Dakota Stone's performance on the
"Pro Sieben Fight Night" bill in Cologne on Friday came in for
scathing treatment yesterday from sections of the German media–
notably the tabloid Das Bild. Alongside a picture –
derived, presumably, from her Penthouse shoot – of the
Russian's naked derrière (which, we read, even she finds
'particularly sexy'), bawled the headline: "Steam-hammer 'Nacktascha'
beats the living daylights out of Dakota."
"There's no stopping 'Nacktascha',"
the article continued. (It isn't that they can't spell 'Natascha',
as you're about to discover; it's just that 'nackt' means 'nude'
in German). "Natascha Ragosina (31) gave Dakota Stone (38) a
real drubbing in Cologne, winning convincingly by unanimous
decision."
Das Bild wasn't alone in
characterizing the fight as a whitewash. "WBA/WIBF/GBU female
super middleweight champion Natascha Ragosina (14-0) dished out
a boxing lesson to tough Dakota Stone (8-6-5)," begins the
(brief) report on the Universum site. "Ragosina dominated
every minute of the ten round bout and won 99-91, 98-93 and
100-90."
The fact that the American took the
fight at short notice, which was mentioned in the Pro Sieben TV
commentary, seems to have been forgotten overnight; though
Thomas Wischnewski of SES did note that "despite Dakota
Stone's lack of fitness being evident as early as the fifth
round, the world champion failed to win inside the distance."
Wischnewski refrained from adding
"though not for want of trying" – and with good reason: as Pro
Sieben's experienced commentator Matthias Preuß pointed out,
Ragosina had Stone hurt on several occasions, and held back,
when she could have finished her off. Furthermore, she failed
throughout to get any real weight behind her shots, as Preuß,
again, pointed out. Her technique is badly flawed; she throws
her right hand, on occasion, as though it were a ping-pong ball,
leading with the elbow like a plasterer using a trowel. Unless
something is done about this, if and when she does get a
unification fight with the WBC champion, rather than eating
Laila Ali "for dessert", as she fondly envisions, she'll get
that 'particularly sexy' butt of hers kicked all the way back to
Leningrad!
"Sometimes boxing is brutal and
bloody," Das Bild warned its readers on Tuesday.
"And sometimes it's dead sexy. "
Or it's neither. Or it's both. Both,
they must have felt, on Friday, for the next day we read: "The
beautiful Russian did full justice to her nom de guerre. In
Russia, they call her 'The Steam-Hammer'. But we call her
'Nacktascha'."
And so they do! Or did last week.
(Nine times, I made it, in two days … )
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