Pirog outclassed Ishida. Glazkov stopped Oloukun

%foto2%Tuesday 1 May 2012. Sport Complex Krylatskoe, Moscow, Russia Report from ringside In the main event of the evening WBO World middleweight Champion Dmitry Pirog (Russia) kept his boxing record flawless and defended his title in good style against former WBA «regular» World light middleweight belt-holder Nobuhiro Ishida (Japan). During twelve action-package rounds Pirog completely outthinking and outlandind tough challenger. Ishida showed great chin and tried to change course of fight till the final bell but failed to do it cause of higher boxing class of Champion. First two rounds was probing and even but from the 3rd stanza Pirog turned fight in his advantage and dominated until the final bell. Dmitry went forward and constantly landed overhand rights, original left punches from left-and-below (which started like uppercuts but landed like hooks) and left hooks to the body. Ishida put Champion some trouble with his stiff jabs but the most of challengers shots was neutralized by Pirog’s elaborate defense who as usual use head & body movement and holded his gloves and elbows up to avoid challenger’s punches. In the late rounds Pirog tried to make KO and increased the pressure As a result Ishida was stunned a little twice (in the beginning of 10th and 12th rounds) but he recovered pretty quickly so Pirog wasn’t’ able to developed these successes and couldn’t finish iron-chinned Japanese. A tribute to the challenger’s he showed not only great durability but a huge will power to win when he traded punches with hard-hitting Russian but Pirog has just way better skills for this type of fight. After the fight was over all three judges have recognized Dmitry Pirog as a winner: 120-108, 119-109 and 118-111.. So Pirog is 20-0 (15 KOs) right now and Ishida is fallen to 24-8-2 (9 Kos). Hot heavyweight prospect Vyacheslav Glazkov (Ukraine) who won silver at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the Super heavyweight class and a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games earned the best win in his professional career when he stopped always-dangerous banger Gbenga Oloukun (Nigeria) in 7th stanza. Temp of this fight was low and during the first five rounds there was the same situation in the ring when Glazkov controlled the fight peppering his foe with stiff jabs and periodically laded 3-4 punches combinations. Also Glazkov constantly punished Gbenga with looping right hands to the ear when Nigerian fighter bended trying to avoid jabs. Ukrainian’s punches did not look hard cause he didn’t put his weight & power in that shots but they were sharp and kept Nigerian at the distance. From time to time Oloukun jumped forward with swings trying to land one KO punch but was too slow and missed with almost all that wild shots. In the 6th stanza Vyacheslav increased pressure and starting to put more power in his own punches. t At 1:26 of round seven Glazkov threw quick combination following by sharp left hook to the liver that force Gbenga to squat on his knee. Oloukon got up but it was too late cause refery has already counted full ten-count so Glazkov won by KO 7. So Glazkov upgraded his record to 12-0 (8 KOs) when Oloukun dropped to 19-8 (12 KOs). Cruiserweight prospect Dmitry Kudryashov (Russia) remained undefeated and once again proved his nickname «Kuvalda» (that means «Sledgehammer») as he quickly demolished late sub Oleksiy Varagushyn (Ukraine). Pro-debutant Varagushyn was badly KOed by «Kuvalda» at 2:38 of the very first round. So Kudryashov kept his record unblemished with 100% KO ratio 5-0 (5 RJ) when Varagushyn dropped to 0-1 Still unbeaten super middleweight Maxim Chemezov (Russia) barely outpointed gutsy debutant Sergey Akimov (Russia) by MD (40-36, 40-37, 38-38) in a competitive and crowd pleasured four-rounds slugfest. So Chemezov upgraded his record to 5-0 (2 KOs) when Akimov dropped to 0-1. Light heavyweight Dmitry Kadeykin (Russia) made successful pro-debut when he won four-round fight by UD against no-hoper Fuad Muradov (Russia). Scorecards in this fight weren’t claimed. So Kadeykin’s record is 1-0 (0 КОs) now and Muradov fell to 1-7-2 (0 KOs)