Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-05-20, very nice and tough fight between Youri Kalenga and Yunier Dorticos: it gets three stars.Youri Kayembre Kalenga entered this fight with a professional boxing record of 22-2-0 (15 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.14 cruiserweight in the world. He fought twice last year losing to Denis Lebedev (=Lebedev vs Kalenga) and winning over Roberto Feliciano Bolonti (=Kalenga vs Bolonti).
His opponent, the undefeated Yunier Dorticos, has a perfect record of 20-0-0 (19 KOs=95%) and he entered as the No.18 in the same weight class. He also fought twice in 2015 beating Galen Brown and Fulgencio Zuniga. Kalenga vs Dorticos is valid for the vacant WBA World cruiserweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-05-20
Where: Palais des Sports Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
Division: cruiserweight (200 lbs, 90.7 kg)
Title: vacant WBA World cruiserweight title
Kalenga’s previous fight: Youri Kalenga vs Roberto Bolonti
Dorticos’ next fight: Yunier Dorticos vs Dmitry Kudryashov
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good fight !!
4 star there. Has to be.
Both fighters in epic form.
Kalenga is physically so strong, but need to be polished. Use too much of his power shot causing him to be off balance.
Dorticos was technically better, was able to figure out kalenga faster….The uppercut was the key and he used it a lot.
Good fight.
Strange, this fight is definitely above 3 stars!
Pretty good fight… this one deserves to be the fight of the week since most of the bouts this weekend were kinda boring in comparison.
A nice exchange of punches in a very active fight thanks to the full time aggression by the French boxer who got a very nice and incredible recovery after his knock down. No doubts that the Cuban has excellent punching power but was slow and anticipating most of his punches. This fight could has been finished much more earlier but Dorticos fully allowed Kalenda to do his fighting plan almost just going for counter punching instead proceeding with aggressive attacks.