By Erik Schmidt: WIBF and WBA Women’s International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion super middleweight Natascha Ragosina (18-0, 11 KOs) will fight a rematch with Conjestina Achieng (14-5-3, 7 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round bout on Friday night at the Maritim Hotel, Magdeburg, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. The two fought four months ago with the champion Ragosina winning a controversial 10-round decision over Achieng by the scores of 97-93, 96-94 and 97-93.
Ragosina, 32, who originally came from Kazakhstan and now resides in Germany, was shockingly loudly booed by the German fans after her fight with Achieng, many of whom felt that Ragosina shouldn’t have been awarded the decision.
Ragosina, looked awful throughout, bouncing constantly, throwing weak jabs that came up short about a foot in front of Achieng and moving constantly around the ring in an effort to avoid confrontations with Achieng. Ragosnina’s jabs seemed more likes pushes given the lack of speed and power on them, and it made it seem as if she was afraid of her.
Ragosina looked awkward and terribly uncoordinated in the first round, clumsily moving around the ring as if she had no real objective in mind, and throwing jabs at the air. I can’t remember seeing one of her jabs connect in the round, because frankly it seemed as if that wasn’t her purpose.
She fighting in this manner in rounds two through seven, staying on the outside and bouncing as if she were on a trampoline, throwing jabs at the air rather than at Achieng and looking petrified. It was rather strange, because Achieng didn’t seem to have much power to speak of and was more of a volume puncher than a knockout threat, yet Ragosina treated her like a one-punch knockout artist.
Tiring of Ragosnina’s act, Achieng went after her hard in these rounds, walking through Ragosina’s jabs and delivering powerful punches to her head and body.
When Achieng trapped Ragosina up against the ropes, Ragosina leaned way back, almost to the point where she was in danger of falling over the top rope and out of the ring. From the looks of it, Ragosina was acting as if her head was made out of china and she was afraid that it might break of Achieng landed a single punch to her head.
During these rounds, Ragosina came close to winning none of them, getting hit with big shots and not answering back with anything aside from a weak jab here and there. The 7th round saw Achieng hit Ragosina with a number of hard punches to the head and body, easily doing enough to win the round in the opening seconds.
Ragosina did absolutely nothing in the round and was dominated from start to finish. In rounds eight through ten, Ragosina continued to get battered Achieng, getting backed to the ropes and being forced to eat a lot of right hands to the head and body. Ragosina continued leaning back against the ropes, trying to hide her head like a big Ostridge.
Ragosina was able to land a few meaningless shots in the 9th and 10th, but not nearly enough to win the rounds.
All total, I gave Ragosina maybe one or two rounds, but nothing more than that in the fight, which is why is was so surprising that Ragosina was given the decision. Hopefully, tomorrow night the judges’ are a little more alert to what’s actually happening in the ring and don’t create another controversy by giving Ragosina a decision that she probably doesn’t deserve.
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