Dimitrenko vs. Martin Rogan?
April 20th, 2009
By Erik Schmidt: According to European news correspondent Per Ake Persson, Alexander Povetkin won’t be fighting Alexander Dimitrenko for the vacant European Boxing Union heavyweight title. Apparently, there wasn’t a TV date before August 29, so now Dimitrenko is looking at facing the next highest rated fighter in the division which turns out to be Martin Rogan (12-0, 6 KOs).
If Rogan was looking for an excellent opponent, he couldn’t go wrong by choosing Dimitrenko who I consider a couple levels above Rogan’s last opponent Matt Skelton. Rogan struggled back and forth with Skelton for 10 rounds before finally putting him away in the 11th in their February 2009 bout.
That fight was a huge leap up in competition for Rogan, who many people thought would lose the fight. However, it would probably be asking Rogan way too much for him to fight an even better fighter than Skelton at this point. My guess is that Rogan won’t take the fight and will opt for an easier opponent in the UK.
Rogan’s next fight is on May 15th against Sam Sexton at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Ireland. Right now Rogan is one of the hottest fighters in the UK, so he can probably pick and choose who he wants to fight. Dimitrenko would be a popular choice for Rogan but with a huge risk attached to it due to Dimitrenko’s size and talent.
Rogan is listed at 6’3”, but is probably closer to 6’1” and doesn’t have a long reach. He’d have to turn the fight into a brawl at close range in order to have any chance of beating Dimitrenko. The fight would be a nightmare for Rogan if Dimitrenko decided to fight the bout at a distance using his jab and left hook.
If that turned out to be the case, Rogan wouldn’t stand a chance and would be sliced to bits by Dimitrenko. I doubt Rogan will stand a chance no matter where the fight is fought, but at least on the inside Rogan would have a sliver of a chance.
Dimitrenko fights well on the inside unfortunately and has a better uppercut than Rogan, so it wouldn’t just be the case of Rogan smothering him all night long.
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Martin Rogan, who cannot like the personable fighter? Yet pitted against a man with the credentials of a Dimitrenko he does not stand a ghost of a chance. The Ukrainian holds by far the better cards with height, reach and youth just some of the advantages that the equally nice guy from Hamburg, by way of the Crimea, is able to present. Alexsander’s win over Timo Hoffmann was the fight that convinced me, KO’ing the big man out of central Germany is a rare event yet Sascha Dimitrenko showed the boxing world it could be done, something even the great Vitali Klitschko was not able to engineer. Martin should look for another opponent if he is not interested in a mauling, the Ukrainian is no Micheal Sprott, Audley Harrison or Matt Skelton but rather a winner type on the way to greater things in heavyweight boxing.
I think Rogan should take this fight if he gets the opportunity. Hes 37 now and time is against him, if he wants to make a name for himself on the world stage then now is the time to do it.
Fair enough you could say Dimitrenko would beat him, and maybe he would, but you can never be sure of things in boxing and if this can get him one step closer to the top of the pile in the short time he has left then so be it.
As someone said before, he didnt expect much out of his career so he cant go about acting like a cotton-wool early 20s fighter. Take the opportunity when it comes.
i rekon he will do dimitrenko, and as for this writer……rogan may not have the jab or the height or reach but he has MASSIVE heart. which yank heavyweights do not have, rogan wont wait for his opportunity to fight an eastern european and then fall on the floor in about the 5th round and take his million euros or whatever. At least he will give it a go, something yanks heavyweights dont do for example that tony thompson bum, waits a few years…gets a million dollars falls over in 9 or 10 rounds….pathetic, no heart and no guts…..
I love Rogan and cant thank him enough for getting Aforce Harrison off our screens once and for all. Hes a true hard man and I love the way hes cleaned up the British heavyweight divison of all the deadwood and hope he gets the chance for a Euro title shot. Good luck to him!.
After Rogan destroys sam sexton , he derserves a crack at the european crown as he beat the european heavyweight matt skelton although the belt was not on the line
Bring on the russians, Rogan deserves this with all the guts,will and courage hes shown not mention a chin of iron and a great gentlemen. a credit to the sport and always speaks highly and repectfully of his opponents. unlike some of britains other trash heavyweights. Im going for Rogan in this fight as i would never bet against a man with his will. And id even back him to become heavyweight champ long before id back David gonna get crushed by goliath haye. Congrats on getting another great fight to rogan and hopefully theres more to com
Good luck to Martin, a thoroughly good man, and sportsman, who is a credit to boxing and his country. But I think this may be a step to far. Dimitrenko is in another league. He has fought very good opponents and disposed of them convincingly with skill and power. He is in my opinion better than Haye and should be ahead of him in the rankings. This will be a good fight to watch, I suspect it could be untidy, but with Martin with guts and aggression, the other with skill, it will be interesting.
Dimitrenko by TKO
Nice if Rogan gets this. Hes never expected too much out of his career and he clearly has found himself on this rollercoaster ride up in the world.
Take it, bound to be a big big underdog but so what, he has been in most the stuff hes done in the last 3 years. They keep gettin it wrong, he keeps gettin it right, when does it stop?
Real life Rocky story isnt over yet.