Volodymyr Klitschko on Saturday evening in the German city of Mannheim was defending his IBF heavyweight world champion title, defeating American boxer Ray Austin by technical knockout in the second round.
The spectators who came to this fight waited too long for the start of the main bout, so they were very disappointed that it ended so quickly.
Moreover, this evening the audience in the "SAP" arena gathered was substantial. Lennox Lewis arrived, promoter Don King came, whose neighbor in the first row was Franz Beckenbauer.
The fight began with Ray Austin entering the ring first, who to "rapper" music started jumping, which did not look very respectable and resembled a dance of a wild aboriginal tribe preparing to sacrifice someone.
Then the German public booed the US anthem. And everyone listened to the Ukrainian anthem holding their breath - it was sung "live" by Ruslana, who specially came to this fight.
The fight began with reconnaissance, and Klitschko Jr. was in no hurry, calculating the distance. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian managed to reach Austin's head with his left twice in the first 3 minutes.
The American tried to jump under the Ukrainian with raids and dives, which brought him no result.
In the second round Volodymyr went forward more forcefully. At 1.27 min. Klitschko presses Austin into the corner of the ring and lands a straight punch to Austin's head, after which two more side punches with the same left, and Austin collapses onto the floor of the ring, and the referee sends Volodymyr to the other corner so he doesn't finish him off.
Austin gets up, and the referee begins counting, but, looking into the American's clouded eyes, he stops the bout, awarding the victory to the Ukrainian.
For Volodymyr this victory became the 48th (43rd by knockout) in his career.
Now Volodymyr will wait for offers to hold a fight for the unification of world champion titles.