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In a real crossroads battle between two boxers who could hardly afford to lose, Risum Boxing’s David “Silenter Danger” Kiilu, 30-9-2 (16), scored a twelfth-round stoppage of local hero Dariusz Snarski, 26-29-2 (6), in Bialystok, Poland on Sunday December 14. With the victory, Kiilu captured the vacant UBC Lightweight title.
While Snarski was the busier of the two, Kiilu landed by far the hardest and cleanest punches, and even had his adversary hurt on several occasions. Already in the first round Snarski began to bleed from his nose, and midway through the fight his left eye began to close after receiving numerous southpaw jabs from Kiilu.
The fight was stopped by the doctor at the beginning of the last round when a huge, almost grotesque cut had literally split Snarski´s lower lip in two as a consequence of Kiilu´s many hard left hands.
In between the start and the finish, the fight had been ebb and flow with both warriors having their moments. Snarski started best and managed to press Kiilu to the ropes a few times before unloading, but as the fight progressed the visitor started to get the upper hand and seemed to have figured out how to handle the aggressive Pole with nice footwork and slick counterpunching.
Many rounds were close, but while Snarski punched more, and handled himself best during infighting, Kiilu scored with several crisp, clean and hard punches from the outside and at times exhibited superb ring-generalship.
A happy manager Henrik Risum said after the victory: “David made the fight too hard for himself in the first four rounds, and because of that it turned out to be too close for my liking. But I was stunned to hear after the fight that one of the judges had us behind by five or six points, which is an absolute hilarious joke. One judge had David in front by a few points, and the last judge had him trailing by one or two, which I won’t rant and rave too much about.
“As it turned out, it was a close fight, and Snarski was fighting in his own back-yard and doing a helluva good job too, so I didn’t expect any favours in the scoring. I felt David was ahead by two or three before the twelfth, but I guess it turned out to be our luck that the doctor had seen enough blood before the final bell.
“At the end of the day all that matters is that David won, and deservedly so, but I must say that I am impressed with how well Snarski was fighting and both David and I want to congratulate him on his performance.”
Risum, still irritated by the ludicrous scoring from one of the judges, finished his evaluation of the fight by saying: “I am very proud of David, and when that totally-off-the-mark-judge came up to me after the fight and told me that David was so-and-so lucky to win the fight, I couldn’t help but start laughing.
“I wish I had been cool enough to ask him what he thinks is most lucky: to win a fight with one punch that knocks your opponent out, or to win a fight with dozens and dozens of punches that cuts and bruises the other guy so bad that he cant continue? One punch can be lucky, but two hundred landed punches, or more, is not luck. That’s called Skill!”
