Boxing Results: Relentless Iglesias Stops Shishkin, Puts Canelo On Notice

IBO tremendous middleweight champion Osleys Iglesias (14-0, 13 KOs) retained his unbeaten file, scoring an eighth-round technical knockout of Vladimir Shishikin (16-2, 10 KOs) in an IBF 168-lb title eliminator on Thursday night time on the Montreal On line casino in Montreal, Canada.

Iglesias’s Unrelenting Barrage

Iglesias was getting outboxed by the defense-minded Shishkin by seven rounds. Within the eighth, the Cuban Iglesias modified techniques, unloading on Shishikin with a barrage of punches after hurting him with a left. Shishkin tried his greatest to outlive by shifting, clinching, and protecting up.

With nothing being thrown again by Shishikin, the referee, Michael Griffin, had no selection however to step in and halt the competition. It was transfer as a result of Iglesias was unloading on Shishikin at will with punches, and he was too damage to fireplace again something in his personal protection.

If the referee had allowed it to proceed, Osleys absolutely would have laid out Shishkin. He noticed the situation that Vladimir was in, and he couldn’t take up one other 20 consecutive headshots.

Shishikin had completed properly by many of the contest, utilizing his punch and retreat methodology to keep away from getting chewed up by Iglesias’ highly effective proper hook, uppercut, and left-hand photographs. It wasn’t fairly to look at the fixed retreating type of Shishikin, however it was efficient.

Osley’s greatest rounds earlier than the eighth have been the third and fifth during which he landed some brutal proper hooks that snapped Shishkin’s head again arduous. He took them properly, however you can inform that it was solely a matter of time earlier than Iglesias finally knocked him out.

Unconventional Energy of Osleys

Olseys’ photographs have been weird-looking. The Cuban Iglesias appeared awkward with the best way he threw photographs and infrequently missed badly. He seemed gangly, however when the punches landed, you can hear the sound and decide from Shishikin’s response that he wasn’t having fun with the expertise of being within the ring with him.

It was a distinct expertise from what Shikshikin went by in his earlier combat in opposition to William Scull, who didn’t combat aggressively, and his punch join was low. Osleys, 27, was on the assault all night time, forcing Shishkin to maneuver to outlive.

A New Risk to Canelo

With the victory, Iglesias, 27, is now the IBF obligatory challenger for the title Canelo Alvarez holds. The way in which Osleys seemed tonight, I don’t consider the Canelo vs. Terence Crawford winner will comply with combat him. He hits too arduous, and he has energy in each palms. In my view, I doubt that Canelo or Crawford would take the prospect of preventing Iglesias. He might have to attend till the IBF title is stripped or vacated.

The way in which Iglesias loops his photographs makes it arduous to identify them till it’s too late. He seems to be like a much bigger model of the lanky featherweight champion, Rafael Espinoza.