Bigger's Better XXIII: Chalcidice, Greece RBR

Round 1

Baltatzis is raising and dropping his arms, riding the elevator up and down past his ears. Tsoukalas is slapping down with heavy right hands, repeatedly beating Baltatzis to the punch. Baltatzis jumps up from a deep bow with some wide hooks. The taller Tsoukalas just leans back to avoid them. Big right hands landing for Tsoukalas. Baltatzis has faster hands flurrying up from crouches while strafing but has no consistent aim or sense of control to his work. The bigger Greek is just pummeling him with overhands, imposing his strength and walking him down. Baltatzis is helping his adversary by not minding where he is going.

10-9 Tsoukalas but not much tidiness from either

 

Round 2

Tsoukalas is standing in front of Baltatzis, throwing slow telegraphed right hands with no jab and getting drilled by the little buzz-saw. Baltatzis is landing cleaner, jumping up with looping overhand rights from a crouch and putting in left hooks on the jaw. Standing eight count given to Tsoukalas. He steps forward and tries a combination but is rattled by fast bursts of looping counters as Baltatzis pitches forward on his toes. Tsoukalas is pushed into the ropes and given another standing eight. His corner throws in the towel.

TKO2!

 

:yep He probably desperately wanted to.

 

Who? :huh

Cetinkaya is a Turk.

edit: Oh, right, nationalized German.

edit 2: they just called him the favorite again.

 

This EuroSport UK guy is humiliating himself.

He keeps harping on about what great competition Özcan Cetinkaya has faced.

Yes, but he was dominated/shut out/stopped by all of them!! :yep

 

Quarter-Final #2:

Özcan Cetinkaya vs. Alexander Kartozia, 3 rounds @ heavyweight