Sillakh is good but hardly great

Image: Sillakh is good but hardly greatBy Jim Dower: I’ve seen at least a dozen of the fights of unbeaten light heavyweight contender Ismayl Sillakh (17-0, 14 KO’) and I can see he’s a good fighter but he’s not in the class of someone like Chad Dawson and I doubt that he’ll ever get that good. But the 26-year-old Sillakh, who comes from Ukraine and now fights out of Simi Valley, California, will do well because he’s fighting in the talent weak light heavyweight division.

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