Superman looked super against Dmitry ?The Hunted? Sukhotsky, but he needs to fight Lex Luthor, not Jimmy Olsen?
Saturday night at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, Canada, WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (25-1, 21 KOs), from Laval, Quebec, Canada, by way of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, wasted Dmitry Sukhotsky (22-3, 16 KOs), aka The Hunter, from Barnaul, Russia, knocking him down four times en route to a stoppage at 2:42 of the fifth round.
Fighting out of the red corner in Kronk gold, Stevenson, the 37-year-old lineal light heavyweight champion under the stewardship of the increasingly less mysterious Al Haymon, was fed a creampuff for the fourth defense of the title he won from Chad Dawson last year. It was a brutal mismatch that served no purpose. The fight may have filled airtime and the Pepsi Coliseum, but judging by the cheers of the crowd, a faulty barometer in the best of times, it was less to the consternation than for the delectation of the Quebecois in attendance and those watching the fight on Showtime.
The 33-year-old Sukhotsky, fighting out of the blue corner in black trunks trimmed in silver, had no business being in the ring with the man known as Superman. Although he is ranked #5 by the WBC, by virtue of god knows what criteria, his record is less a list of who?s whos that an assemblage of who?s thats. Sukhotsky may have looked good against the likes Joey Vegas, Eduard Gutknecht, Mikhail Krinitsin, and Volodymyr Borovskyy, but he was grotesquely overmatched against Stevenson.
Nobody in their right mind cares if Stevenson fights Jean Pascal or Bernard Hopkins. Neither is the best light heavy on the planet. The only fight that matters is for Stevenson to fight WBA/IBF/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev. Pleading with Superman, or with Al Haymon for that matter, is equivalent to banging one?s head against a wall, but the hardheaded Jim Gray, at the fight?s conclusion, did ask Adonis about getting it on with Krusher.
?You have to come to me,? Stevenson said. ?I?m the big champion. You have to come to me. I?m the main light heavyweight. So they have to come to me?I?m Superman.?
Superman looked super against Dmitry ?The Hunted? Sukhotsky, but he needs to fight Lex Luthor, not the Daily Planet?s Jimmy Olsen.
