Blanco vs Jikam

Who won Blanco vs Jikam?

Hassan N’Dam beat Alfonso Blanco by knockout in the 1st round on Saturday 17th December 2016 at Stade de l’Est in Saint-Denis.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 12 rounds in the Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 160 pounds (11.4 stone or 72.6 KG).

This contest was for the vacant WBA middleweight championship of the world.

Blanco vs Jikam stats

Back in December 2016, Alfonso Blanco stepped into the ring with an undefeated record of 12 wins, zero loses and 0  draws, 5 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Hassan N’Dam made his way to the ring with a record of 34 wins, 2 loses and 0 draws, with 20 of those wins by knock out.

The stats suggested N'Dam had advantage in power over Blanco, with a 59% knock out percentage over Blanco's 42%.

Alfonso Blanco was the younger man by 2 years, at 31 years old.

Blanco had a height advantage of 1 inch over N'Dam.

Both Alfonso Blanco & Hassan N’Dam fought out of an orthodox stance.

Blanco was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 24 less fights, and made his debut in 2010, 5 year and 9 months later than N'Dam, whose first professional fight was in 2004. He had fought 234 less professional rounds, 77 to N'Dam's 311.

Alfonso Blanco went into the fight ranked number 1 by the WBA at middleweight.

Hassan N’Dam was ranked number 9 by the WBA and 6 by the WBO in the 160lb division.

Blanco vs Jikam form

N'Dam had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 2 of them, going the distance twice.

In his last fight before this contest, he had beat Tomasz Gargula on 30th July 2016 by technical knockout in the 7th round at La Palestre, Le Cannet, France.

Previous to that, he had beat Robert Swierzbinski on 27th May 2016 by technical knockout in the 2nd round at Cirque d'Hiver, Paris.

Going into that contest, he had won against Patrick Mendy on 12th March 2016 by unanimous decision in their 8 round contest at Palais des sports Marcel Cerdan, Levallois-Perret.

Before that, he had been beaten by David Lemieux on 20th June 2015 by unanimous decision in their IBF World Middleweight championship fight at Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada.

He had beat Curtis Stevens on 1st October 2014 by unanimous decision in their 12 round contest at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, United States.

Activity check

N'Dam's last 5 fights had come over a period of 2 years, 2 months and 16 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 5 months and 10 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 41 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 8.2 rounds on average.

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