Ievgen Khytrov

I think James5000 has a point for a change, he's been sparring with Jacobs, and let's be honest, who is the protected guy in these sparring sessions? Its Danny, so he's probably been laying it on Khytrov and Derevyanchenko, and they've been playing the dutiful sparring partner and not going all out, and whether people want to admit it or not, repeated punches to the head in sparring kind of softens up someone for a KO. See the Dawson-Miranda pre-Ward sparring story for example.

Maybe Ievgen came into the match slightly concussed and when he ate that huge overhand right it exacerbated it big time. Which lead to his eventual KO loss tonight, maybe I'm making excuses because I'm a big Khytrov fan, but **** like that happens and it should be taken into consideration. Maybe it was just that it was a shot he never saw coming, it was actually amazing he was able to survive the first round, most would have been KO'd, and again after the first KD, his chin is pretty damn impressive really.

No need to write him off just yet, after all I and many people made that mistake with Badou Jack, and he proved all of his chin doubters wrong.

 

Agree they're pretty worthless, I've been wanting the same thing for a while as well, hopefully this will be his wake up call. Papa Lomachenko needs to get his children back under his wing and help them keep their skill fine tuned.

 

It had nothing to do with Aleem's slickness, it was just that Ievgen ran face first into a massive overhand right to the temple/top of the head, the rest of the match was all Khytrov when he wasn't getting dropped. Aleem was out on his feet several times during the match as well.

 

Agree, he's spotty as hell, he looked like hell against Brinson, but he looked like he was back on track with the Mendez win, he'd ironed out a few of his kinks and was applying intelligent pressure, he looked great I got my hopes up again, and tonight he looked like he'd regressed back to his Melendez, Coley, Brinson level again.

 

Khytrov won every round he wasn't dropped or hurt in, as in he made it look easy, if Khytrov had of boxed a little more defensively, he would have beaten Aleem with ease, they need a rematch, and Khytrov f he can work on avoiding the overhand right, which he did occasionally, he stops Aleem.