Charr stops Mazikin; Boytsov destroys Nesterenko

By Boxing News - 06/16/2013 - Comments

By Jim Dower: Heavyweight contender Manuel Charr (24-1, 14 KO’s) put on a body punching display last Saturday in stopping 38-year-old Ukrainian journeyman Oleksiy Mazikin (14-9-2, 4 KO’s) in the 3rd round in a scheduled 12 round fight of his WBC Baltic heavyweight title at the Karl Eckel Halle, Hattersheim am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Charr knocked Mazikin down four times in the fight with all of the knockdowns occurring by body shots. The fight was halted in the third after Charr nailed Mazikin with a perfect left to the body that put him down.

This time the referee chose to halt the fight rather than letting Mazikin pick himself up off the canvas and continue fighting.

Charr, 28, knocked Mazikin down with a right hand to the body in the 2nd round. In the 3rd, Charr dropped Mazikin with a short left to the midsection. Moments later, Charr knocked Mazikin down with another left to the body.

Mazikin was able to regroup after the knockdown, and he appeared to hurt Charr at one point with a right hand to the head. However, Charr quickly came back and left to the body that put Mazikin down for the fourth and final time in the fight.

Overall, it wasn’t a great performance from Charr other than his body punching. In between the knockdowns, Mazikin was able to hit Charr frequently and he appeared to be getting the better of him if you take away the knockdowns.

Both guys looked like club fighters, and it wasn’t a pretty fight to watch. Charr looked slow and nearly defenseless. The only thing he really had going for him in this fight was his body punching, and in that he was very good.

Charr didn’t look like a fighter that is ranked #8 by the World Boxing Council. He looked really bad. His promoters are going to need to be careful with him because if they put him in with a decent heavyweight contender like Tony Thompson, Charr would lose badly. Thompson would destroy a heavyweight like Charr, and so would a lot of other heavyweight contenders in the division.

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Heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov (33-0, 26 KO’s) was also on the card against Oleksandr Nesterenko (9-2, 4 KO’s). Boytsov stopped Nesterenko in the 3rd round after nailing him with a looping right hand that appeared to him on the back of the head. The fight was immediately stopped at that point. Nesterenko got back to his feet and staggered briefly. It was a good punch, but the placement was in a bad spot.

Nesterenko threw very punches in the three rounds of action. It was mostly Boytsov jabbing and throwing an occasional big right hand power shots to the head. There really wasn’t much action from Boytsov either.

Compared to in his previous fights a couple of years earlier, Boytsov looked flabby last night with visible fat on him and he also looked older, slower and he didn’t throw combinations like he did when he was 24 and 25.

He doesn’t look like the same fighter, and you have to wonder what’s happened to the guy because he looked like he was ready for a title shot physically back in 2010 and 2011. Right now, Boytosv looks to have declined as a fighter and it would probably not be a good idea for him to be challenging for a title against Wladimir Klitschko.



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