Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-11-04, nice back and forth fight with some tough exchanges: Dmitry Kudryashov vs Olanrewaju Durodola is close to get four stars.The undefeated Dmitry Kudryashov entered this fight with a perfect record of 18-0-0 (18 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.10 cruiserweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Grigory Drozd). He has already fought twice in 2015 winning over Francisco Palacios (=Kudryashov vs Palacios) and Vikapita Meroro (=Kudryashov vs Meroro).
His opponent, Olanrewaju Durodola, has a record of 21-2-0 (19 KOs=90%) and he entered as the No.34 in the same weight class. He lost to Thabiso Mchunu in 2014 (=Mchunu vs Durodola) but then he has won four consecutive bouts. Kudryashov vs Durodola is valid for the vacant WBC Silver cruiserweight title; undercard of Alexander Povetkin vs Mariusz Wach. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-11-04
Where: Basket-Hall Arena, Kazan, Russia
Division: cruiserweight (200 lbs, 90.7 kg)
Title: vacant WBC Silver cruiserweight title
Kudryashov’s previous fight: Dmitry Kudryashov vs Vikapita Meroro
Durodola’s next fight: Mairis Briedis vs Olanrewaju Durodola
Their second fight fight: Dmitry Kudryashov vs Olanrewaju Durodola 2
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Back and forth fight again, very entertaining :) These early KOs caused the Russian hosts to stretch time for a veryyyy long time.
i am one of durodla sparring partners and i knew he had punches chance. he is fit strong hits hard but one dimensional. this was the only way he could win and he did it perfectly. also has a great chin. so kudryashnov used to people falling over when he touches them but lane took his best shot watch in the first round it discouraged kudryashov. the way i spar are is i box him and i have good success because he loves going toe to toe he is extremely tough. the way mchunu beat him is the blue print.. kudryashnov is very good he will be back. he just needs to know at the higher level not everybody can be knocked out so easily. he was up against a strong determined lion who was not afraid and needed this win badly to change his life.
Lagos, please extend my congratulations to Duradola since he demonstrated he can punch, he has an iron chin and mainly he is a very good technical boxer too. Hopefully, you guys will help him to strive in boxing as he deserves.
My pleasure . I definitely will when he gets back .
Really enjoyed wathcing this as I know how hard he trained . He deserves it . Kudryashnov made bad decision not jump on him to Finish in the first round when he had him hurt he was too arrogant the easy he was walking him down when duro was hit instead of getting the job done completely .
Duro reviver ed fantastically well by round 2 and it was game over
Definitely it was a pleasure to see him winning.
I don’t like those boxers that take the things for granted and this was the mistake he did in the first round by no forcing the situation and taking Duradola down for good. I’m happy that he was wrong.
To be two power puncher boxers both are technically sound too. Incredible recovery from Duradola in the first round, Dmitry could not believe he was able to continuing fighting. However, Duradola from the first round was throwing punches and combinations very fast with a final and successful result. Dmitry was hit very hard with several head punches and the referee action prevent him of further damage. A real upset that killed such a good record.
Technically sound?
Kudryashov definitely wasn’t and isn’t. Never seen either fight but the man with the better skills (Durodola)won.
Did anybody notice the poor sportsmanship and what also looked like institutional racism when they refused to actually put the belt around his waist. Russia is one sh*tty sh*tty country.