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 last Saturday night in Riyadh.
Bohachuk’s Power Display
The fight was stopped after the sixth round by referee Hector Afu after Davis’ corner chose to stop the bout. With the hard blows Bohachuk hit him with in rounds five and six, Davis would not have made it through the seventh without being knocked out. The official time of the stoppage was at 3:00 of round six.
Through four rounds, the fight was competitive at times, with Ishmael having brief moments but mostly getting hammered royally by Bohachuk. In the fifth and sixth it was one-sided with the Ukrainian Bohachuk kicking off at medium and short range on Davis.
Bohachuk vs Davis Punch Statistics
– Ishmael Davis: 65 of 223 shots for 29.1%
– Serhii Bohachuk: 135 of 414 for 32.6%
Most of Bohachuk’s shots that landed in the fight were power punches, which explains why he quickly wore Davis down to get his sixth-round stoppage. Bohachuk connected on 108 power punches and 27 punches of the 414 punches he threw in the fight. He had excellent accuracy on his power shots, landing 41.1% of them. That’s a high number for a fighter with Bohachuk’s kind of power.
Davis excelled
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 like they are powerful, but they do damage. It was interesting that Davis didn’t try to adjust by moving away, but it probably wouldn’t have mattered.
Davis’ promoter, Eddie Hearn, looked somber in the crowd after watching him get dropped by a left hook from Bohachuk in the second round. Ishmael, 29, fought well in the first round, landing a looping right hand that momentarily backed up former WBC interim 154-lb champion Bohachuk.
Davis nailed Bohachuk with a nice right hand in the fourth round, but it wasn’t enough to stop him. Serhii kept pushing him, hitting him hard and not letting him blow between attacks.
Davis’ movement wasn’t nearly enough to prevent Bohachuk from cutting off the ring and continuing to fluff him with haircut GGG-esque power shots. The punches weren’t thrown with much speed, but man, they wore Ishmael.
Bohachuk is now the WBC mandatory for 154-lb champion Sebastian ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora. Unfortunately, he’s not going to get a title shot anytime soon. Fundora will next defend against Errol Spence, and he could choose to fight someone else in a money fight after that, such as Terence Crawford.
An interesting fight I’d like to see is Bohachuk vs Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. However, given Boots’ decision to stay at welterweight to try and unify the division, he would probably reject a dangerous fight against Bohachuk regardless of how much money Turki Alalshikh offered him. It will be fun to see how Ennis would power shots against Bohachuk.
With Jaron’s porous defense, Bohachuk would have a field day against him, landing at will and having an easier time than against Davis. Boots is promoted by Hearn. He would probably balk at the idea of ​​Ennis fighting Bohachuk, knowing it wouldn’t end well for him.
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