Mehmet Unal vs. Jan Czerklewicz (05-06-2025) Full Fight

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00:00your protector is a little bit high okay here it's good and here it's good okay you receive

00:06my instruction in your dressing room respect my instruction all the time protect yourself

00:10at all times touch love good luck guys so two former sparring partners going at it here in

00:19our co-feature as we take a look at the tail of the tape you see Jan Cherklavich enjoying a height

00:24advantage but giving up a lot in terms of reach here tonight Mehmet Unal and Jan Cherklavich are co-feature

00:32this one scheduled for 10 Cherklavich back up at his natural weight division of 175

00:39dropped a 10-round unanimous decision to Kamil Bednarik last time out in what some of the

00:46Polish boxing journalists regarded as one of the very best fights of the year in Poland

00:52and most expect this to be a pretty exciting one as well as we talked about Morgan two guys with

00:58very similar mentalities inside the ring yeah and you can see right away the the size disparity

01:03Jan Cherklavich is a full-size light heavyweight what you saw him do right there sort of circle

01:07away from Mehmet Unal is the thing that he does not really want to do he'll do it if he has to do it

01:12but what he really likes to do is come forward and that's the exact same thing Mehmet Unal likes to do

01:18and so the question for Unal is uh if plan a doesn't work and we'll get to this a little bit

01:22later what is his plan b because his plan a his plan b has tended to be plan a except with more

01:28intensity uh but we'll see if Cherklavich can sort of bring that out of him tonight yeah to your point

01:32Morgan Unal stylistically very much a swarmer yes a volume puncher if you're going to use a tennis

01:38analogy he's basically looking for uh volley exchanges at the net wagering that he's going to

01:44put the ball away eventually I would have said he's one of these guys that just likes long baseline

01:48rounds sure somebody gets tired nice left hook to the body there from Unal and so far Unal has

01:56just basically been able to hook his way to the inside yes throw that overhand right even his

02:02signature punches do I have it in my notes Corey it says stylistically he's not fancy he's a forward

02:08moving banger who likes to force the action he eats a lot of punches but it hasn't caused him real

02:13trouble yet so we'll see if tonight sort of breaks that pattern yeah we'll see one way or the other

02:19tonight is that night Cherklavich plenty confident coming into this one right now just getting

02:26rocked by these sweeping hooks from Unal who is all over Cherkavich and down he goes Cherklavich down

02:35on the mat slumped in his corner

02:37Cherklavich finding out that this is not like those sparring sessions

02:46Cherklavich one of the most recent sparring partners for Archer better beev

02:52that's an important point Corey because if anybody knows what it feels like to be hit

02:59by a bona fide 175 pound home run hitter it's anybody that has sparred with Archer better beev

03:07that's a home run right hand and Cherklavich is down in the very same place

03:12and already you see the commission officials talking to his corner

03:17and if he doesn't show something even in these last 10 seconds

03:20it'd be very precarious for him

03:24now going down to the body and back up top

03:27Cherklavich down and that is it

03:31Memenu now with the best performance of his career

03:35and the best performance of his career and it still leaves a lot of these questions unanswered

03:41what's going to happen when he comes up with a guy who can take his punch

03:44we don't know we haven't found that guy yet what's going to happen when he has to switch to plan b

03:49we don't know because no one's made him switch to plan b

03:51and what's going to happen when he comes up against a guy who's punch he can't take

03:54we don't know we haven't seen that yet so we have to wait a few more weeks

03:58or a few more months until we get start getting answers to those questions

04:01but that's not Mehmed Unal's fault

04:03they put guys in front of him and he does what he does

04:05well and credit to Unal as well I mean there was a little bit of a stylistic difference here tonight

04:10you look at the shots that he was buzzing Cherklavich with

04:13you know those are kind of longer range hooks than he normally would have thrown

04:17we described him as very much a crowder

04:19yes

04:20a smothering type of volume puncher

04:22but he had full extension on most of those shots that he was clubbing Cherklavich with

04:27yeah he's evolving as an offensive fighter even as he is still this come forward banger that we're used to

04:33and again even leading up to that first knockdown

04:35really smart went to the hook hook to the body and it came up and threw that left hook to the head

04:40and that was the first knockdown for Cherklavich and again there's there's uh some creativity to the

04:45offense uh that we hadn't seen before so he still is evolving as an offensive fighter

04:50even though we still haven't seen him have to go to a plan b yet

04:53see the emotion on the face of Jan Cherklavich who had hoped that tonight would be

05:00a breakthrough moment for him this is a guy who came very close to qualifying

05:05for the Olympics as an amateur last year he went back

05:08to compete for his country fell short in the Olympic trials

05:13now came back to the professional ranks

05:16yeah and he's another one of these elite by association guys but again what it

05:22illustrates is the difference between being elite by association and actually being elite so he is

05:26sparred with better bf he can always drop that name he's sparred with mehmerunol he can always

05:31drop that name he's a guy when he lived in houston uh because his dad had got a job in the u.s he

05:35followed his dad to the u.s he lived in houston for a while was just a guy working out in the gym

05:40where ronnie shields trained eventually got a chance to go work out in ronnie shields's gym and again

05:45that's another name he can always drop it there's a big difference between

05:47uh being elite by association in that sense and actually being elite

05:51remember now who we mentioned is inside the top 40 with the wbc will inch a little bit closer

06:00to the top 15 with that win which we are going to make official right now

06:03mesdames messieurs chronomètre officiel 2 minutes 56 secondes du premier round

06:09l'arbitre martin forêt arrête le combat déclarant le gagnant par tko

06:14ladies and gentlemen official time two minutes 56 seconds of round number one

06:18referee martin forêt stops the fight declaring the winner by tko and now the wbc continental

06:29america's light heavyweight champion mehmet unau so mehmet unau with another early knockout victory

06:47second straight knockout win

06:51for

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