Shakhram Giyasov vs Franco Ocampo Full Fight Matchroom Boxing

Ladies and gentlemen good evening and welcome to the iconic boardwalk hall here in America's playground Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. We are live on the zone for a big night of world championship professional boxing. We begin tonight with a special welterweight attraction set to make his ring walk. Please welcome Franco Cazador Ocampo. You heard the nickname from David Diamante Cazador which means hunter Sergio. 17 to 2, 8 knockouts. I mentioned all his fights have been in South America. I mean he looks good on video but how do you think he's gonna do against an elite level competitor. El Cazador is gonna have his hands full because look he has that Olympic pedigree. He has brilliant fast feet, the angles, the jab and he has power behind that. Ocampo hasn't really fought on this level yet. He doesn't have the amateur pedigree as high as the amateur pedigree of the Wonderboy but he is sneaky pretty good. He lacks power but he has good good movement. He could be tricky. The timing is actually pretty good. In exchanges he could be pretty dangerous. We'll see how this pans out for him. Sneaky pretty good. Not sure I've heard that description before. Please welcome the undefeated Chakram Wonderboy Giyasov. So here comes Giyasov. He is all business as he marches towards the ring. He's a 20 to 1 favorite but he's a big favorite the last time we saw him Chris and he squeaked out a split decision win. Yeah said he learned a lot from that fight specifically when it came to finishing rounds. He thought he left too much open to interpretation for the judges. He wants to get back to being the guy that we saw earlier in his career. His team wants that too. This was a guy that very early on was showcasing really strong power in this weight class. He has gotten away from that. His last five fights only one stoppage and that was against Pablo Cesar Cano who suffered an ankle injury that caused the stoppage. So they want to see him get back to being the puncher he was early in his career. Ladies and gentlemen once again good evening and welcome to the iconic boardwalk hall here in America's playground Atlantic City New Jersey USA. We are live on the zone for a big night of world championship professional boxing. It's all being brought to you courtesy of Mr. Eddie Hearn of Natchroom Boxing. We're sponsored tonight by Bet Online, Everlast, El Mexicano, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Riyadh Season, Visit Atlantic City and Drip. This bout is brought to you in association with World of Boxing and is sanctioned under the auspices of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board. The commissioner is Larry Hazard. Introducing your three judges scoring this contest from ringside. Anthony Lundy, Ron McNair and Paul Wallace. At the sound of the bell your third man in the ring referee David Franciosi. And now ladies and gentlemen ten rounds of boxing scheduled in the welterweight division. Introducing first fighting out of the red corner he wears white with gold trim. He's scaled 153 pounds. His professional record 17 victories, two defeats with eight wins coming by way of knockout. Teleando desde la zapita Buenos Aires, Argentina. Please welcome Franco Cazador Ocampo. Ocampo and his opponent across the ring fighting out of the blue corner. He wears white with green trim. He's scaled 149 pounds. His professional record perfect 16 fights, 16 victories with nine wins coming by way of knockout. He fights out of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Here is the 2016 Olympic silver medalist and the former WBA international and IBF North American champion Chakram Wonderboy Giasov. Giasov. Seconds out. All right gentlemen we heard a lot of the rules earlier. Most important protect yourself at all times, obey my commands at all times, and as I said give me a good clean break. Good luck, best of luck. So Chakram Giasov rated first by the WBA, seventh by the WBO. Hoping to get a world title shot. If not in his next fight hopefully the one after that. But first things first he's got Franco Ocampo. A relative unknown from Argentina but if he's like some of the Argentine fighters we've called in the past he is going to be a tough out. This is what I'm saying every time you see a tough Argentinian on the fight card you never know what you're going to get. There have been some really good fighters fighting out of Argentina most notably recently Sergio Martinez, great former world champion Ryan Castaño. Ocampo told us he knows both those guys. Says he's more Sergio Martinez as a fighter than he is the pressure guy that is Castaño. I don't see the Sergio Martinez. Martinez had brilliant footwork, great upper body movement. He was a southpaw, speed, power. Ocampo doesn't have none of that. Ocampo's uh he has bad balance I mean but he has good timing that's what I was talking about by sneaky good. But his technique that's the main thing that really uh worries me when it comes when he drops his hands and he doesn't have the the speed to actually get out of the way. They're just like that. You don't see the warning from the referee to Giasoff. It's like death taxes and Giasoff getting warned for low punches. Like he is not afraid to stray near that belt line to land the body shots. Why he's one of the best body punchers in boxing. He's pretty aggressive with that body work. Well we saw in his last fight against Miguel Parra in Santa Monica. That was July of last year. He hit Parra with a brutal body shot. As clean as you want dropped him but the referee said it was low and in fact took a point away. Giasoff should have won by knockout instead it went to the card split decision win. That's one of those fights where the box wreck doesn't do it justice. Giasoff did a great body shot. Digging with that left hand Sergio. I was telling you today I think Giasoff is going to get a liver shot and put Acampo away. Listen the longer this fight goes the worse it's going to look for Giasoff especially he wants a big performance. He wants to get these title shots. The thing about Ocampo he's a tricky fighter. He already turned southpaw and he went back and forth. It was to his detriment he got caught in between with the left hook but if he can he can get that jab going and he can switch orthodox and southpaw and do it right and responsibly he can give issues to Giasoff. Giasoff on the front foot since the opening bell. He likes to put pressure on his opponents break them down but every time he's kind of stepped up to the upper echelon of opponents Sergio he's struggled a little bit. He used to knock everybody out. It's like he gets content with just winning rounds and being in control and not losing a fight. I mean not losing rounds but that's not what he needs right now. He needs to get people talking about him again. Oh there's a left hook and it almost dropped Acampo. That'll get people talking here in Atlantic City. The Argentinian backed in the corner eats another left shot from Giasoff. He wants a first round knockout. Can Wonder Boy seal the deal here? 30 seconds to go and Acampo's down. Beautiful not smothering his power he was backing up. He let he let Acampo fall off balance. They're not coming into a shot. He doesn't want anymore. He is up but barely. The referee taking a good look. Acampo has the look of resignation in his face. Giasoff chomping at the bit. He's got 10 seconds to finish the job. 10 seconds is a lifetime when you're that hurt. One more shot. And that'll do it. They'll make it to the end of the round but just. Acampo with his flat his back flat against the ropes. Do you want to get angle whenever you are hurt and you want to lay against flat-footed not get in front of an opponent that long. He got caught with that left hook twice. That's the reason he almost got knocked out. Nice right hand to start the round for Acampo who's trying to show some signs of life. Sergio those head shots that Giasoff land that rocked Acampo. Those were all due to going to the body first. Like Acampo's very wary of getting hit in the midsection. And Giasoff's well aware of that. That's the reason to keep he started this round going to the body. But that left hook will be there again because Acampo lacks good defense. He doesn't keep his hands up and he gets lazy with that. And it exchanges which is another thing Acampo. He likes exchanging with a bigger faster puncher. That's a normal for him. Giassoff looks so much bigger than Acampo. Both men entered this fight with 91 total rounds. Identical. They have the same amount of experience but of course Giassoff's opponents have been much better quality. Giassoff is of course a former olympic silver medalist. Great background in Uzbekistan. Great training camp. He's part of that group that includes M. Jack Medalyev, Bekimir Malakuziev. So these guys are extremely talented fighters. You can see Acampo much more gun shy now playing defense first. Yeah there's levels to this game. Giassoff like you said Chris was a silver medalist and this is a man who only had 21 fights as an amateur. So there's levels to to the amateur game and of course levels in the pro game. Acampo told us he didn't want to start fast. I mean he started fast but he was at the wrong end of it. Giassoff started a lot faster. And you can see that Giassoff is taking his time being patient. Acampo fighting for just the first time in 15 months so he might have some ring rust but the wonder boy already knocked that off of him in round one. But hey in the past Chris we've seen Giassoff have opponents down early having trouble but he just hasn't been able to put them away. Yeah this is where you'd like to see Giassoff step on the gas. I mean the body language on Acampo after he went down was not good. Like he was not looking to be in this fight. If Giassoff lets his hands go I think the referee is going to step in. Almost went down there with another left hand. I think Giassoff's looking for the one punch knockout though. I think he's looking for that kind of spectacular statement. I think he's having such an easy time in there landing shots. I mean everything he throws is landing on Acampo whether it's a straight jab a right hand. Fighters are supposed to avoid the first punches. Normally in combinations Acampo has zero upper body movement. He has no fast twitch muscle. Giassoff should take advantage of that with combinations and speed. That's how he gets the stoppage. And now Acampo's not moving. Acampo not moving at all. Just sitting against the ropes. Beats another left. He can't get out of the way. And he might have busted that nose too. Keeps grabbing at it with her. Pawing at it with his glove. Giassoff can't miss. I mean he's power pot shotting this man and he can't miss with every punch that he throws. Five seconds. Well you probably could have gotten pretty good odds for Acampo to make it out of round two and he did it. And this was a knockdown back in round one. This is what I liked about Giassoff. Notice right there Acampo tried to smother the attack. He tried to clinch and Giassoff's feet just stepped back real nicely to make him fall off balance. Make him run into the shots. That's experience right there. That is a guy that's really calm under the pressure. You caught the corner of Chakram Giassoff. His trainer for this fight is Radza Butaev who we saw a few years ago in the ring against Amatis Daniolis. Former 147 pound contender as well. Let's see if Giassoff steps on the pedal here. The last thing he wants to do is allow Acampo to just hang in there for five or six rounds. I agree and that that's the uh knock that we have on Giassoff. He starts off really fast. He looks good. He looks like he's going to get the the fighter out and then all of a sudden goes the distance. He's having issues with the fighter in front of him. He shouldn't be having issues with a fighter like Acampo who like I said has bad technique, bad balance, doesn't have a quick quick jab. See everything that he's throwing is lining up. You could just bust him up with shotgun jabs if you're Giassoff. Bust up that nose, booze up that face and have his team or anyone else stop this fight. Because like I already tell Acampo does take a big punch but he's going to get hit too cleanly. It's got to be more than one punch for Giassoff. Like I said put together three four punch combinations. We've seen that from him just like that in the past. Downstairs back upstairs that left hook. That body shot was nice. Went around the left the left elbow of Acampo. And he can he can do that again and switch it up with the overhand right around the guard. It'll be good night. Giassoff only 16 pro fights at the age of 31. Had 400 amateur bouts so he's seen it all in there. Acampo just kind of standing there eating jabs. I guess he can do that for a while. Well he knows that against against the ropes you know at least he can have Giassoff come at him you know so he feels a little bit more safe against the ropes. It's in the middle of the ring where you can't compete with the full worth of speed the angles. So in a way he's safer against the ropes and in the corner. Such a hot start for Giassoff. The body shot that hurt that hurt Acampo. Yeah and he might drop he might go down trying to fight his way out of it but that right elbow is protecting the liver. I don't know if Giassoff knows that he hurt him. Yeah it was a nice left hook man. There's a thing about these athletic fighters these Uzbek fighters when I watch them fight they throw brilliant combinations but they don't double up on shots especially to the body. When you have someone hurt like that to the body even if they block it or hit the forearm that's still gonna be damaging. Go downstairs double even triple up that body shot downstairs. By the way 31 years old can you still call Giassoff wonder boy? Does he have to be wonder man now? At what point do we make the transition? No I mean we still call Oscar the golden boy so there you go. What's a word for an old snake? Serpiente vieja. We prefer english Sergio but you can't hit your sap button at home. So another dominant round for Giassoff who doesn't get the finish that it seems that he can almost get whatever he wants if he goes for the gusto. Hey Box Lab Promotions presents an exciting night of boxing as Kevin Brown faces Uteri Suero live from Orlando next Friday as part of DAZN's 185 plus fight nights a year. 185 Chris Mannix. It's a lot. It's a lot of fight nights. Whenever you're touching upstairs it's downstairs it's gonna be open because look a fighter that's outmatched like Ocampo is not expecting shots to come under like that. That's a good shot that that put anyone down right there. Anytime you land those shots that cleanly Giassoff should keep going back downstairs even if they're blocked they're gonna hurt just as much. So round four who would have thought we'd be this deep into the fight. Nice right hand there for Ocampo. We'd be this deep into the fight after Ocampo nearly got stopped at the end of round one. Yeah you're right Sergio. Ocampo just wants to go back and find the ropes. He's backing up there. He cannot do anything in the middle of the ring. No he can't because he doesn't have the legs the strength the uh the bounce on his feet. He gets in trouble in the middle of the ring so at least against the ropes you're getting the the feeling of the ropes going back and forth and some fighters can actually fight well with that bounce. Giassoff as Chris mentioned earlier fighting in memory and in honor of his daughter Miriam who passed away just a few months ago. That cannot be an easy thing to do. I couldn't even imagine being in camp and having those that was that tragic news it's horrible news and it just happened one month ago and now he's back right here fighting it's incredible. I mean the way that fighters compartmentalize their personal life to take care of business it's on another level. Well Sergio you know sometimes when you have tragedy in your life the one thing you want to do is not think about it all the time. You want to do something to keep your mind occupied and this is the craft that he is so good at as we look at power shots thrown and landed and it's been all Giassoff. You guys were talking a little bit about the lackluster performances as of late and I do think his daughter's health had a lot to do with that he would spend a lot of time visiting doctors around the world trying to find the treatments that might work and they take a toll when you're spending your downtime trying. Oh a body punch sorry Chris just a nice little light touch with the right hand Sergio picture pinpoint perfect. There was nothing light about that was a straight right hand to the body this fight is over. And Chakrav Giassoff gets the knockout win he wanted and in honor of his late daughter congratulations to the wonder boy who wins here in Atlantic City. What a great man what a great fighter and man to be here to do exactly what he's doing it really is incredible after his daughter's demise and passing man I mean I gotta I gotta give all the credit in the world So Giassoff now 17 and 0 with 10 knockouts Sergio he's been saying look I'm next man up he wants a title opportunity in your opinion should he get it? Yeah well he's highly ranked especially in WBBA so yeah he deserves it. Ocampo we knew that he was here as a B-Side but this is a man that hasn't been knocked out in 19 fights he had amateur and Olympic experience as well Giassoff did the job got the knockout and it was with one punch to the body you hardly see that it's a rarity so all credit to Giassoff he passed the test We'll see the knockout in just a minute but want to tell you where we're going to be next weekend ladies and gentlemen Oceanside California live on the zone Gabriela Fundura the youngest undisputed champion of boxing history will be defending her ring IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO flyweight world titles against undefeated Marilyn Badillo that's next Saturday from California Sergio you said it was a powerful shot to me it looked like he just reached out and hit him with a stun gun why don't you watch it again and see that it lands perfectly perfectly right there those shots right there those hurt me right now just watching them you can see the grimace in the face that's that's a right hand to the liver I mean normally you're accustomed to getting left hooks to the liver but the lead right hand that's a dominant hand from a right-handed fighter landing right on that organ it's it's painful you're not going to get up from those shots and you can see look touch him upstairs and still got hit with that right hand didn't phase him nothing nothing to keep him off him just to set up that shot throw away a jab upstairs bend your knees get that nice right hand downstairs so the civil medalist of the 2016 olympics has another win in the welterweight division he's rated first by the WBA seventh by the WBO his future looks very bright let's make it official and David Diamante ladies and gentlemen referee David Franciosi reaches the count of 10 at one minute and 57 seconds of round number four declaring your winner by knockout he's still undefeated shakram wonder boy Giyasov Shakram Giyasov upward and onward Sergio his last performance you gave him a C I did what would you give him tonight well you gotta you gotta give this man an A I mean he did everything that you want from somebody that still has championship ambitions and he knocked out a fighter that's never been stopped a guy that came to win a guy that was you know stubborn and he got him out of there so I give him an A you have to give him an A he's standing by now with Chris Mannix well Shakram congratulations you stay undefeated and you get your first knockout in about four years how'd you feel about that performance I'm feeling great because yes of course four years and hard opponents for me big fights 12 rounds more for me it's experience you know four five fights and 12 rounds 10 rounds it's good for me but now I'm starting my knockout you know you set the tone for this fight early on with that knockdown to the head you went back downstairs to the body what was working for you in this fight yes of course we are with steam working hard work you know to good camp for our for us we're working more body work more body shot and more combination for for knockout you know we got it we did it it's obviously a difficult camp for you with the passing of your daughter what kind of emotions did you have coming into the ring tonight it's for me very very very hard and very hard camp you know because I lost my daughter she's she see me she's now watching me she pray for me I've I promise I promise her I promise I I want to be world champion you know I love us here you made her that promise now you shock them of course you're next in line it's it's it's fight it's fight for my daughter it's victory for my daughter next fight I wanna I promise for my daughter I wanna uh I be world champion she she believe me I I did it uh I know this you know give me chance I do it congratulations great fight and best to you and your family thank you thank you so much thank you well Sergio you know we we both have daughters I mean I just I can't imagine man I'd hit my heart man I just I don't know I don't know how to respond to that I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to do what he did Todd I'll tell you that man I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to do what he just did well how can you doubt what he says when he's telling us his next fight will be for a world championship he promised his daughter he would win it and he knows he's going to do it you do not want any part of Chakram let's take a look back at his performance here tonight a performance that Sergio rated an A and I'll tell you again I'm gonna tell you because this is a stubborn guy in Ocampo you know he was confident he came into this fight very confident he said he had more power than his percentage indicated but it wasn't the power that intimidated with Gias off it was the balance it was the footwork it was a pop shot he couldn't miss with neither punch but at that right hand right there you can't get it with a straight right hand right to the liver right there Ocampo's not a natural southpaw what was he doing on that stance that's why he got caught with that shot he wasn't able to get out in time because he's not an after natural left-hander Gias off figured that out figured him out got the stoppage