Okolie Obliterates Rozanski in Round One, Claims Bridgerweight Title
Outstanding Performance
Former WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie (20-1, 14 KOs) destroyed undefeated WBC Bridgerweight champion Lukasz Rozanski (15-1, 14 KOs) with a first round, knockout on Friday night in front of a roar. crowd in Rzeszow, Poland. Stoppage time was 2:55 in the first round.
Three Knockdowns, Single Winner
Rozanski spoke to the referee several times after his first hit when he was hit in the back of the head by the 6’5″ Okolie. It didn’t look like that to me.
I watched several times, and I saw Okolie hit Rozanski on the left side of his head with a right hand. It didn’t matter.
The Transformed Okolie
Okolie looked another level than Rozanki from the first seconds of the fight, and he couldn’t miss with his right hand. This was a completely different Okolie than before.
During the fight, the 38-year-old Rozanski was caught with a right hand from 2016 Olympian Okolie. When Rozanski got up, he staggered to the ropes, and Okolie nailed him multiple times, finishing with a right hand that put him down. This time, the referee stepped in and stopped the fight.
Often, Okolie is lost, floundering, and fumbling. Tonight, he looked powerful with deadly accuracy, and was completely unstoppable. Going from cruiserweight at 200 lbs to bridgerweight at 224 makes a big difference, but Okolie looks like he’s worked on his game and improved a lot.
Rozanski’s unexamined record is exposed
Despite having a brilliant 15-0 record going into tonight’s fight, Rozanski was untested as a professional, and was quite young at 38 years old. of the harvest.
Okolie is expected to move up to heavyweight with a win after big money fights with Dillian Whyte and Anthony Joshua.
There is no need for Okolie to stay at Bridgerweight because this division has nothing and does not live for popular fighters and high paying fights. There are far fewer opportunities for money fights at Bridgerweight than at Cruiserweight, and that’s saying a lot.
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