Nikodem Piotr Jeżewski vs. Stephen Ormain Cunningham

Weird random fight headlining on PolSat three weeks from tomorrow.

Jeżewski comes off an unspectacular shutout of Vladimir Řezníček on the Michał Cieślak vs. Yuri Grigorievich Kashinsky undercard in May. Cunningham returned from a four year ring absence to defeat the debuting former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Francisco Santos "Frank" Mir III on the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren undercard in a just-as-gimmicky but like that main event still officially sanctioned professional six-rounder.

Jeżewski had been targeting a rematch with Cieślak, but getting stopped by Lawrence Okolie last December has put those plans on ice for the foreseeable while. Cunningham - for anyone too young or new to boxing to know - is a popular "foreign" opponent among Polish boxing fans, dating to his rivalries with national heroes Krzysztof "Diablo" Włodarczyk and Tomasz "Goral" Adamek over the IBF cruiserweight title in the mid-late aughts (going 1-3 overall versus the pair, and 1-2 at CW for the belt, all four being razor-thin bouts ending in split or majority decisions). He also fought Krzysztof Henryk Głowacki and lost a UD in 2016, so notching a victory over him is something of a pastime for 200lbers from Poland - at least world class ones (a tier Jeżewski hasn't proven himself as belonging to, yet).

Both men are 6'3", but Cunningham enjoys a 7" advantage in wingspan...perhaps nullified by his being 150% older than Jeżewski at 45!

 

Co-main will be Congolese former WBA interim cruiserweight titlist Youri Kayembre Mutshafu "El Toro" Kalenga vs. tough Ukrainian journeyman Sergey Alexandrovich "Kremen" Radchenko.

 

So, interesting fight then, no? Polish journeyman and over the hill American ex-titlist, who takes it?

 

I think @UnleashtheFURY will find train-wreck appeal in this, at least.

 

So it was cleaner than his stoppage loss to Cieślak?
(before it was overturned for both failing drug tests)

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USS is out with a shoulder injury. Jeżewski will now face 31 year old Cameroonian-French glass cannon Samuel Kadje, who is 16-1 (13).