Mark Vyacheslavovich Petrovsky vs. Kevin Blue Vladimirovich Johnson & V. Datsik vs. Oli Thompson RBR

Big and not unattractive, but man, not really much a fighter, huh?

She is listed at 6′ 4½″ (....) but got exposed by her opponent, a 5'6" journeywoman handpicked for her pro debut?

Whenever they weren't clinching up, Katsia was getting belted with overhand rights. She is going nowhere. In boxing anyway, OnlyFans model could well be the golden path.

 

Man, good for Davydova. She was absolutely not supposed to win there.

 

So, slight boo boo there on my part. When they flashed the tale of the tape graphic onscreen, I mistook the listed heights (193 and 168 respectively, in cm) for weight in pounds, forgetting that other countries that aren't assbackwards like us don't mix metric and avoirdupois.

Both are listed as weighing in at exactly 90.7kg, or 199.95lbs, but not sure I buy that. (both because that's a very coincidental number for both to land on and because it looked like a child whooping an adult's ass)

So that was in effect a cruiserweight contest, as, if the reported weight for both ladies is to be believed, both were a hair under the limit for that division.

 

That makes two bronze medalists from 2019 in a row to have awful professional outings this week (her and Maksim Babanin )

 

Since the conclusion of Kovaleva vs. Davydova there has been a bird's-eye wide shot of the audience, ring, stage and ramp (static cam installed on the ceiling) with a text graphic that includes "23.00"

Don't have to read of lick of Russian to know that means it's dead air until the main card goes live at 23:00 local time (11pm Moscow...4pm EST).

 

Main card is live. They're showing a highlights package of the four co-main event principals: Datsik, Thompson, Petrovsky and...er, Vladimirovich. That is going to seriously take some getting used to.

 

Mikhail Bufferov (actual name is Aleksander Zagorsky) in the hizzouse!

 

The first bout isn't listed on BoxRec.

It's at SMW, that much I know (76.2kg)

First guy's name is - just using the visually closest Roman alphabet letters and numbers here - 3ArAP rykACRH (the capital R is backwards), second's is AH{A}PEN EONMOD (the second A looks like an alien in a 1970's video game, the first O has a line crossing down its center, and both Ns are backwards with the first having a diacritic over it)

 

Red trunks (rykACRH) is beating the brakes off Blue trunks (EONMOD)

Vicious onslaught by the southpaw for the whole first round, dropping his opponent with a body combo with a minute left and then drilling him in a corner the rest of the way. Ref having a very close look, may stop this in the second.

10-8 rykACRH, damn near 10-7 or KO1

 

I found a Cyrillic alphabet chart, so going to reconstruct their names:

3ArAP rykACRH & AH{A}PEN EONMOD

ДHAPEЙ EФЙMOD, near enough, I've got it - Andrey Efimov. He's the one getting MURKED. Mixed martial artist and kickboxer apparently, trying his luck in the squared circle. Not going great.

Zdgar Gukasrn? is the other, according to my chart.

That doesn't look right.

Edgar Ghukasyan. ****, that was a struggle.

Armenian-Russian career light middleweight, 10-3-1.

 

It went the full four rounds. Efimov did a jumping spin-kick in his corner to celebrate, apparently thinking he might get the nod.


...he did not.

 

Zagorsky introduces Kingpin as "Kevin Vladimirovich Johnson", so maybe there is credence to reports that he changed his name thus despite conflicting accounts from the first several articles to report on it saying that he adopted Vladimirovich as his new surname.

 

Pretty epic ring walks from both, actually. KVJ out to a symphonic movement flanked by hot Russian gals with the arena darkened and the rampway lit up in blue. Petrovsky entered to a heavy metal song at first and then some traditional Russian folks with a row of dancers.

 

Anthems. Wait, no anthem. Kingpin is Russian now, so no Star-Spangled Banner.

Surreal stuff, boys.