Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-21, nice and tough fight between Ievgen Khytrov and Paul Mendez: it gets three stars.The 2011 world amateur boxing champion Ievgen Khytrov entered this fight with a perfect record of 13-0-0 (11 KOs=85%) and he is ranked as the No.15 middleweight in the world. He has already fought in 2016 beating Kenneth McNeil.
His opponent, Paul Mendez, has an official boxing record of 19-2-2 (9 knockouts) and he entered as the No.35 in the same weight class. He suffered his last loss when he faced James Parison in 2011 (via split decision), since then he has collected 13 victories, two draws and one no-contest. Khytrov vs Mendez is on the undercard of Sergiy Derevyanchenko vs Sam Soliman. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2016-07-21
Where: Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA
Division: middleweight (160 lbs, 72.6 kg)
Khytrov’s next fight: Ievgen Khytrov vs Immanuwel Aleem
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Throw these East Euro’s to the top of the MW pile.
Mendez took too much punishment, his corner and ref got it wrong.
When a fighters too tough for his own good he deserves protection.
Agree completely. This one was over rounds earlier, and only punishment for the absorbent journeyman let it drag on. Hard to say much about Khytrov against such competition, but he’s promising — puts together combos, moves Loma-like to the side, and keeps coming.