{"id":11219,"date":"2011-06-06T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:37:01","slug":"mikkel-kessler-post-fight-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11219","title":{"rendered":"Mikkel Kessler Post Fight Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s great to be back,\u201d said WBC super middleweight world champion emeritus Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KOs). \u201cFighting in this great atmosphere with my Danish fans supporting me was fantastic. I have to give credit to Bouadla. He was a tough opponent and refused to give up. I was surprised how many punches he could take. I am pleased with my performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kessler stopped Mehdi Bouadla (22-4, 10 KOs) in six rounds in front of 12,500 fans on Saturday in Copenhagen\u2019s PARKEN Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cMikkel did very well tonight,\u201d said trainer Jimmy Montoya. \u201cHe did exactly what he was supposed to do. Bouadla is a tough kid, we knew that, but Mikkel never allowed him to get into the fight and took control straight away. That\u00b4s exactly how I want him to fight. He has big things ahead. The best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promoter Kalle Sauerland called the comeback \u201csensational\u201d. He stated: \u201cThe Viking Warrior is back! It looked like he has never been away. He continued where he left it against Froch and left Bouadla without a chance. I take my hat off to Mehdi, who proved he can really take a punch and that he is an extremely tough guy. But there was no way he could keep up with Mikkel. We will now sit down and look at the best options to get Mikkel the biggest fights out there. The future certainly is bright for Mikkel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouadla, who had never been stopped before, congratulated Kessler on a big victory. \u201cHe is a great fighter and very strong. My game plan did not work. He was punching a lot and hit me a couple of times but I carried on. Mikkel is a great champion and deserved to win, but I will be back.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the undercard, Patrick Nielsen (10-0, 6 KOs) continued his rise to the top with a third-round TKO victory over Joe Rea. Nielsen knocked his opponent down with a huge left in the second. After two more knock-downs in the third, Rea\u00b4s corner threw the towel. \u201cIt was fantastic to fight at PARKEN Stadium,\u201d Nielsen said. \u201cThis is a great win for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on the undercard, Kim Poulsen knocked out Tarik Sahibeddine in the third round, Kasper Bruun clinched a unanimous points victory over Jay Morris, Edmund Gerber outpointed Zack Page and Dustin Dirks stopped Juan Nelongo in the fourth.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s great to be back,\u201d said WBC super middleweight world champion emeritus Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KOs). \u201cFighting in this great atmosphere with my Danish fans supporting me was fantastic. I have to give credit to Bouadla. He was a tough opponent and refused to give up. I was surprised how many punches he could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,1245],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-mikkel-kessler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}