inside a round by compatriot Lukas Filka (5-3, 4). This was Filka's third successive victory after starting his career 2-3 In the main contest Hungarian veteran Laszlo Toth (19-8, 13) defeated Hungarian based Romanian Vasil Mandea (2-3, 1) who was unfortunately injured in the opening round. The longest of the Heavyweight bouts saw Daniel Kol (4-1, 4) extended in to the 4th round of his career for the first time as journeyman Marton Beke (3-12, 1) refused to just crumble from the off. Unfortunately at 6 combined rounds of Heavyweight action we've got to admit that the show wasn't the most exciting for fans of Heavyweight action, though it was nice to see some mid-week action. The most notable Heavyweight bout of the weekend was possibly the evidence of what makes Heavyweight so much fun. Danger.
From the minute Seth Mitchell (26-2-1, 19) walked in to the ring to face Chris Arreola (36-3, 31) he looked like dead man walking. From the second Arreola first landed, it appeared that the dead man went from walking to stumbling, in fact every punch Arreola landed seemed to send Mitchell into a stumbling, clumsy mess of human. Within seconds of Arreola connecting Mitchell's senses seemed to leave him and he attempted to hold, spoil and survive. Unfortunately for the man dubbed "Mayhem", he was totally in mayhem. Although Arreola had to throw Mitchell down to get him off him, a legitimate knockdown soon followed, and a follow up attack forced the referee's hand. For Arreola the victory might see him manage to get a fight with Deontay Wilder or a rematch with Bermane Stiverne, though for Mitchell this really could be game over of what was a nice "experiment", but an experiment in a boxing ring can be very dangerous and Mitchell will hopefully walk away before he takes any major damage. In one of the biggest shows of the day, in Denmark, the unbeaten Swede Otto Wallin (2-0, 2) recorded his second victory in the space of 3 months as he took out the seriously out classed Valeri Semiskur (18-29-1, 10) in the second round. On paper this was a good win for a fighter in just his second pro contest though Semiskur was hugely out of shape and looked very much a beaten man before he even got to the ring. Despite the shape, and recent record, of Semiskur we are fans of Wallin who has really serious potential that is hopefully going to be reached in the coming years. On a much smaller show, in Hungary, the debuting Zsolt Pocsi (1-0, 1) blasted out fellow debutant Attila Ficere (0-1) inside a round. We'll be honest, we don't know much about either man other than that we expect Ficere to move down to Cruiserweight if he wants to continue in the sport. Staying in Europe for a moment, there was a victory in Germany for Canadian Franz Rill (3-0, 2) who stopped Alban Galonnier (3-5-1, 3) of France. In Argentina we had title action as Emilio Ezequiel Zarate (18-12-3, 9) stopped novice Diego Martin Merlo (3-3, 2) in an up and down 4 rounder for the WPC South American Heavyweight title. Merlo was down in rounds 3 and 4 and Zarate himself was given a count in round 3 of what sounds like an entertaining battle. There was also a title on the line in London, England as Ian Lewison (8-2-1, 5) claimed the BBBofC Southern Area Heavyweight title. Lewison claimed arguably the biggest victory of his career to claim the belt as he stopped Tom Dallas (17-4, 12) in a result that should spell the end for Dallas. In the US there was more than just Arreola's destruction of Mitchell, with 2 bouts in Mississippi and 2 in Massachusetts. In Mississippi fans saw Greek fighter Thanasis Michaloudis (3-0, 3) scoring his third inside just a few weeks, stopping novice Tyrone Williams (0-1) in the 3rd round. On the same show the debuting Robert Hall Jr (1-0, 1) stopped veteran Marvin Hunt (12-31-1, 5), who was stopped for the 28th time in his career. At the show in Massachusetts Julian Pollard (3-0, 3) scored his second successive opening round KO as he took out the debuting Antonio Assermelly (0-1). The same show also saw Donnie Palmer (1-0-1, 1) stopping Aneudy Rodriguez (0-2) in round 3. In Canada the unbeaten Zachary Bunce (2-0, 1), apparently no relation to Britain's Steve Bunce, scored his second victory in less than 4 months as he shut out the out matched Lithuanian visitor Imantas Davidaitis (1-3, 1).
Whilst this was the third loss this year for Davidaitis it appears that he could forge a decent career as a low level journeyman. The future for Bunce is questionable though their does appear to be some potential there for him to build on. The phrase "somebody's 0 has got to go" is synonmous with big fights, of course it can also be linked to bouts between unbeaten novices, and this is exactly what we had on Golden Boy's recent show as Aaron Rosa (0-0-2) fougth to a second successive draw.
Rosa, who drew on debut with Domonique Smith last November repeated the act in his second bout by fighting to a draw with Manuel Aguirre Alvarez (1-0-1, 1). Nigerian Heavyweight Onoriode Ehwarieme (10-0, 9) continued his run of terror on the Nigerian domestic scene scoring his 9th straight stoppage by taking out Oseni Lekan (0-1) in just 2 rounds.
Ehwarieme, a 2008 Olympian probably needs to be move out of Nigeria to reach his potential and is probably more of a Cruiserweight than a Heavyweight, though for now it's going to be fun to follow his career and see just what the future brings. Just a day after Fabio Eduardo Moli was disqualifed in Argentina, we had anpther disqualification in the Heavyweight division, this time however it was in Puerto Rico as Jimmy Suarez (2-5, 2) got himself disqualified against the hard hitting Carlos Cotto (5-0, 4).
Cotto, who had entered the bout with a perfect KO record will perhaps feel a bit annoyed that his KO streak has come to an end though anyone who saw the fight will know that Suarez was on the verge of being stopped had he not clubbed Cotto with illegal shots anyway. Again, like yesterday, there was also action Argentina, this time however we didn't get the riot that followed the Moli/Vidondo fight. Instead we saw Marcelo Fabian Dominguez (44-7-1, 24), a former Cruiserweight, stopping domestic journeyman Hector Alfredo Avila (22-15-1, 14) in the 7th of a scheduled 10 rounds. In Switzerland we had the two biggest surprises of the night. Firstly the withdrawal of Arnold Gjergjaj, who was supposed to be main eventing in his adoptive Switzerland and then the subsequent opening round stoppage of Michael Sprott (37-21, 17) by Erkan Teper (11-0, 7). Sprott, whilst certainly not a world beater has rarely been stopped this early, in fact only former world champion Corrie Sanders managed to stop inside a round. Very impressive result for Teper. One of the most interesting bits of Heavyweight action for the day was in Hungary courtesy of a "Super 4" Heavyweight tournament. The tournament began with two semi-finals, these saw Tamas Bajzath stopping Attila Zsiros (1-1-1, 1) in the second round and Ferenc Zsalek defeating Istvan Ruzsinszky (11-8-1, 8), in a bout that went to an extra round after being scored a draw originally. The victories for Bajzath (8-5-1, 4) and Zsalek (12-35-3, 1) saw them competing in a final bout with Bajzath taking a 4 round decision for the top prize. |