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Serhii Bohachuk (25-2, 24 KOs) regarded highly effective dispatching Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) in a sixth-round TKO of their WBC junior middleweight title eliminator final Saturday evening in Riyadh.
Bohachuk’s Energy Show
The combat was stopped after the sixth spherical by referee Hector Afu after Davis’ nook selected to have the competition halted. With the arduous photographs Bohachuk had hit him with in rounds 5 and sixth, Davis wouldn’t have made it by means of the seventh with out being knocked out. The official time of the stoppage was at 3:00 of spherical six.
By 4 rounds, the combat was generally aggressive, with Ishmael having transient moments however largely getting royally hammered by Bohachuk. Within the fifth and sixth, it was one-sided with the Ukrainian Bohachuk teeing off on Davis at medium and shut vary.
Bohachuk vs. Davis Punch Stats
– Ishmael Davis: 65 of 223 punches for 29.1%– Serhii Bohachuk: 135 of 414 for 32.6%
Most of Bohachuk’s photographs landed within the combat had been energy punches, which explains why he shortly wore down Davis to get his sixth-round stoppage. Bohachuk related on 108 energy punches and 27 jabs of the 414 punches he threw within the combat. He had wonderful accuracy on his energy punches, touchdown 41.1% of them. That’s a excessive quantity for a fighter with Bohachuk’s type of energy.
Davis Outmatched
Surprisingly, Davis thought he might combat Serhii on the within. What a mistake. The brief punches from Bohhachuk resembled the photographs that mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev throws. They don’t appear to be they’re highly effective, however they do injury. It was fascinating that Davis didn’t attempt to adapt by transferring away, but it surely most likely wouldn’t have mattered.
Davis’ promoter, Eddie Hearn, regarded gloomy within the crowd after watching him get dropped by a left hook from Bohachuk in spherical two. Ishmael, 29, had fought properly in spherical one, touchdown a looping proper hand that momentarily backed the previous WBC interim 154-lb champion Bohachuk off.
Davis nailed Bohachuk with a pleasant proper hand within the fourth spherical, however that wasn’t sufficient to again him off. Serhii stored pressuring him, hitting him with arduous punches and never letting him get a lot of a breather in between assaults.
Davis’ motion wasn’t almost sufficient to forestall Bohachuk from slicing off the ring and persevering with to bludgeon him with chopping GGG-esque energy photographs. The punches weren’t thrown with loads of pace, however man, they had been sporting Ishmael down.
Bohachuk is now the WBC necessary for 154-lb champion Sebastian ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora. He’s not going to be getting a title shot any time quickly, sadly. Fundora might be defending in opposition to Errol Spence subsequent, and he might select to combat another person after that in a cash combat, like Terence Crawford.
An fascinating combat that I want to see is Bohachuk in opposition to Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. Nevertheless, given Boots’ determination to remain at welterweight to try to unify the division, he most likely would reject a harmful combat in opposition to Bohachuk, regardless of how a lot cash Turki Alalshikh provided him. It will be enjoyable to see how Ennis would do buying and selling energy photographs in opposition to Bohachuk.
With Jaron’s porous protection, Bohachuk would have a discipline day in opposition to him, touchdown at will and having a better time than he did in opposition to Davis. Boots is promoted by Hearn. He would most likely resist the concept of Ennis combating Bohachuk, realizing that it wouldn’t finish properly for him.
