News: Kessler-Perdomo a Rating Success – In Denmark
September 14th, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: Last Saturday night’s bout between World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler and his number #1 mandatory challenger Gusmyr Perdomo was a big ratings success in Denmark, grabbing a market share of 72% who watched it on TV2. Kessler, 30, stopped Perdomo in the 4th round in a bout that took place at the MCH Messecenter Herning, in Herning, Denmark.
If that turns out to be the case, that wouldn’t be all that surprising because Kessler isn’t well known in the U.S. aside from with die hard boxing fans and he still as of yet hasn’t built up a large fan base. The fight itself was rather a dull one with Kessler missing many of his shots, taking few chances and getting hit a lot by the southpaw Perdomo.
Kessler did come on and knock Perdomo down at the end of the 3rd round with a right hand. In the 4th, the bout was stopped after Kessler hurt Perdomo with a right hand and then threw a flurry of punches, missing all but one. The fight was stopped anyway in what many, including this writer, felt was a slightly premature stoppage of the fight.
Overall, it wasn’t the type of fight that Kessler needed to whet the appetites of boxing fans to see him in the Super Six tournament. Kessler needed to look much more impressive by coming out gunning for a knockout win. Instead, Kessler fought in a mostly technical manner until the end of the 3rd round when he finally turned it on and started letting his hands go. I personally wasn’t impressed at all with Kessler and thought he didn’t look all that great. Maybe it was the time off from boxing. He had been away for a year before this fight, but whatever it was, he looks to have lost something in the time away from boxing.
In contrast to Kessler’s lackluster performance on Saturday night, his November 21st opponent, American Andre Ward, stopped Shelby Pudwill in the 3rd round in an impressive offensive display of power punching. Ward went out looking for a knockout from the first start of the fight throwing a lot of heavy leather. Ward wasn’t afraid to get hit and took Pudwill’s best shots in order to get his own punches in.
Ward showed better hand speed and punch variety than Kessler in his fight. In almost every way, Ward looked like the more exciting fighter than Kessler did in his fight. However, it’s not a big surprise that Kessler had big ratings in Denmark, because they don’t have a lot of boxing stars in their country compared to the U.S.
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It’s not just us in the UK that Scott dislikes!! 72% Of the viewing audience is fantastic and should be applauded, it’s a shame USA fighters are not anywhere near as popular in their own country…
while ward certainly hasn’t fought anyone of kessler’s caliber, I think it should be a very interesting fight. I do think Kessler is the favorite in the super six, with abraham close behind.
i really didnt think ward was very impressive and it was a poor opponent compared to kesslers to me ward didnt do much at all and his opponent looked fine compared to the semiconcious perdomo
“Ward went out looking for a knockout from the first start of the fight throwing a lot of heavy leather. Ward wasn’t afraid to get hit and took Pudwill’s best shots in order to get his own punches in” A bit like Froch then? Yet because Ward is from your homeland it’s the second coming of Christ! Gilfoid this article contradicts everything you have said about Froch.
Gilfoid or what ever his name is is a complete TOOL….
You criticise Kessler for boxing too technically but will constantly praise somebody like Dirrell for their technical non-slugger approach.
“Ward wasn’t afraid to get hit and took Pudwill’s best shots in order to get his own punches in”
If that was say Carl Froch for example (who has an all action style and isn’t afraid to take a shot to land his own bombs) that would be a twisted in to a negative. These articles are full of contradictions and have more holes than a block of swiss cheese!
On the flip side you could argue that it took Ward 3 rounds of constant pressure to stop a stationary blown up middleweight whereas Kessler stopped a mobile, natural super middleweight a round later on the back of one punch. The two fights tell me that Kessler carries real power whereas Ward might have trouble stopping anybody that can actually move and punch back!
mmmmm….. you are not impressed by a 3rd round knockdown and a 4th round ko? Im just glad that Kessler did miss with lots of his punches or it would have been over that much quicker. As for him not being popular with Americans. So what! Americans are only interested in American boxers, thats not really news. As for the fight being a hit in Denmark, Maybe UK TV channels should take notice of that. They need to start getting the big fights back on over here, since we have had many great champions.
LMFAO yes ward gave him a terrible beating but it took him 3 rounds of constant pressure where as it took kessler ONE flush shot and he went straight down. Premature stoppage HAHAHA boxing is a sport and you don’t want to hurt your opponent more than you have to perdomo didn’t know what day of the week it was! Keep knocking kessler it makes it all the sweeter when he smashes ward to pieces. We will see first hand how good ward actually is against the best in the division.
cant u suck up to ward a bit more u arse licker, u american or somet?