Miguel Ángel Berchelt vs. Maxwell Awuku

So then I guess we can extrapolate that for guys like Ike Quartey or Silence Mabuza (not Ghanaian, but I'm going to assume these problems with tribalism are not endemic to just the one nation, but close enough to Pan-African) to machete their way through all those entanglements and emerge on the international scene means they had to be REALLY special, and jump through more hoops than most of their world class peers in other countries?

 

Yordan (significantly post-Vetyeka, where I thought he looked already on the downslide) dropping Awuku is enough to convince me that Berchelt will destroy him.

 

Yeah, preaching to the choir here, Bazooka was my #1 favorite boxer for a number of years (in between MAB and Mijares/Kessler). Caught some really rough breaks, both with international boxing politics (to say nothing of the domestic stuff he went through early on, which I know nothing of but I'm sure was a struggle) and on the judges' cards. Robbed thrice (I don't agree with Ike that he got screwed vs. Vargas, though it was close - but certainly he deserved the nod over Maestrito López, ODLH, and Forrest) - and the Winky fight should have never happened. I was a pretty big Wright fan until that disgrace, too.

 

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Well...that happened, I guess.

It took Berchelt about 90 seconds to figure out how to land on someone that was both a southpaw and taller (having never faced that combination before; his previous lefty opponents were all his own height or less), and then it was just a matter of working that lumber saw until ...tim-ber!