Who won Kuzmin vs Dawejko?
Sergey Kuzmin beat Joey Dawejko by majority decision in their 10 round contest on Saturday 9th March 2019 at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in New York.
The scorecards were announced as 96-94 in favor of winner Sergey Kuzmin.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 10 rounds in the Heavyweight division, which meant there was no weight limit.
This fight appeared on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol beating Joe Smith Jr for the WBA World Light Heavyweight championship. Also, on the undercard Callum Johnson beat Sean Monaghan and Maurice Hooker defeated Mikkel LesPierre for the WBO World Junior Welterweight title.
Kuzmin vs Dawejko stats
Back in March 2019, Sergey Kuzmin stepped into the ring with an undefeated record of 14 wins, zero loses and 0 draws, 11 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.
Joey Dawejko made his way to the ring with a record of 19 wins, 6 loses and 4 draws, with 11 of those wins by knock out.
The stats suggested Kuzmin had a large advantage in power over Dawejko, boosting at 79% knock out percentage over Dawejko's 58%.
Sergey Kuzmin was the older man by 3 years, at 31 years old.
Kuzmin had a height advantage of 6 inches over Dawejko. That also extended to a 6-inch reach advantage.
Both Sergey Kuzmin & Joey Dawejko fought out of an orthodox stance.
Kuzmin was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 15 less fights, and made his debut in 2014, 5 year and 2 months later than Dawejko, whose first professional fight was in 2009. He had fought 71 less professional rounds, 95 to Dawejko's 166.
Sergey Kuzmin went into the fight ranked number 7 by the WBA, 15 by the WBC and 11 by the IBF at heavyweight.
Kuzmin vs Dawejko form
Sergey Kuzmin had stopped all of his last 5 opponents.
In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had beat David Price on 22nd September 2018 by technical knockout in the 4th round at Wembley Stadium, London, United Kingdom.
Previous to that, he had beat Jeremiah Karpency on 21st April 2018 by knockout in the 6th round at Kings Theatre, New York, United States.
Going into that contest, he had beat Amir Mansour on 27th November 2017 by knockout at Luzhniki, Moscow, Russia.
Before that, he had won against Malcolm Tann on 23rd June 2017 by knockout in the 4th round at DoubleTree Hotel, California, United States.
He had beat Keenan Hickmon on 14th April 2017 by technical knockout in the 3rd round at MGM National Harbor, Maryland.
Activity check
Kuzmin's last 5 fights had come over a period of 1 year, 10 months and 23 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 4 months and 18 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 29 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 5.8 rounds on average.
What time did Kuzmin vs Dawejko start?
The fighters were expected to ringwalk at around 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM PST at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, New York, United States, which was around 1:00 AM GMT in the UK.
What were the odds on Kuzmin vs Dawejko?
Sergey Kuzmin was a 3/100 (-3300) favourite going into the contest, while Joey Dawejko made his way into the ring at 10/1 (+1000) with oddsmakers.
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