Jean-Marc Mormeck’s aspirations to become France’s first world heavyweight champion were dashed on Saturday after title-holder Vladimir Klitschko knocked the Frenchman out in the fourth round with a searing left-right combination.
REUTERS - Vladimir Klitschko knocked out
Jean-Marc Mormeck of France with a stinging left-right combination in
the fourth round to retain his world heavyweight titles at the Esprit
Arena on Saturday.
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The Ukrainian, who holds the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA versions of the
championship while his older brother Vitali has the WBC crown, took his
career tally to 50 knockouts from 60 fights with just three losses.
Klitschko, 35, had knocked down former cruiserweight world champion
Mormeck, who at 1.81 metres is 17 centimetres shorter than the
Ukrainian, in the second round with a huge right that sent the Frenchman
sprawling.
Klitschko, whose last defeat stretches back to 2004, inflicted more
punishment in the next two rounds, his left working to open his
opponent up as Mormeck ducked low to avoid his wider reach, before
finishing him off in the fourth.
“I have been doing this for 15 years and now I have my 50th knockout,” Klitschko said in a ringside interview. “The road was long but I am here.
“He tried everything in the second and third rounds. I got a job in
the face that is still stinging but I dominated,” he added as some of
the 50,000 fans whistled and jeered after the short fight.
Mormeck, looking to become the first heavyweight world champion
from France, hardly landed a punch and was left wondering how it ended
so quickly.
“It is difficult to box against him. He is so much taller and that
makes it hard,” said the 39-year-old, whose record now stands at 36
victories and five losses.
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