| Kickboxing: Strugar KOed, losses belt in return match with Zildžić |
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| Thursday, 15 May 2008 21:22 | ||||
 A lightening quick, pile driver of a left hook to the head ended Ivan Strugar’s reign as the light heavyweight (low kick) champion of the World Association of Kickboxing Organisations on May 10, in Mejdan, Bosnia-Herzegovina.The Montenegrin got his clock cleaned by his archrival, Salko Zildžić, of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The knockout punch came with eight seconds remaining in the fourth round. Strugar went down like an anchor. However, miraculously still comprehending that he was seconds away from being saved by the bell, the champion staggered to his feet within a few seconds while the referee administered the requisite standing 8 count. Strugar was clearly out on his feet as he weebled and wobbled back and forth. His eyes glazed and his nose bleeding, the Montenegrin hero gallantly attempted to convince the ref that he could go on. But Strugar is a fighter, not an actor and even a sadistic twelve year old could have seen that it would be nothing less than criminal to let Zildžić have at him again, for it surely would have been a savage beating and a proud man would have been reduced to a pile of witless, bloody hamburger. "He hit me in the nose and the bleeding was so plentiful that I couldn’t continue with the fight. A moment of negligence cost me a win and my title. Until the break I had the match under control and I was better but he got me with a fatal kick that I didn’t see at all,” said Strugar. And that was the beginning of the end for the champ. Strugar was 4 points ahead when he got KOed. In December of last year Strugar won a unanimous decision over Zildžić in Budva, on the Montenegrin coast. Strugar and fight fans all over are hoping that the new champ returns the favour by giving Strugar a shot at taking back his belt some time soon.
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