Ragosina Stops Weston

By Boxing News - 03/29/2009 - Comments

ragoshina4344By Erik Schmidt: Unbeaten WIBF Women’s International Boxing Federation and WBC female super middleweight champion Natascha Ragosina (20-0, 12 KOs) Stopped challenger Iva Weston (12-5, 1 KOs) in the 6th round on Saturday night at the Mehrzweckhalle Grossziethen, Schoenefeld, in Brandenburg, Germany. Ragosina, 32, making her 11th defense of her WIBF super middleweight title, dropped Weston with a huge right hand early in the 6th round.

After Weston got up, Ragosina trapped her against the ropes and then pummeled her with six consecutive shots to the head until referee Daniel Van de Wiele stepped in and stopped the bout at 1:19 of the 6th.

Ragosina, 5’11”, towered over the 5’7″ Weston, using her height advantage to jab and pound away with right hands without the worry or being hit in return. The bout was one-sided from the start, but starting in round four, Ragosina began to land a lot of hard right hands to the head.

In response, Weston began clinching often and coming at Ragosina head first. In the 5th round, Weston was penalized a point for diving in head first to clinch. She had been warned previously, but it looked as if she was tired and trying to survive anyway she could.

Ragosina fought passively in the 1st round, which is pretty typical for her, because she often mostly bounces on her feet in the opening round and flicking her jabs. The same was true for this bout with Weston on Saturday night. Ragosina bounced around, jabbing at the air and hitting nothing.

No punches were landed in the first minute of action, but in the second half of the round Ragosina began landing some nice short right hands. Ragosina stood straight up in her European stance like she often does, firing short swatting punches at Weston. For her part, Weston landed zero punches in the round. She attempted to land several shots, but Ragosina leaned backwards to avoid the punches.

In the 2nd round, Ragosina bounced around the ring, swatting Weston with mostly right hands. Weston attempted to land, but missed roughly 90% of her shots. She finally had to resort to charging Ragosina to try and land shots. The clinched often in the round, most of the time caused when Weston would charge forward trying to land her shots. At the end of the round, Ragosina landed an excellent four punch combination to the head of Weston.

Ragosina dominated the 3rd round, attacking Weston hard at the start of the round and hitting her with a flurry of shots to the head. Weston tried charging Ragosina in a desperate attempt to land a rare punch, however, Ragosina skillfully picked her off with a hard right hand as she was coming in.

For the remainder of the round, Ragosina nailed Weston right rights. In the final seconds of the round, Ragosina walked in and landed two tremendous shots to the head of Weston.

At the end of the 4th round, Ragosina caught Weston against the ropes and landed a storm of combinations that had Weston’s head bouncing from one side to another.

Weston looked desperate at the start of the 5th, attacking Ragosina hard and clinching immediately. In the clinch, Weston roughed Ragosina up, muscling her around the ring. As soon as the two fighters were separated, Ragosina nailed Weston with a huge right hand to the head, as well as several more nice rights.

At this point, Weston came in head first for one of her many clinches in the round. The referee then stopped the action and deducted a point from Weston. However, as soon as the point was taken away, Weston went right back to diving in head first and clinching just as before.

In the 6th round, Ragosina tagged a tired looking Weston at will with combinations. Finally, Ragosina tagged Weston with a big right hand that knocked Weston into the ropes and down on the canvas. Weston was able to get up, but she was clearly hurt.

Ragosina then followed her to the ropes where Weston tried to cover up. Ragosina then finished her off with six straight head shots leading to referee Daniel Van de Wiele stepping in and stopping the bout at 1:19 of the round.



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