(Photo Credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events) By Allan Fox: Heavyweight Derric Rossy (29-9, 14 KOs) found himself on the receiving end of a very controversial 10 round majority decision loss to #2 IBF Vyacheslav “Czar” Glazkov (18-0-1, 11 KOs) last Saturday night at the Sands Bethlehem in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The judges scored the fight 95-95, 96-94, and 98-92. Rossy was fine with the score of 95-95, although he believes he won at least 6 of the 10 rounds. But he took issue with the 98-92 score by one of the judges, who appeared to be watching another fight altogether. After the fight, Rossy spoke on the issue of the judging and wondering where the accountability is for judges.
Rossy landed the cleaner shots throughout the fight, and gave Glazkov all kinds of problems. In the 3rd round, Rossy hit Glazkov with a tremendous right uppercut that snapped his head back violently.
Glazkov was able to take the shot, but it was a punch that few other heavyweights would have been able to take. Glazkov pressured Rossy for the entire 10 rounds, and was constantly the one coming forward. But Rossy was the guy landing the cleaner shots and he connected on more of his punches.
Rossy connected on 184 of 738 punches compared to Glazkov’s 159 of 400.
“It’s hard to get the words together,” Rossy said after the fight. “I am trying to find out what they were looking at. There is no accountability. You are messing with peoples’ lives. I take my hat off to Glazkov. I know I won that fight. When it is very askew you have to wonder, where is the accountability?”
In other fights on the card:
Unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Vasily Lepikhin (16-0, 9 KOs) easily beat Robert Berridge (24-2-1, 20 KOs) by a 5thround TKO. Lepikhin dropped Berridge with a chopping right hand in the 2nd round. In the 5th, Lepikhin landed a flurry of shots to put Berridge down on the canvas. After he got up, Lepikhin flurried again to knock him down for the second and final time in the round. The fight was then stopped by referee Gary Rosato at 1:04 of the round. Lepikhin looks like a promising fighter. He could make waves in the 175 pound division in the future.
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Big punching heavyweight prospect Joseph Parker (10-0, 9 KOs) stayed unbeaten in stopping Keith Thompson (7-3, 4 KOs) in the 3rd round. Parker knocked Thompson down with a right hand to the head while he was trapped in the corner. After he got up, Parker flattened him with another huge head shot. The fight was halted at 2:41 of the round.
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