Serhii Bohachuk (25-2, 24 KOs) regarded highly effective dispatching Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) in a sixth-round TKO of their WBC junior middleweight title eliminator final Saturday evening in Riyadh.
Bohachuk’s Energy Show
The combat was stopped after the sixth spherical by referee Hector Afu after Davis’ nook selected to have the competition halted. With the laborious photographs Bohachuk had hit him with in rounds 5 and sixth, Davis wouldn’t have made it by means of the seventh with out being knocked out. The official time of the stoppage was at 3:00 of spherical six.
By way of 4 rounds, the combat was typically aggressive, with Ishmael having temporary moments however principally getting royally hammered by Bohachuk. Within the fifth and sixth, it was one-sided with the Ukrainian Bohachuk teeing off on Davis at medium and shut vary.
Bohachuk vs. Davis Punch Stats
– Ishmael Davis: 65 of 223 punches for 29.1%
– Serhii Bohachuk: 135 of 414 for 32.6%
Most of Bohachuk’s photographs landed within the combat have been energy punches, which explains why he shortly wore down Davis to get his sixth-round stoppage. Bohachuk linked on 108 energy punches and 27 jabs of the 414 punches he threw within the combat. He had wonderful accuracy on his energy punches, touchdown 41.1% of them. That’s a excessive quantity for a fighter with Bohachuk’s type of energy.
Davis Outmatched
Surprisingly, Davis thought he might combat Serhii on the within. What a mistake. The quick punches from Bohhachuk resembled the photographs that mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev throws. They don’t appear like they’re highly effective, however they do harm. It was fascinating that Davis didn’t attempt to adapt by shifting away, nevertheless it in all probability wouldn’t have mattered.
Davis’ promoter, Eddie Hearn, regarded gloomy within the crowd after watching him get dropped by a left hook from Bohachuk in spherical two. Ishmael, 29, had fought properly in spherical one, touchdown a looping proper hand that momentarily backed the previous WBC interim 154-lb champion Bohachuk off.
Davis nailed Bohachuk with a pleasant proper hand within the fourth spherical, however that wasn’t sufficient to again him off. Serhii stored pressuring him, hitting him with laborious punches and never letting him get a lot of a breather in between assaults.
Davis’ motion wasn’t practically sufficient to stop Bohachuk from slicing off the ring and persevering with to bludgeon him with chopping GGG-esque energy photographs. The punches weren’t thrown with a whole lot of pace, however man, they have been sporting Ishmael down.
Bohachuk is now the WBC necessary for 154-lb champion Sebastian ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora. He’s not going to be getting a title shot any time quickly, sadly. Fundora shall be defending towards Errol Spence subsequent, and he might select to combat another person after that in a cash combat, like Terence Crawford.
An fascinating combat that I wish to see is Bohachuk towards Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. Nevertheless, given Boots’ choice to remain at welterweight to try to unify the division, he in all probability would reject a harmful combat towards Bohachuk, regardless of how a lot cash Turki Alalshikh supplied him. It could be enjoyable to see how Ennis would do buying and selling energy photographs towards Bohachuk.
With Jaron’s porous protection, Bohachuk would have a area day towards him, touchdown at will and having a neater time than he did towards Davis. Boots is promoted by Hearn. He would in all probability resist the thought of Ennis combating Bohachuk, realizing that it wouldn’t finish properly for him.
