Turning Stone Casino and Resort, Verona, New York, April 18
TV: HBO
By Peter Lim
TV: HBO
By Peter Lim
How unfortunate that both these fighters are almost unknown
to mainstream sports fans as this A+ matchup is a hardcore boxing aficionado's
dream fight with the thrill potential that exceeds every
super-showdown out there, Mayweather-Pacquiao included. Kudos to both
guys for agreeing to face each other in lieu of the safer options
available to them. The fight has Hagler-Hearns written all over it.
Like Hagler, Provodnikov is a vicious seek-and-destroy
puncher, but blow for blow, he falls a notch or two below the one-punch sledgehammer power that Mathysse packs, much
like Hearns did. Mathysse, having tasted the canvass three times in his last three fights, appears to have the weaker chin of the two, but unlike the
ultra-frail Hearns, he was able to regroup every time he hit the deck.
Both fighters' defenses are far from impenetrable so the determining
factor here boils down to whether Provodnikov's chin is as
torpedo-proof as Hagler's was, and I'm guessing that it is. The Russian buzzsaw
will absorb Mathysse's best bombs with aplomb, violently tear into
the Argentine, rip him to shreds and score a TKO inside of six action-packed rounds.
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