Kiilu
bursts up Snarski
By Edward Sande
Photos: Courtesy
December 16, 2008 Flash Photo Slideshow
(DEC 16)In a real crossroads battle
between two boxers who could hardly afford to loose, Kenyan David
“Silent Danger” Kiilu (now 30-9-2, 16 KOs) scored a twelfth-round
stoppage of local hero Dariusz Snarski (now 26-29-2, 6 KOs) in
Bialystok, Poland on Sunday December 14th. With the victory Kiilu
captured the vacant UBC lightweight title.
While Snarski was the busier of the two,
Kiilu landed by far the hardest and cleanest punches, and even had his
adversary hurt on several occasions. Already in the first round Snarski
began to bleed from his nose, and midway through the fight his left eye
began to close after receiving numerous southpaw jabs from Kiilu. The
fight was stopped by the doctor at the beginning of the last round when
a huge, almost grotesque cut had literally split Snarski´s lower lip in
two as a consequence of Kiilu´s many hard left hands.
In between the start and the finish, the
fight had been ebb and flow with both warriors having their moments.
Snarski started best and managed to press Kiilu to the ropes a few times
before unloading, but as the fight progressed the visitor started to get
the upper hand and seemed to have figured out how to handle the
aggressive Pole with nice footwork and slick counterpunching. Many
rounds were close, but while Snarski punched more, and handled himself
best during infighting, Kiilu scored with several crisp, clean and hard
punches from the outside and at times exhibited superb ring-generalship.
A happy manager Henrik Risum said after the victory:
“David made the fight too hard for himself in the first four rounds, and
because of that it turned out to be too close for my liking. But I was
stunned to hear after the fight that one of the judges had us behind by
five or six points, which is an absolute hilarious joke. One judge had
David in front by a few points, and the last judge had him trailing by
one or two, which I won’t rant and rave too much about.”
“As it turned out, it was a close fight,
and Snarski was fighting in his own back-yard and doing a helluva good
job too, so I didn’t expect any favours in the scoring. I felt David was
ahead by two or three before the twelfth, but I guess it turned out to
be our luck that the doctor had seen enough blood before the final bell.
At the end of the day all that matters is that David won, and deservedly
so, but I must say that I am impressed with how well Snarski was
fighting and both David and I want to congratulate him on his
performance.”
Risum, still irritated by the ludicrous scoring from one of the judges,
finished his evaluation of the fight by saying:
“I am very proud of David, and when that totally-off-the-mark-judge came
up to me after the fight and told me that David was so-and-so lucky to
win the fight, I couldn’t help but start laughing. I wish I had been
cool enough to ask him what he thinks is most lucky: to win a fight with
one punch that knocks your opponent out, or to win a fight with dozens
and dozens of punches that cuts and bruises the other guy so bad that he
cant continue? One punch can be lucky, but two hundred landed punches,
or more, is not luck. That’s called SKILL!”
