Welcome to Under the Radar Fight Results, the weekly column in which I take a look at all the even remotely prominent boxing results from around the world that I haven’t already covered separately. This week we have… next to nothing. This is the single quietest week I’ve seen since I started doing this in March.
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Under the Radar Fight Results
Saturday, January 6th
Jose Velasquez (17-6-2, 11 KOs) KO4 Diego Luis Liriano (17-5-1, 3 KOs), bantamweights – Chile
Bantamweight is maybe the least deep division in the sport right now besides minimumweight and its perpetual nothingness behind one or two fighters. A guy like Jose Velasquez wouldn’t register at most other weights, but 118 lacks that outside the top 20 tier of fighters that no one really pays attention to overall, but are important to the sanctioning bodies. Velasquez has both the Hispanic themed minor belts from the WBA and the WBO. After starting his career 4-5-2, he is 12-1 and even avenged that one defeat. One of these sanctioning bodies is going to throw him into a fight no one wants to see sooner or later, so here he is. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Lolenga Mock (42-14-1, 13 KOs) UD10 Dmitrii Chudinov (20-2-2, 13 KOs), super middleweights – Denmark
45 year old Lolenga Mock just keeps winning in his adopted home of Denmark. Given that there are only two fights total for this entire column this week, I am going talk about him a little longer than normal. Yes, Mock isn’t winning it at the world level, but he is consistently getting his hand raised at a pretty solid European level. He is now 11-0 since his 2013 loss to Erik Skoglund. Quite simply, Lolenga Mock has had one of the craziest career arcs in modern boxing to get this far too.
From 1991 (yes, 1991) to 1997, Lolenga fought at home in Africa and started 17-0. He was 21-2 in 2000 when he started leaving Africa and the wheels fell off as the competition increased. He went 1-7-1 from 2000-2004 fight all over Europe. You might remember Mock, a middleweight with absolutely no power, getting fed to a then 6-0 David Haye at cruiserweight back in 2003. That night didn’t go to plan, however, as middleweight with a 25% knockout percentage damn near knocked Haye out in the second round. Mock was finished a few rounds later, but Lolenga that night was almost responsible for one of the most bizarre results in boxing history.
From there Mock moved to Denmark. After a surprisingly competitive 2003 loss to Mario Veit, he began winning more than he was losing again. He went 9-5 from 2004 to 2013 and fought some pretty good competition in there like Gabriel Campillo, Lucian Bute, and the aforementioned last loss to Skoglund twelve fights ago now. Mock has wins over the likes of Giovanni De Carolis, Luke Blackledge, and now Dmitrii Chudinov (brother to Fedor). He isn’t a world title threat, but who else can say they have peaked in the 27th year of their career? I do think he’d beat European titleholder Hadillah Mohoumadi and I would like to see that fight made for the man who will likely be 46 before he fights again. Really, this is just a fun resume to look over.
That’s it for this very, very quiet week. Thankfully, we are back with a full slate to look at next week.
