Dmytro Yurievich Zubko vs. Achiko Odikadze & Serdar Avcı vs. Daniel Peter Williams RBR

10-8 for "The Cream" ...he knocked the wind from "The Beast" with a jab in the gut and forced him to lean on the ropes and take a standing 8 from the ref.

Of course, it helps Radchenko's cause that Pylypenko is literally pushing fifty (he's 49, birthday in October). He used to be a tough guy, lasting 6 rounds with a young hungry Murat Gassiev...but that was in 2012 and Gassiev stopped him in their rematch the next year.

 

Salt'n'pepper gets halted midway into R2. Couldn't handle the body shots whatsoever and didn't have the reflexes to avoid them or head shots. That is the 54th loss and 24th by stoppage for Pylypenko. Might want to call it a day and enjoy his pensioner years w/o CTE.

34 year old relative spring chicken Radchenko snaps a five loss skid and improves to a positive record (barely, 8-7 now) for the first time since 2018.

 

Not quite that old, but probably shouldn't be fighting anymore. He was born during Richard Nixon's presidency. The first term!!

 

Alexander Evgenovich Hrytsiv vs. Đorđe Tomić, 6 rounds @ heavyweight

 

I remember that guy...hadn't really followed his career after calling out Haye and getting crushed.

Just had a glance at his record, that's hilarious - of his nine fights since Haye, five have been against guys named Laszlo (three of them were the same guy).

 

Considering the spare tire he's carrying, the Bosnian isn't doing too bad. Losing decisively nonetheless, but didn't come to lie down.

 

Hrytsiv vs. Tomić makes three..

 

Đorđe was brave...got up from two hard knockdowns in round two (with the better part of a minute left on the clock after the second one) and finished the it out...but he got tooled over and twatted early in the next. Oleksandr Hrytsiv just crop-dusted him with quick shots building off the jab, overwhelming him more than rocking his world.

TKO3!

 

We must be nearing the business end of the card by now... (Avcı vs. Williams and the pair of vacant UBO international title bouts, Subko vs. Odikadze at welter and Roman Alexandrovich Golovashchenko vs. Taryel Sayyad Oglu Cafarov at heavyweight)

 

I'm pretty sure there's a live in-house pianist in the Pochayna Event Hall...and he just keeps playing melodies underneath the DJ spinning electronic and hip-hop over the PA, undeterred. Kind of awesome.

 

Quite a gap in the action...up through now they've kept everything moving along with barely any delay.

Over twenty minutes and counting, empty ring.

 

Over half an hour of dead air now. Even the pianist has abandoned his post, gone to get himself a cocktail or take a crap.