Artem Dalakian vs. Jozsef Ajtai RBR

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In the co-feature, former European champion Oleg Yefimovich fought to a draw with Czech featherweight Martin Parlagi. Earlier on the undercard, heavyweight fringe contender Andriy Rudenko took a UD over a nine fight novice in an 8-rounder.

Strange that Yefimovych and especially Rudenko, both Ukrainians and bigger names than Dalakian, were subordinate on a card at home to a foreigner.

 

Artem Dalakian vs. Jozsef Ajtai, 12 rounds @ flyweight

 

Round 1

Dalakian is stalking and roping out a hard jab at the face. Ajtai is dancing around, doing quick knee dips and rolling laterally as he gives Dalakian a wide berth. Ajtai jumps in trying a swatting combo and is repelled by a Dalakian straight.

10-9 Dalakian

 

Round 2

Dalakian is timing Ajtai with stiff forehead-brushing up-jabs when Ajtai circles in too close showing a cutesy double-jab feint or hungry-hippo swat from a turtle shell. Ajtai down, slip. The ring canvas is made of slippery material to begin with and the corner appears to be glistening with some moisture to boot. Dalakian keeps putting the pressure on, landing some big uppercuts on the body in tight quarters as he muscles Ajtai onto the ropes, but invariably Ajtai goes down just due to lack of traction between his shoes and the mat. They may as well douse the entire surface with canola oil.

10-9 Dalakian

20-18 Dalakian

 

Round 3

Dalakian is knocking Ajtai back with even blocked shots, just demonstrably much stronger in there. Ajtai repeatedly going down but never as the direct result of a punch so much as traversing slick terrain. Dalakian has apparently had enough of this nonsense and is sick of seeing Ajtai fall without getting any credit for it, as he steps up his inside game, cutting the ring off and thudding home some hard left hooks. Ajtai down, hurt, but up. More body shots by Dalakian, sticking a hard right into the floating rib. Left hook on the liver, and whip-snap right uppercut on the flank, and once more Ajtai goes down. That'll be all.

TKO3!!

 

I was literally just about to start typing "Dalakian better stop him this round or in the 4th if he wants to leave a remotely decent impression for those of us here getting a first glimpse at him.."

 

So he was born Azerbaijani, currently Ukrainian-based (has fought his entire pro career there), and yet from the name I am 100% sure he must be ethnically Armenian.

Seems fairly powerful for a fly...and his record bears that out. 14-0 (10 and not a bad roster of faced opposition. The most striking result is a stoppage of Silvio Olteanu, until you delve a little deeper and see it was on a cut and there weren't any knockdowns - but still, he was up 69-64 on all three judges' cards when it got stopped and Olteanu is pretty decent.

He was taken a full twelve by Filipino training-dummy Juan Purisima (whom Chocolatito easily annihilated in three in Purisima's next outing) but pitching a shutout-plus, decking him multiple times.

He is 29 and has fluctuated around the fly range. Moving up to super at least might be wise as his power will still be in play while his relatively substandard hand speed will be a diminishing concern the further up he goes. Hard to get a read on his technical skill from just eight minutes of chasing a no-hoper around essentially a field of banana peels, but he seems to be a B+ stalker-puncher with some fair infighting ability but not the cleverest boxer at range.

...and now we know Artem Dalakian. A little, anyway.

 

Anybody else watching this small child beasting at billiards now??

 

Ajtai you might remember getting shut out* by Zou Shiming on the Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Román Martínez undercard.

*100-89 - but Zou never put Ajtai down, there was a point deduction.

From this, what do we extrapolate? That we have a new dangerous impact player in Dalakian? Nah not necessarily. All we can really say for certain is, as we knew, that Zou is a feather-fisted joke.

 

Seriously though why is a like 7 year old playing versus an eighteen year old?