By Erik Schmidt: Unbeaten bantamweight contender Alexander Bakhtin (24-0, 11 KO’s) defeated a badly over-matched 21-year-old Nosir Ruzimatov (6-4, 3 KO’s) in a 9th round stoppage on Friday night in a fight that turned tragic at the Krylia Sovetov, in Moscow, Russia. Bakhtin pounded Ruzimatov at will for 9 rounds, rarely getting hit back in a terribly one-sided fight.
Following the 9th round, Ruzimatov sat down in his corner and appeared to lose consciousness. A stretcher was brought into the ring and Ruzimatov was quickly taken to a nearby hospital where it is reported he had surgery to remove blood clots on his brain. He is currently in a coma, according to Fight News.
Bakhtin, ranked #3 WBC, #4 WBC #6 IBF and #13 WBO, controlled rounds one and two with his jab and sharp rights. He moved slowly and constantly was putting pressure on Ruzimatov. Surprisingly, Ruzimatov was able to land some nice right hands from time to time through Bakhtin’s guard. However, Bakhtin never let up on his forward movement and had Ruzimatov moving in a constant retreat during these rounds. Bakhtin showed that he was vulnerable to getting hit with right hands during this time.
In the 3rd round, Ruzimatov started off well, hitting Bakhtin with some nice right hands in the first minute of the round. However, Bakhtin once again began landing right hands, jabs and left hooks with regularity and soon had Ruzimatov backing up again all over the ring.
In the 4th round, Bakhtin began to ramp up the pressure on Ruzimatov, tagging him with harder and harder shots to the head. At one point in the round, Ruzimatov fell into the ropes after getting hit hard. It looked like a knockdown. However, the referee ruled it a slip. In the 5th round, Ruzimatov, now no longer really fighting back, retreated laterally all throughout the round. It was just target practice by this point in the fight, and I wondered why Ruzimatov’s corner wasn’t thinking about stopping the fight. Ruzimatov appeared to be just trying to survive and not get knocked out. It was no longer really a fight.
In the 6th and 7th, Bakhtin patiently stalked Ruzimatov, landing nice right hands over and over again. The lateral movement from Ruzimatov continued without stop, but did little to prevent Bakhtin from landing hard right hands. Bakhtin proved to be an expert and cutting off the ring, and catching up to Ruzimatov to punish him with short punches to the head. Bakhtin’s hand speed wasn’t much to get excited about, but he showed that he could land short punches with good power.
In the 8th round, the action suddenly became even more one-sided, as Bakhtin tore into Ruzimatov with hard shots to the head with rights and left hooks. Ruzimatov seemed to be distressed, moving faster and faster as if he looked worried.
In the 9th round, Bakhtin landed hard uppercuts, catching Ruzimatov as he attempted to bend forward to duck shots. It was a brutally one-sided round with Ruzimatov taking awful punishment during every second of the round. After the round ended, Ruzimatov appeared to sag in his corner as he sat down. His trainer motioned for the ringside doctor to come assist him with the stricken Ruzimatov. A stretcher was quickly brought in and Ruzimatov was hurriedly taken out of the ring to a nearby hospital.
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Andrey Bogdanov UD 8 Ravil Mukhamadiarov
Vladimir Tereshkin RTD 4 Sherzod Mamajanov
Arman Ovsepyan KO 1 Denis Tupilenko
Bahyt Abdurahimov MD 6 Alexey Makhnenko
Andrey Klimov TKO 1 Bobir Normatov
Fedor Mushtranov NC 2 Hurshid Madaminov
Roman Andreev UD 6 Jahongir Rahimov
Sergey Ekimov TKO 4 Andrey Monakhov
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