KOld Wars 4: Ismail Iliev vs. Asinia Byfield & Zhan Sergeevich Kossobutskiy vs. Kamil Sokołowski RBR

Welp...no debating that one.

 

good performance from Zhan

 

Damn, he almost made it. Between his toughness and Kossobutskiy looking pretty gassed it seemed reasonable that he could last another ~2min. Alas.

The power is real, but I don't trust the Kazakh's ring IQ or conditioning all that much based on this. Room for improvement but not writing him off.

 

Still way better than Makhmodov though, who doesn't impress me at all in anything other than power and strength

 

Kossobutskiy looks vulnerable but he has very good power and he is a decent fighter. Nice addition to the heavyweight division.

 

That power though and he showed some improvements in the Rice fight. Using the jab more, cutting the ring off better.

 

@SladeW mind if your title gets infused w/ diacritics (and Zhan's middle name)?

 

Heartbreaking. Moral victory taken away.

 

Needs to work on that jab, when it came down to it he got outdone in that category. By a very good journeyman but a journeyman nonetheless (and if you're ultimately HW championship hopeful material you've gotta have a good enough jab to not get styled on by any journeymen)

 

Albert Khamkhoev
vs. Pavel Semjonov
6 rounds

 

Speaking of highly respectable journeymen, here comes Pavel Semjonov - the pound for pound boxing pride of Estonia

 

We talking Zhan or Makhmodov here? Or both?

 

Ismail Adlopovich Iliev vs. Asinia Byfield after this or more undercard?