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Cameroon-born 2004 Olympian
Carlos Takam is the new World
Boxing Federation World
Heavyweight Champion after
taking the title from American
Michael Grant Friday night at
the
Gymnase du Clos de l'Arche in
hometown Noisy-le-Grand, France.
Takam took charge from the
start, and was quickly able to
close the distance on his taller
opponent before throwing and
connecting with well-timed hooks
from both hands. The defending
champion fought mostly on the
back foot, and just didn’t seem
to have an answer to the clever
boxing of the challenger.
In round four Grant finally had
some success and started to work
harder, but Takam just stepped
it up himself and continued to
dominate. The visitor relied
mostly on landing his powerful
right hand, but had too little
success to keep Takam off.
In round eight Takam landed a
huge left uppercut that shook
Grant to his boots. As he
quickly followed up and landed
another combination, the corner
of Grant had seen enough and
threw in the towel at the same
time as referee Ingo Barrabas
stepped in to wave it off. Time
was 0:50.
The new world champion, who
improved his record to 28-1
(22), was ecstatic after
completing his masterpiece,
while Grant, now 48-5 (36),
congratulated him on a job well
done.
At the time of the stoppage
judges Jean-Marcel Nartz, Toni
Tiberi and Ernst Salzgeber had
Takam clearly ahead with scores
of 70-63, 69-64 and 70-62.
The fight was promoted by Joseph
Germain. Matchmaker was Christel
Aujoux.
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