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Wild Super Featherweight Ring Trap in Atlantic City

 

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent

 

Atlantic City, NJ (June 13th, 2013)–Sometimes the ordinary bout becomes the extraordinary when an even match boils down to a chess match, sort of a Bobby Fischer versus Boris Spassky in the ring masterpiece, when psychological warfare sometimes determines the winner of a boxing match rather than just the assets of power, speed and timing.

 

Such was the case in the ring at Bally’s Hotel and Casino on a Peltz Promotions card in a preliminary bout where a wild in the ring trap unfolded. Philadelphia super feather fighter Georgi Kevlashvili, a Soviet Georgian, moved around the edges of the ring and got his opponent Jason Sosa of Camden, New Jersey, to follow him blindly. Kevlashvili made up what he lacked in power with speed and cunning, luring Sosa in and throwing double punches to the body and following to the head.

 

Sosa tried switching stances amidst his foolish folly of followinbg Kevlashvili, whose double punches with evil intent dropped Sosa’s higher guard effectively and sent Sosa plummeting to the canvas in round two. Sosa calmly remained down and got to his feet when ready. Still, Sosa continued following Kevlashvili around blindly, and after three rounds, Kevlashvili’s game plan put him up three rounds to none in the eight rounder. So long as Kevlashvili remained on his feet, his four point lead meant Sosa could no longer win the fight.

 

Sosa’s corner advised him to change tactics in round four, and this time Sosa listened, attacking Kevlashvili right away and forcing his hand, not following him, and not allowing him to draw distance and outmaneuver Sosa with speed and timing. Sosa, who hit harder, was too hard a hitter for Kevlashvili to handle. Kevlashvili was knocked down to the canvas, and beat the count at nine, but he was turned from referee Steve Smoger when the bout was stopped at 2:21 of round four.

 

The bout was of great interest for two reasons: One, you never know when an interesting fight will appear on a boxing card; and two, when an even match up occurs, the game plan put into effect by one or more of the fighters can sway the outcome. Sosa, now 9-1-3, five knockouts, and Kevlashvili, now 12-6, three knockouts, proved a fighter’s record is essentially meaningless once the bell rings. Ring generalship, when used by a well-trained fighter, can be critical when a fighter a speed goes up against a fighter of power. The Preying Mantis does not always win his battles in nature, but as he fights on fearlessly he often does, acting innocuous and setting speed traps for unwitting prey. He loses when the stronger prey attacks anyway and does not fall for the trap. An example of where focus, speed and cunning lose to power can be found on YouTube, Hooded Mantis versus Brazilian Wandering Spider Monster, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfYnLzqWtF0

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