By Erik Schmidt: Light heavyweight Jürgen Brähmer (34-2, 28 KOs) defeated in over-matched, under-experienced Aleksy Kuziemski (17-1, 4 KOs) in an 11th round stoppage tonight to win the interim World Boxing Organization light heavyweight title at the Syma Sport & Leisure Center in Budapest, Hungary.
The fight was never even close to being a competitive match, as Brähmer, 30 knocked Kuziemski down multiple times, four times in all in the fight, before the bout was stopped in the 11th round by referee Genaro Rodriguez at 0:39 mark.
Kuziemski, 32, had his moments in the early rounds, landing some solid shots. However, Kuziemski was never able to match the high punch output from Brähmer and found himself continuously getting drilled in the head. Brähmer had looked average in a 12 round losing effort to Argentinean Hugo Hernan Garay in November 2008.
However, against Kuziemski, Jurgen looked masterful and much improved over his disappointing performance against Garay. Brähmer dropped Kuziemski with a big left hand power shot in the 2nd round. Brähmer would later knock Kuziemski down in both the 3rd and 5th rounds with nice right hand shots.
By this time, the fight was turning into an embarrassing route for Brähmer. In rounds six through ten, Brähmer continued to easily control the fight with his powerful combinations and good movement. In the 11th, Brähmer ended matters by dropping Kuziemski with a left uppercut to the head that sent the Polish fighter down on the canvas. Kuziemski’s trainer then threw in the towel.
Kuziemski looked really good in the 1st round as he went right after Brahmer, hitting him with powerful right hands over and over again. Brahmer answered back with some fast left hands of his own, but the round belonged to Kuziemski, who finished the round with a nice right hand at the bell.
In the 2nd round, Kuziemski continued to looked really good, tagging Brahmer with big right hands, walking him down and forcing him to fight at close range. At the end of the round, Kuziemski blindly charged Brahmer and ran into a big right hand at the bell that knocked Kuziemski to the canvas. This was to be a pattern that would be repeated again and again in the fight, as Kuziemski seemed to have little patience for working his way in slowly like most fighters do.
Instead, he liked to charge forward like a big race horse. It may have worked well for Kuziemski against the mediocre competition that he had been spoon fed up until this fight by his handlers, but it clearly wasn’t going to work against a quality fighter like Brahmer.
Kuziemski fought well in the opening minute of the 3rd round, landing powerful right hands to the head of Brahmer. But, just as in the previous round, Kuziemski rushed Brahmer again and was put down by a straight left hand that caught Kuziemski in mid charge.
After this knockdown, I figured that Kuziemski would have learned his lesson and stopped fighting so amateurishly. I was sadly mistaken, because he continued to run at Brahmer in the following rounds, getting tagged often. Brahmer dominated the 4th round with movement and straight left hands. In the 5th round, Kuziemski once again charged Brahmer and got hit with a straight left hand and put down on the canvas for the third time in the fight.
It was almost comedy by this point because Brahmer wasn’t doing anything special, just taking advantage of Kuziemski when he would bum rush him like an amateur. In rounds six through ten, Brahmer fought well, moving constantly and firing off fast punches. His hand speed was much better than Kuziemski, although his power wasn’t. Kuziemski continued to rush him from time to time and would get hit with straight lefts almost every time he’d do this.
In the 11th round, Brahmer dropped Kuziemski with a right-left combination. Kuziemski’s trainer then threw in the towel at this point and the bout was mercifully stopped.
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