Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-04-16, nice and tough fight between Krzysztof Glowacki and Steve Cunningham: it gets three stars.The undefeated Wbo champion Krzysztof Glowacki entered this fight with a perfect record of 25-0-0 (16 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.2 cruiserweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Denis Lebedev). He fought twice in 2015 beating Nuri Seferi (=Glowacki vs Seferi) and Marco Huck (=Huck vs Glowacki).
His opponent, the former Ibf Cw champion Steve Cunningham, has a boxing record of 28-7-1 (13 knockouts) and he entered as the No.12 heavyweight but his last victory occurred in 2014 when he defeated Natu Visinia (=Cunningham vs Visinia). After this bout he lost to Vyacheslav Glazkov (=Glazkov vs Cunningham) and he drew with Antonio Tarver (=Tarver vs Cunningham). Glowacki vs Cunningham is valid for the WBO World cruiserweight title (Glowacki’s first defense); undercard of Errol Spence Jr vs Chris Algieri. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-04-16
Where: Barclays Center, New York, USA
Division: cruiserweight (200 lbs, 90.7 kg)
Title: WBO World cruiserweight title
Glowacki’s previous fight: Marco Huck vs Krzysztof Glowacki
Cunningham’s previous fight: Antonio Tarver vs Steve Cunningham
Glowacki’s next fight: Krzysztof Glowacki vs Oleksandr Usyk
Cunningham’s next fight: Steve Cunningham vs Felipe Romero
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Hell of a battle. Congratulations to Glowacki whose counters were fatal.
I liked it too, how about Cunningham shoulders??? Pretty crazy arms too, but Glowacki proved the better fighter can be the smaller one. He scored a knockdown with an elbow though ;)
Haha, I noticed that too, Matt. Glowacki had to dig into his bag of tricks for the win. Crafty man, good fighter…dirty when he has to be. Cunningham should retire, but he can hold his head high.
Yes. Cunningham looked 215 pounds, which he probably was lol
Enjoyed the fight, apart from the transmission breaks, Cunnningham is showing that his previous exposure has not been rectified, and he paid the price. I am inclined to think that the longer he fights the worse his record is going to become. Glowacki is affectively a one armed fighter as he really only uses his left, had he been competent at using both hand the Cunningham woukd have been out of there in the first round.
Great fight! Cunningham looks like a bodybuilder, not very natural. Anyway, Glowacki made a great show out of it. Great first defense. BTW one of the knockdown was an elbow to the face, it wasn’t easy to see live, but on the replay it was quite evident.