Zamig Atakishiyev vs. Saúl Becerra Gil & Daulet Talakovich Daukenov vs. Mahsud Jumaev RBR

This poor kid, Maurer. His corner, the ref, and the Yekaterinburg commission all failing him big time. Nobody looking out for his long-term health.

 

Round 4

Turgumbekov is backing Maurer up, lowering his output a little from the previous three, landing lead lefts on the crown and then pivoting right to pop a couple of jabs on the gob. Maurer is opening up with a right hook dipping forward and then slashing down with a left. He mistimes and gets countered, shook up but still firing. Maurer game until the end, throwing wide upper-hooks dragging the air between their waists on the way in, getting turned & check-hooked all over his thoroughly bruised muzzle.

10-9 Turgumbekov

40-35 Turgumbekov

 

Where is everybody? Et tu, @Boxing Prospect - have you forsaken me and this motley crew of scrappy little post-Soviet novices?

 

UD for Turgumbekov, who dons a traditional Kyrgyz fuzzy golden topu hat while the scorecards are read.

 

@Somachenko you've missed nearly half the card, and you were perhaps (the only person) more excited about it than I was!

 

Arslan Yallyev vs. Vladimir Kuvaev, 4 rounds @ heavyweight

 

I'd be shocked if Kuvaev wasn't an enforcer in the Russian mafia. Most thuggish looking guy you could imagine, straight from Central Casting.

 

Yallyev out to Roy Jones' Can't Be Touched.

If he reaches any great heights in the sport, when cutting promos after the fights he should totally adopt "Yallyev - must've forgot!" as his catchphrase.

 

Round 1

Yallyev is longer, taller & quicker. This becomes a mismatch in a hurry as Yallyev is tattooing Kuvaev with jabs & right crosses from a comfortable distance. Kuvaev is soaking it all up, keeping his gloves pinned together over his nose and plodding forward, directly into the path of Yallyev's jab. A few awkward reaches grazing below the elbows - clearly nobody has shown Yallyev how to properly hook the body.

10-9 Yallyev

 

Round 2

More of the same, Yallyev starting to up the ante with less of a gap between shots, throwing a continuous straight volley to apply pressure and even wending an uppercut into the left armpit when Kuvaev momentarily splits his defenses to attempt his own jab. Kuvaev pushed onto the ropes where his noggin is jacked in several directions by a calculated barrage of pot shots from Yallyev. Ref steps in.

TKO2!!

 

Both were making their pro debut. Yallyev is now 1-0 (1) and Kuvaev will probably return to his day job of breaking debtor's legs and herding young mail order brides into freight intermodal containers.

 

Oh man that was super awkward. Yallyev grabbed the mic and made an impromptu victory speech in the middle of the ring, and punctuated with something that sounded very much like "Allah Hu Akbar" - to which...crickets. The crowd just stared at him, and he didn't have an entourage or even any corner people in the ring with him. Just pumped his fist in the air, shrugged, dropped the mic, and left.

 

Ravshan Ergashev vs. Artem Sarbei, 6 rounds @ middleweight