Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov vs. Malcolm Klassen & Dmitry Mikhaylenko vs. Islam Dumanov RBR.

Round 1: 10-9 Rakhimov
Round 2: 10-8 Rakhimov
Round 3: 10-9 Rakhimov
Round 4: 10-9 Rakhimov
Round 5: 10-9 Rakhimov
Round 6: 10-9 Klassen
Round 7: 10-9 Rakhimov
Round 8: Rakhimov wins by KO

Klassen showing toughness still trading with Rakhimov, but finally succumbs to a left hook to the body. He stays down until 9, but it is too late as the ref counts him out.

 

Good performance by Rakhimov.

 

Rakhimov is a knockout waiting to happen. A shame Klassen’s punch resistance isn’t the same.

 

I propose that we retire the belt for "Most Consonants in a Thread Title" and declare this thread the winner. Congrats, CST!

 

Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov vs Mark Urvanov, 12 rounds for the vacant IBF Baltic Super Featherweight Title and the vacant WBA Continental Super Featherweight Title

 

Damn. I missed everything.

 

Yaqubov wins a split decision

 

Only Split Decision? Wow... I stopped watching the fight halfway, because it was one sided.

 

Another good RCC Promotions event to watch, but man these 4AM start times on the west coast are killing me lol. Some of the split decision victories felt a little weird but it's feasible to imagine one of the judges' views predicated Urbanov winning I guess

 

Still waiting for the scores to be posted to boxrec to confirm the decision type. I don't understand Russian very well, so I might have got it wrong.

I thought I heard the announcer say "Yaqubov" after reading the first score, which led me to believe the scores were split.

 

As for this one, scores were:
97-93 Dumanov
97-93 Mikhaylenko
96-94 Dumanov

 

It looked competitive from the parts I actually watched. In the first round it looked like Mikhaylenko would dominate, but Dumanov turned it around and towards the end it seemed like he was in control. I didn't sense a robbery, but I did miss a lot of the action.

 

Had to go out and run some errands and it was long over by the time I had gotten back.