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I will be doing a round by round of Valuev vs Beck later tonight. I will do some updates of Sylvester vs Asikained that starts soon, but it clashes with the Metallica concert on MTV so I wont promise a good RbR for that fight.

The undercard results
Alexander Povetkin TKO4 Livin Castillo
Christophe Canclaux TKO4 Sylvain Touzet
Mario Huck UD10 Nuri Seferi
Oktay Urkal UD8 Andrei Rimer
Pawel Kolodziej KO1 Nabil Haciani

Cheers

I'm no Russell Grant, but after Peter Crouch scored a hatrick this afternoon I don't think this is going to be a good day for Jamaicans taking on freakish giants

Sylvester vs Asikainen starting soon (Concert not started yet)

Ringannouncer: Michael Buffer

Asikainen: 17-0 13ko
Sylvester: 21-1 9ko

Referee: Luigi Muratore | Judge: Fabian Guggenheim | Judge: Manuel Oliver Palomo | Judge: Roger Tilleman

Round 1

The reigning EBU champ Sylvester have the middle of the ring against the reigning EU champ Asikainen.

Sylvester last boxed on april 22nd while Asikainen boxed may 5th.

Both boxers have the orthodox stance.

Its a typical first round.

Very close 10-9 Sylvester

The arena is sold out, around 14000 in place.

Round 2

A bit more action this round so far.

Both using lots of straight punches.

Asikainen almost catches Sylvester with a left hook.

Asikainen tries to go deep

Asikainen wins the round

19-19

Concert still not started yet.

Round 3

Asikainen in the offense, Sylvester has respect for his power.

Asikainen lands a good right.

Asikainen still controlling the round.

Sylvester lands a good left hook to the chin.

Asikainen won the first 2 minutes of the round clearly while Sylvester wom the last mon, might be enough to win the round on some of the cards.

I give it to Asikainen

29-28 Asikainen

Round 4

Good action in the fight so far.

Both lands some good powershots

Sylvester wins the round

38-38

Thanks for a great as always update Freiheit! :P

Round 5

Im taping the concert, so Ill score the whole fight.

Both using lots of powershots now.

Asikainen tries to land on the inside, but Sylvester blocks it.

Close round, Sylvester just nicks it on my card due to better defense

48-47 Sylvester

Round 6

Seems like Sylvester it starting o control the fight a bit more.

They are starting to clinch more, I guess they are just warming the audience up for the Valuev fight.

Asikainen missing a lot more, cant seem to find the right range.

Round to Sylvester

58-56 Sylvester

Amin Asikainen's nick is of course "Idi" (could it be anything else?)

Round 7

Asikainen gets warned for rabbit punching.

Sylvester got a huge cut above his left eye (not sure how it was caused)

Asikainen really going after the cut

Round Asikainen

67-66 Sylvester

Its ruled an accidental headbutt (and pictures shows that is correct)

Round 8

Sylvester's trainer Hartmut Schröder yells at him that he needs to win on points and not KO

Asikianen really offenssive.

Sylvester in huge trouble.

Asikainen losses his mouthpiece, buys Sylvester a lot of time

Sylvester in the offense now, hurting Asikainen.

Sylvester down from bodypunch, doesnt get up in time

Winner Asikainen KO8

Great round-by-round; surprising result.

it was a left hook to the head which put him down and the ref stopped him on his feet.

IMo that count was very fast.

Sylvester was up at 5. It ruled a TKO8 2:48 into the round.

It's Finland's first European champ in like 40 years.

boxerrob2005 wrote:it was a left hook to the head which put him down and the ref stopped him on his feet.

You are correct, danish commentator called it a bodypunch, I throught it was to the head, but I wasnt sure so I wrote bodypunch.

Freiheit wrote:IMo that count was very fast.

Sylvester was up at 5. It ruled a TKO8 2:48 into the round.

It's Finland's first European champ in like 40 years.

Asikainen is actually the first ever finnish european champ.

Main event about to start.

Referee: Luis Pabón | Judge: Masakazu Uchida | Judge: Stanley Christodoulou | Judge: Guillermo Pérez Pineda

Round 1

I bet if this fight goes the distance lots of people will says its a robbery if Valuev wins

I also think it will be a boring fight.

Beck immidiatly tries to go for the body of Valuev.

2 clinches after 30 secs.

Valuev fights with his left hand almost straight .

Beck tries but lands in the parade.

Valuev lands some good rights.

Beck is open of overhand rights, Valuev have already landed some.

Clear round for Valuev (Ill score them clear, close ect)

10-9 Valuev

i think valuev will ko him early because that "what the fornicate" has no chin.

Round 2

Valuev lands "a lot" of punches while Beck is trying to land.

Valuev also landing the jab now.

Valuev lands alot of punches on thecounter

Beck down, up with 26 sec to go

Saved by the bell

The ref helps beck to his corner.

10-8 Valuev

20-17

Carl King and Sauerland arguing. King says "You wanna dance??"

Valuev seems to do ok with his jab and has a clubbing right that he can drop down, but he seems to do it with the inside of the glove. is that legal?

Round 3

Valuev looks a lot better than vs Ruiz, the work with Ulli Wegner have helped alot.

Beck down again froma monster uppercut.

Ref lets fight continue, stops it after 5 more secs

Winner on TKO3 Nikolai Valuev

Valuev was much faster and aggressive than I was expecting

Thanks for your efforts.

I live in the US and had no live feed BUT did have
a wager on Valuev by TKO which I'm happt to CA$H.

Thanks again.