The stroke of midnight had passed when the Canadian accent of Pierre Bernier vociferated one last time in a Zénith de Nantes full as a coat hanger. It was to announce that David Papot kept his IBA world super welterweight champion belt.
In front of 6,000 spectators, the protege of David Musset obtained the favors of the judges (116-111, 113-115 and 117-114). Of course, the boxer from Team Celtic Fighters has very rarely occupied the center of the ring but his boxing science and his left hooks out of exchange weighed in the balance. He himself did not necessarily imagine himself a winner: I see it above
confided in the ring the child of Saint-Nazaire.
The performance was up to par. Both boxers were perfectly prepared. Ahmed El Mousaoui looked for the blow from mid-fight. The Lyonnais was certainly the most active. Papot never panicked, remained faithful to the established plan, agreeing to step back but always perfectly on his feet to place one or two left hooks.
Ahmed El Mousaoui’s right shook him on the cheekbone as well as on the bridge of the nose, but we know that Penhoet’s child is fragile. It is perhaps for this reason that David Papot could not fully appreciate his victory last night. I find myself inferior. I don’t think I’m properly savoring my victory. I have a bitter taste. We’ll see if there’s a Zenith 2 for a rematch.
Bright Tajan
In the other headline fight of the evening, Elie Konki faltered before collapsing backwards as the second round was just beginning. Loïc Tajan’s strike force had spoken. Lightning struck the former Team Solide boxer.
A right followed by a left from which we do not recover. The Loiret bantamweight could jump like a goat. His opponent had mocked him, wanted to make him a social media boxer, the response was scathing.
It’s a hell of a character who won last night at the Zénith de Nantes. He has a smile on his shoulder, humor as a second companion, he boxes but also animates. He wants revenge? Tomorrow morning if he wants. More seriously, we will see that after the summer. July and August are sunny and the alcohol is flowing.
Loïc Tajan is a boxer who does not take himself seriously but who fights seriously. He may say he has no plan, he quickly analyzed the tactics of an opponent too eager to want to put things right and place his direct right. He broke the distance, hurt very badly as soon as he touched. He was wary of my left hook but he forgot to be wary of it at the right time. And to think that he eats boxing every day…
The belt, it will gather dust. Me, I just want to get off and the people in the room get off on theirs…
To see the joy of the Musset brothers, we already know where the rest of the tattooed will be written.
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