By Nate Anderson: Former BBBofC British light welterweight champion Lenny Daws (18-1-1, 7 KOs) took apart an over-matched Sergejs Savrinovics (4-11-1, 2 KOs) on Saturday night, stopping him in the 6th round in Robin Park Centre, Wigan, in Lancashire. With a series of hard body shots, Daws, 30, caused referee Howard John Foster to step in and halt the fight in the 6th round as Savrinovics absorbing terrible punishment along the ropes.
Daws was never troubled in the fight, easily beating Savrinovics in all six rounds. In rounds one through four, Daws used his powerful jab to control the action. In the 5th and 6th, Daws began landing huge body shots, ripping into Savrinovics and causing him a lot of problems.
Savrinovics play acted as if Daw’s body attack wasn’t giving him any concern, but it clearly was. At one point in the 6th, Savrinovics dropped both his hands to his midsection after getting hit with a particularly hard body shot. Daws then quickly switched his shots upstairs, drilling Savrinovics with a perfect left-right combination to the head.
Daws, 5’10”, tall for a light welterweight, easily controlled the 1st round, hitting Savrinovics with ramrod jabs to the head and rights to the head. Savrinovics fought back hard, throwing hard hooks to the body, but he wasn’t throwing enough punches in the round to stay competitive. Daws had a lot to do with that, as his hard jab kept Savrinovics bottled up for much of the round on the outside where he was unable to get his punches off.
Daws continued to outwork Savrinovics in the 2nd round, jabbing him with double jabs to the head and nailing him with big uppercuts when Savrinovics would stray inside. Savrinovics did very little in the round and was limited to a few jabs a couple of hooks.
Savrinovics fought much better in the 3rd round, attacking Daws hard and landing some nice combinations to the head of Daws in the first half of the round. However, Daws came back and landed hard combinations of his own and strong hooks to the body. The body punches were nothing short of superb, thrown with incredible power and perfectly placed as well.
In the 4th round, Daws began to concentrate more on throwing power punches, mostly right hands, to the head of Savrinovics and rarely using his jab. Savrinovics looked desperate to try and connect with his own punches, at point rushing at Daws, missing him and falling to the ropes.
In the 5th and 6th rounds, Daws once again changed his punch arsenal, now focusing exclusively on throwing powerful body shots. More than any other punches that Daws threw in the fight, these seemed to have a debilitating effect on Savrinovics, who was clearly bothered by the powerful shots and began to lean forward from getting hit with so many of them.
Savrinovics tried bluffing Daws in the 6th, motioning him forward like he wanted more. Daws, naturally obliged and continued hitting him with massive body shots. Savrinovics then retreated to the ropes and was taking some devastating body shots. The referee, seeing that Savrinovics was taking a terrible beating, stepped in and halted the bout in the 6th.