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Serhii Bohachuk (25-2, 24 KOs) looked powerful as he dispatched Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) in a sixth-round TKO in their WBC junior middleweight title eliminator this past Saturday. night in Riyadh.
Bohachuk’s display of power
The fight was stopped after the sixth round by referee Hector Afu after Davis’ corner decided to stop the fight. With the hard blows that Bohachuk had delivered in the fifth and sixth rounds, Davis would not have made it past the seventh without being knocked out. The official stoppage time was 3:00 of the sixth round.
Over the course of four rounds, the fight was competitive at times, with Ishmael having brief moments but mostly getting hammered by Bohachuk. In the fifth and sixth, the game was one-sided, with the Ukrainian Bohachuk hitting Davis at medium and close range.
Bohachuk vs. Davis Punch Stats
– Ishmael Davis: 65 of 223 hits for 29.1%
– Serhii Bohachuk: 135 of 414 for 32.6%
Most of Bohachuk’s punches landed in the fight were power shots, which explains why he quickly wore down Davis to earn his sixth-round stoppage. Bohachuk landed 108 power punches and 27 jabs of the 414 punches he threw in the fight. He had excellent precision in his power shots, hitting 41.1% of them. That’s a high number for a fighter with Bohachuk’s type of power.
Davis surpassed
Surprisingly, Davis thought he could fight Serhii on the inside. What a mistake. Bohhachuk’s short punches resembled the punches thrown by light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev. They don’t look powerful, but they do damage. It was interesting that Davis didn’t try to adjust by walking away, but it probably wouldn’t have mattered.
Davis’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, looked somber in the crowd after watching him fall to a left hook from Bohachuk in the second round. Ishmael, 29, had fought well in the first round, landing a right hand that momentarily knocked back former WBC interim 154-pound champion Bohachuk.
Davis hit Bohachuk with a big right hand in the fourth round, but that wasn’t enough to make him back down. Serhii continued to pressure him, hitting him with heavy blows and not allowing him to take much respite between attacks.
Davis’ move wasn’t enough to stop Bohachuk from cutting off the ring and continuing to hit him with GGG-style power shots. The blows weren’t thrown with much speed, but man, they were wearing Ishmael down.
Bohachuk is now the WBC mandatory title for 154-pound champion Sebastian ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora. Unfortunately, he won’t be getting a title shot anytime soon. Fundora will defend against Errol Spence next, and may choose to fight someone else after that in a money fight, such as Terence Crawford.
An interesting fight that I would like to see is Bohachuk against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. However, given Boots’ decision to stay at welterweight to try to unify the division, he would likely turn down a dangerous fight against Bohachuk, no matter how much money Turki Alalshikh offered him. It would be fun to see how Ennis would fare trading power shots against Bohachuk.
With Jaron’s porous defense, Bohachuk would have a field day against him, landing at will and having a better time than he did against Davis. Boots is promoted by Hearn. He would probably resist the idea of Ennis fighting Bohachuk, knowing it wouldn’t end well for him.
