Found April 22, 2012 on Fox Sports: Olympic gold medalist James
DeGale (12-1, 9 KOs) made the first defense of his European
super middleweight title against Italian former world and
European champ Cristian Sanavia (45-6-1, 13 KOs) via one-sided
fourth-round stoppage in Denmark. From the very beginning it
became obvious that the UK's DeGale was superior to Sanavia in
just about every way. The Italian would march forward and make
the effort to press his opponent, but he lacked the speed to
catch the mobile DeGale and lacked the power to make a
difference in the narrative of the bout. Instead, Sanavia took
quick shots, upstairs and downstairs, from the Brit, easily
losing the first three rounds on the scorecards. The fourth
round seemed to be simply more of the same, but Sanavia would
oddly double over and fall to the canvas up close to Degale and
without a punch having landed. He would get up, only to be
dropped three more times, this time with DeGale actually landing
punches, before the fight was stopped. On t