Belarussian Alexander Ustinov(29-1-0(21 KO) won unimpressive victory against boxing legend from New Zealand David Tua by Unanimous decision. Judges scored 108-120, 110-119,110-119 for Ustinov. He also captures vacant WBA Pan African heavyweight title.This was very inactive fight, with Ustinov always staying in super defensive stance and jumping like a big rabbit from Tua every time he tried to come closer. In fact Ustinov changed his style on this fight. He dropped a lot of weight and came in a very good shape. I mean he was much bigger than Tua, but looked much lighter then before. Tua also was in perfect shape just his boxing plan for this fight was terrible. Maybe he had a good plan for a slow and heavy Ustinov, but Ustinov came completely different fighter then in his fight against Pulev, so the plan didn't succeed.
I mean from the first minute Tua
instead of going forward decided to stay outside and was making 2-3
furies in every round. He was looking for that one punch knockout.
Ustinov from the beginning moved forward and used his jab and tried to
use a big right hand , but Tua has a better defense and he was able to
avoid almost all of those slow left hands. Tua caught Ustinov few times
with his left hook, and I believe Ustinov was a little afraid of that
power so from round 4 he changed tactics and started to fight as
Wladimir Klitchko. He was moving backwards and just throwing his jab and
right hand from time to time, every time Tua tried to come closer
Ustinov just jumped backwards as far as he can.
Tua was just too little to connect his
left hook to the head and he missed those big punches almost every
time. From round 4 Tua started to go to the body but he was connecting 2
punches per round so he was outboxed by much bigger Ustinov who was
able to connect more jabs and some power punches in every round...
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