This was a mis-match from the first round. Two similar fighters in style, both upright with a high basic guard and fighting behind a jab, but there the similarities ended. Kessler was faster to the punch, more accurate and harder hitting. Bouadla was high on bravery, but that was all he could match Kessler with.
From the opening round Kessler was first to the jab, took very few shots back himself and as it went on his dominance increased as he showed himself to be a level above the Frenchman. Whilst the left jab was prominent early on it was the right hand that did the major damage, and it was an overhand right that put Bouadla on the canvas for the first time in the third. It could easily have been stopped as the punches continued to come in for the rest of the round, but Bouadla made it to the bell.
The knockdown had taken its toll though as Bouadla was static in the fourth and far too easy to hit, being floored again with a right hook to the body. He came out firing in the fifth giving it what looked like one last shot, but though Kessler took a few shots, he gave more back. Finally in the sixth he put an end to it by putting Bouadla down twice in short succession, the second one prompting the ref to wave it off, something that should really have been done after the first.
All in all a fairly easy night's work for Kessler, who showed himself to be a class apart.
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