10.2.2008.
As was
pretty much expected, Kim Poulsen could not stop the iron-chinned
Lubos Priehradnik inside the scheduled six rounds, but during the
cause of the fight, the 21-year-old Dane displayed some very fluent and
impressive technical boxing, underlining the development he is
undergoing in the gym with trainer Brian Mathiasen. Priehradnik, who has
gone the distance with some of the best in Europe, was expected to come
out aggressive and with some kind of ambition, but Poulsen simply never
let him in the fight, and peppered his adversary with quick left jabs,
right counters and left-right hook-combinations that bewildered the
Slovak from the first bell.
Priehradnik managed to tie up Poulsen on a few occasions, but the Danish
prospect didn’t let it bother him too much, took his time to breath and
went about his job by connecting with precise shots from all angles, and
even seemed to hurt his foe a few times. The only thing missing in a
near-flawless performance was Poulsen getting rid of Priehradnik inside
the distance, but manager Risum explains that this was not something
that was in the plans in the first place:
“We
knew that stopping Priehradnik would be a very, very hard task, because
he has gone the distance, and pushed much harder punchers than Kim all
the way. One could argue that Priehradnik didn’t offer much in return,
but I think that this is only to Kim’s credit. An opponent can only do
what you allow him to do, and Kim didn’t allow Priehradnik anything at
all. We wanted to see Kim go six three-minute rounds at a nice pace,
because he will have learnt a lot from that, and we got what we wanted,
and we are all happy. This was another step in Kim’s education as a
professional boxer, and the knockouts will come later, I am sure. He is
starting to punch harder now, so why shouldn’t they?”
Poulsen
took his record to 7-1 (1), with the only blemish being a controversial
and close decision against tough Frenchman Tony Jourda in London. Risum
Boxing has an agreement with Larsen Boxing for Poulsen to appear on a
show in Esbjerg on March 23, so it won’t be long before the gym calls
again.
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