Nagy stops Mwekasse in six!

September 6, 2008

By Ron Jackson

In a poor excuse for a world title fight, Jozsef Nagy of Hungary stopped Zack Mwekasse from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the sixth round of an untidy affair to win the vacant World Boxing Foundation cruiserweight belt at the Graceland Casino in Secunda on Friday night.

The 33-year-old Nagy (89.58 kg) who came into the ring with a tyre around his midriff that resembled the Michelin man was down five times before he came back to stop Mwekasse (89.18) in the sixth round.

After a quiet opening round with a lot of pushing and mauling by both fighters which was the pattern throughout the fight, Nagy went down from a right uppercut to the jaw in the second round.

Through rounds three to five the Hungarian was up and down like a yo-yo. He went down twice in the third round the first time from a right to his flabby body and the second time from an uppercut just before the bell.

In round four there were no knockdowns as both fighters were warned by the referee for infringements, but in round five Nagy was down again from a right to the body. He barely made the count and was in a bad way but the referee let it continue.

At this stage of the fight Mwekasse (89.18 kg) had punched himself out and was completely exhausted as he came of his stool at the start of the sixth round. He had very little to offer as the bloodied Nagy scored with combination punches to the head before landing a cuffing right to the side of the head that sent Mwekasse down flat on his face.

He stumbled to his feet on unsteady legs to beat the count, but was in no condition to fight back as the Hungarian backed him up against the ropes and was landing punches at will before referee Wally Snowball stepped in to call the fight off at 1 minute 55 seconds into round six.

Nagy improves his record to 19-2; 13 and Mwekasse drops to 8-1; 8.

On the undercard in a junior featherweight contest Tendai Munyai (54.26 kgs) won on a split decision against Klaas Mbonyane (53.26 kg) over six entertaining rounds and in a six round junior lightweight contest Lebogang Mboniswa (58.97 kg) outpointed Sam Sithole (58.16 kg).