Erik Skoglund took 24th straight victory – Aftonbladet

Nyköping. Derek Edwards became a tough opponent but Erik Skoglund is still unbeaten in the professional ring.

When it became the toughest Skoglund made his best game ever.

– Absolutely fantastic. An incredible atmosphere. An incredible match, in fact, says Erik.

The 24-year-old, he has already won 24 straight wins as a professional boxer at light heavyweight.

– I have to analyze this game first, but it is definitely among the best so far. It was really cool. Edward came to does battle and he was incredibly tough. He received some really heavy blow, but he stood stool and leaned on throughout the game.

Exploded suddenly

Erik Skoglund dotted with a straight left and again from round one. From round six he exploded suddenly with several tough right kind middle of the head of Derek Edwards standing stool beaten.

– To a large extent it was plan A, which held all the way. He ran on vänsterjabben. I never needed to use plan B which was to meet up with him in the close control. I won rounds at a distance and could sit back in the clinch and relax.

– It was part of the tactic. To work a lot with the Left in the beginning of the game and save the right for about half the game and come up with an unpredictable hard right. Vänsterjabben is good and also the right sledgehammer sat on a couple of occasions. I’m really impressed. Above all of that hard head, he has said Skoglund.

In 2015, Erik Skoglund boxed twice in his hometown Nykoping. In the last gala, he had to walk the first full-length title game in Sweden late in 1968.

– The last time was a historic event. I will probably never get to experience something similar. It was so incredibly important not only for me and my career but for the Swedish boxing. We had been given dispensation for twelve rounds, I owed the sport to do it and then I went and worried me every day that I would hurt me, to backs would go up. I hardly dared to warm up before the match that

I would feel something.

“More fun match”

This time he could enjoy more of the mood of Rosvallas smaller arena. And the audience got to see a much better match than twelve round switch in September.

– Significantly more fun boxing match now. Both to implement and to watch. It was not a strike but I need rounds. An injury hit year like this when I was away half the year I’ve still got 22 rounds, says Erik Skoglund.

His winning streak makes him approaching major title matches.

– Now it gets little Christmas food and rest before I go back to the gym and build. I really love all the Christmas food.