Kessler destroys Perdomo, Frenkel stops Hubert – Boxing Results

By Boxing News - 09/12/2009 - Comments

kessler5434245By Erik Schmidt: In a night of huge mismatches in Denmark, World Boxing Association super middleweight championship Mikkel Kessler (42-1, 32 KO’s) easily stopped Gusmyr Perdomo (16-3, 10 KO’s) in the 4th round at the MCH Messecenter Herning, in Herning, Denmark. Kessler dominated the slower Perdomo with jabs in the first three rounds, hitting him repeatedly with piston-like jabs over and over again to the head while Perdomo tried to get near Kessler. In the 3rd round, Kessler knocked the badly outclassed Perdomo down with a chopping right hand to the back of the head.

The one-sided beating continued into the 4th where it was finally stopped after Kessler hurt Perdomo with a jab followed by a big right to the jaw that sent Perdomo staggering backwards to the ropes. Kessler followed him and missed four out of five punches he threw at him, but finally succeeded in hitting him with a big right hand. The referee then stepped in and halted the bout with Perdomo still standing. As soon as the fight was stopped, Perdomo staggered and collapsed. The referee caught him while he was falling and help him up and got him back to his feet. Perdomo shook his head back and forth as if he didn’t know what had hit him.

Hopefully, the WBA does a better job next time of ranking their fighters because they seemed to have made a mistake in ranking Perdomo at the number contender in the division given that he had been beaten not too long ago by one of Kessler’s victim’s Dimitri Sartison.

Kessler looked rusty and more than a little uncomfortable against the southpaw Perdomo in the opening round and was hit by a number of right hooks to the head and body by Perdomo. On one occasion, Perdomo doubled a right hook first to the head and then to the body. Kessler’s timing and ability to get out of the way of shots looked bad. Compared to his form in the past, Kessler was much more hittable. He came back and landed a few good right hands but mostly the round belonged to Perdomo due to his his pressure and right hooks.

In the 2nd round, Kessler began to throw his jab more and caught Perdomo often with big jarring jabs that stopped him in his tracks as he pressed forward. With Kessler’s jab hitting Perdomo in the face often in the round, Perdomo had less chances to attack with his right hooks like he did in the opening round. Still, Perdomo was able to catch Kessler with a few hard right hands to the head and hooks to the body.

Perdermo landed a right to the head after the bell sounded ending the round. Kessler landed some good combinations in the round and one big right hand that caught Perdomo as he was moving forward. One of Kessler’s powerful jabs knocked Perdomo off balance sending him backwards a couple of feet. Late in the round, Perdomo landed a big looping right hand that caught Kessler and snapped his head back violently. Kessler was still getting hit more than I had seen him hit in previous bouts other than his fight against Joe Calzaghe.

In the 3rd round, the fight was fairly close in the first minute of action with both Kessler and Perdomo missing shots. While in a clinch, Perdomo nailed Kessler with a sneaky right uppercut that bloodied his nose. Kessler then went after Perdomo to pay him back and hit him with three consecutive hard right hands to the head. Perdomo fired back three good left hands of his own and jabbed Kessler well from the outside.

Seconds later, Perdomo landed a left hand low. The referee stopped the action and gave Perdomo a warning to keep his punches up. As soon as the action resumed, Kessler went after Perdomo and threw a storm of punches with many of them missing their mark.

After Kessler finally stopped punching, Perdoma attempted to hit him with a long left hand but missed. While Perdomo was backing away with his head still down low, Kessler landed a chopping right hand to the back of Perdomo’s head, sending him down on the canvas.

Perdomo wasn’t hurt in the least but rather was off balance when he was hit by Kessler as he was backing away after missing a left hand at the time that Kessler landed a punch to the back of his head. Perdomo got to his feet and finished the round with a hard jab to the face of Kessler.

Undefeated cruiserweight contender Alexander Frenkel (19-0, 15 KOs) defeated a badly over-matched Laszlo Hubert (22-5, 13 KOs) in the 3rd round of a scheduled eight round bout. Frenkel, 24, ended matters with a powerful right-left combination to the head in the 3rd round that sent Hubert down on the canvas badly hurt. Hubert stayed down for quite some time after the knockdown.

The 1st and 2nd rounds saw Frenkel stalk Hubert around the ring, loading up with one shot a time and not putting his punches together. This has been the young Frenkel’s problems in his past fights, as he tends to load up to much with his shots looking for knockouts and ends up throwing few punches in the fight.

Frenkel hasn’t been helped by his management who have been putting him in soft since he turned pro three years ago. It was hoped that by now that Frenkel would be at least fighting good B level opponents but he’s still being served up low grade B class fighters.

Hopefully, his management wakes up in the future before he finds himself in a position to challenge for a title. Frenkel is ranked #13 in the World Boxing Council, and should be in position to challenge for a title in a year or so.

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WBA/WBC female welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus (13-0, 2 KOs) defeated Lucia Morelli (13-1, 6 KO’s) by a 10-round unanimous decision, handing the Italian her first loss of her career by the judges’ scores of 99-91, 98-92 and 97-93. Braekhus, a weak puncher, used her jab and quick combinations to control the 10 round. There were no knockdowns and neither fighter was hurt. It was a case of Braekhus having too much speed and technical skills for Morelli to handle.



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