November 5th, 1999
Fights promoted by Team Vester (http://www.vester-boxing.dk)
WBA Continental Super Welterweight
Michael Rask W12 Howard Clarke (118-109, 118-109,117-109)
It wasn't a pretty boxing match but it was enough to please the crowd
of an estimated 700 in Rask's home town. Clarke tried
to box from a distance as he did against Fernando Vargas but Michael
Rask continued to attack him and when he came in
Clarke held on as well as he good. Rask was the busier fighter throwing
an enormous amount of body shots. At the end of the
day the more active fighter won even if the scores were to high in
my opinion. I had it 116-112 for Rask. "I'm not the kind of
guy who goes in and seeks the knockout. I try to were them down and
that was the recipie tonight as well", said Rask after the
fight. The dane lifts his record to 13-0 and he can now lean back and
wait for confirmation that he will challenge WBC
champion Castillejo in Spain on December 17th. An answer will come
on monday. Should the fight happen it's difficult to see
why Rask has qualified himself for this match, but then again you could
say the same about the two challengers that Castillejo
has faced since he won the title from Keith Mullings.
Hasan Al D10 Sydney Msutu (96-95, 94-97, 95-95)
Msutu was a slow starter but former European amateur champion Hasan
Al also looked slow and very ordinary all the way
through this fight. Msutsu's confidence rose as he saw that Al had
nothing serious to offer and the south african finished strong
winning the last four rounds on my card. A draw was fair - but if a
winner should have been picked it wouldn't have been Al
whose record is now 21-0-2.
Jesper Kristiansen W8 Joseph Akhasamba
This was a cruiserweight rematch from earlier this year. The result
was the same. Kristiansen was able to rock Akhasamba
early but tired in the later rounds in which the african champion came
rushing towards his opponent. However Kristiansen won
the fight due to his longer reach and harder punches. Kristiansen's
only defeat came against Alexander Jacob and his record is
now 10-1 with 1 no contest.
Evans Ashira TKO4 Jason Hart
It was all about surviving and therefore huging from brit Jason Hart
and he might have Henry Akinwande as his rolemodel. In
the end he couldn't keep "The African Warrior" from hitting him but
didn't have any luck. Jason Hart decided not to come out
to round 4. Let's quickly forget about this match. Ashira took his
record to 14-0
Spend Abazi TKO4 David Kiilu
Kiilu tried to run and jab but featherweight Spend Abazi closed him
down and in the fourth and caught him in the corner. Kiilu
got up - but was on shaky legs and the fight was stopped. Abazi is
now 7-0.
Ingvardt Joergensen W4majority Ladislav Husarik (38-38, 40-36, 40-37)
And ugly slugfeast featuring two boxers with little skills. Husarik
is a notorious journeyman and despite his record of 5-23-1
coming into this match - he did well and perhaps could have deserved
a draw. He landed some serious bombs with his wild
swings. Instead it ended up with one of the usual hometown split decisions.
Joergensen's future looks to be nowhere even if he
has won his first 5.
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