Finally saw Kessler vs. Sartison

Shows how good Calzaghe's chin Is since Kessler's putting guys In stretchers and punishing them so badly.

 

Yes, but due to Calzaghes evasiveness, he never received the full impact.

 

After watching the fight, I´m left with an odd feeling. Styles make fights as mentioned a 1000 times before, and I hope that is the reason why I did not find Kesslers performance as good as I hoped it to be.
Granted, his physique was amazing. After the fight he looked like was ready to go another 10 rounds.
Some of you guys are talking about ring rust, I´m hoping thats the case.
Maybe he just realised that Sartison was pretty dangerous with that right, and decided to play it safer than he did vs Andrade for example. He HAD to win the fight, and i guess that´s what counts.
Hmm, maybe im worried for no reason at all. Time will tell:roll:

 

Don't be worried, its rust. He gets better as the fight progresses, which is a sure sign of rust. He just started to get his confidence and timing back.

 

I didn't think he played it safer than in the Andrade fight. Quite the contrary.

He has also added some facets to his game. More uppercuts, more varied way of boxing, but as TFFP says, some of the timing and speed is lost due to ring rust, but could also be because he have had too much physical training upto the fight, which decreases speed greatly.

 

Kessler with more work is a must needed thing and will make him one of the best fighters in the world. I got the Sartison fight, still was a good technical display and typical Kessler domination.

Pavlik would have struggled with Sartison, :rofl at people comparing him to Lockett.

 

Yes, at least he has listened to some of our prayers, and gotten a new coach influence. Lets just hope that it doesn't confuse him more than it does him good.

Yeah, while Sartison had stamina he was competitive. Too bad for him the referees are unemployed while Kessler boxes, which means no rest. Maybe he should learn how to clinch?

 

To me it seemed a bit confusing in Kesslers corner with his two coaches. It didn´t seemed that organized between the two, with Richard Olsen giving his advice first in danish, and then Montoya with no idea of what Olsen just said.

Sartisons major problem was the pace of the fight. I am pretty sure that he was in the best form of his life, but he had never fought at this high pace and intensity, and it killed him in the end!

 

Well, we can agree on that he did not throw as many combos against Sartison as he did against Andrade right? He let his hands go alot more in that fight, thus opening himself more.
Sure, he has added some new dimensions in his boxing, and I guess he has to adapt to this. Don´t get me wrong, Kessler boxed a good fight, and I think Sartison´s awkward style can be one of the reasons for my odd feeling, which btw is deteriorating now I read what you guys are writing. Thank you ESB:yep

 

Well I just rewatched the fight and Im very impressed by Sartison and his skill, stamina and tactics. He had clearly seen the Calzaghe fight and knew that if he could feint and use angles he could have a chance.

That what was he was doing from round 1 to 6 - without being successfull.

But his endurance (and chin) was very good. The uppercut he receives in round 6 is brutal - and at least as hard as the one Calzaghe felt in the fourth.

Sartisons skill was also pretty good - he was at times performing slick and he is a good counterpuncher with a good left and right hook. Pretty fast as well.

Sartison might end up being the euro champ and he could surprise some of the top 10 contenders imho.



Kesslers performance was acceptable. And typical btw. He was trying to read his opponent in he first couple of rounds and then open up from the fourth or so. I noticed that he was going for the body alot more than usual but at the same time I noticed that he lowered his left a bit too much throughout the fight, which wont do against the more skillfull opponents such as Bute, Dawson, Pavlik, Abraham and the likes.


But all in all a typical Kessler performance - wrecking his opponent with his superior skill, strenght, generalship, jab etc. Sartison should have been pulled out of the fight excactly between the 9th and 10th round btw. He was gone already then.

 

Would you by any chance have a link to the full fight?

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P4V2MARO

I dont know if its allowed - but here you go.

 

well kessler and palle wouldnt risk him if he didnt have a belt. we all know that.

 

Thanks man :good

 

Enjoy :happy