By the end of the first round, Cwik was uncomfortable and protesting about being hit on the back of the head. The writing was on the wall. He’d taken some solid jabs and short right hooks and, with his right eye swelling, he was dropped once to the body and as Tiafack – who lost to Bakhodir Jalolov in the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics – flowed in, hooking with both hands to head and body, Cwik was saved from his passive shell by the referee.
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