Marta Nowak: "The knee is fine, the result is not"
Marta Nowak left the ring in Odesa on the doctor's advice after a cut above the eye in the second round. "It looked worse than it was," she said. "I will be back in September."
Marta Nowak left the ring in Odesa on the doctor's advice after a cut above the eye in the second round. "It looked worse than it was," she said. "I will be back in September."
Three rounds in Lviv were not enough: each fighter took one, and the third was scored level by all three judges. The head judge called an extra round, and Dmytro Savchenko won it on all three cards.
Amara Okafor dropped Marta Nowak twice in the first round and a third time in the second, which ends a bout under league rules. Olena Kovalchuk took every round from Naomi Mensah in the women's main event.
Naomi Mensah used her reach to keep Marta Nowak at the end of her jab for two of three rounds and won on all three cards.
The league's officials spent a day in Kyiv on the electronic console: scoring rounds on tablets, recording warnings and knockdowns, and handing in cards at the bell. Every bout of the season is scored this way, and every card is published.