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 battle was stopped after the sixth spherical by referee Hector Afu after Davis’ nook selected to have the competition halted. With the onerous photographs Bohachuk had hit him with in rounds 5 and sixth, Davis wouldn’t have made it by way 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 battle was typically aggressive, with Ishmael having temporary moments however largely 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 battle 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 battle. He had glorious accuracy on his energy punches, touchdown 41.1% of them. That’s a excessive quantity for a fighter with Bohachuk’s form of energy.
Davis Outmatched
Surprisingly, Davis thought he might battle 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 most likely 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 effectively 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 saved pressuring him, hitting him with onerous punches and never letting him get a lot of a breather in between assaults.
Davis’ motion wasn’t almost sufficient to stop Bohachuk from reducing off the ring and persevering with to bludgeon him with chopping GGG-esque energy photographs. The punches weren’t thrown with plenty of velocity, however man, they have been sporting Ishmael down.
Bohachuk is now the WBC obligatory 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 battle another person after that in a cash battle, like Terence Crawford.
An fascinating battle that I want to see is Bohachuk towards Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. Nonetheless, given Boots’ choice to remain at welterweight to attempt to unify the division, he most likely would reject a harmful battle towards Bohachuk, regardless of how a lot cash Turki Alalshikh supplied him. It might be enjoyable to see how Ennis would do buying and selling energy photographs towards Bohachuk.
With Jaron’s porous protection, Bohachuk would have a subject day towards him, touchdown at will and having a neater time than he did towards Davis. Boots is promoted by Hearn. He would most likely resist the thought of Ennis combating Bohachuk, figuring out that it wouldn’t finish effectively for him.
