In an interesting super middleweight matchup, 38-yeqr-old Ryno “The Lion” Liebenberg (22-8-1, 14 KOs) scored an eight round unanimous decision over 43-year-old former IBF junior middleweight champion Kassim “The Dream” Ouma (29-17-1, 18 KOs) on the Sturm-Szili undercard at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. The larger Liebenberg outmuscled and outworked Ouma, who lost his eighth straight bout. No scores were announced.
IBF Youth middleweight titleholder Simon Zachenhuber (16-0, 9 KOs) won by third round referee’s stoppage against Maurice Morio (8-3, 3 KOs).
Heavyweight Oleksandr Zakhozhyi (17-0, 13 KOs) destroyed Evgenios Lazaridis (17-4, 11 KOs) in the first round. Lazaridis down twice.
Nothing interesting about this fight. Ouma is completely shot and does not belong in the ring.
He’s 43. He’s lost 8 fights now in a row in 6 different countries and hasn’t won one in 6 years. You feel bad for Kasim Ouma because, clearly, he’s just going anywhere he can find a paycheck. He had such a great story and when he was at his best, he was one of the best pressure fighters of his era. He would just tap away at guys, hitting anything he could and then you’d look up in the 6th round or so and Ouma would be completely fresh and the other guy would be dead tired.
Clearly Ouma needs saving from himself at this stage. Probably broke etc etc
Ok, what the hell is Ouma doing still fighting? He was an outstanding fighter back in 2001 until about 2006. He’s been a shot fighter since then. When I saw the name Ouma in this article, I thought it couldn’t possibly be Kasim. He does have a very interesting life story, having been a child soldier in Uganda and defecting to the US after a military boxing tournament. HBO did a real good piece on him in about 2005 and a couple years later, there was a great documentary about him, which I believe was called “Kasim the Dream”.
That was it, you can find the entire documentary on YouTube now.
Sad. I met Ouma’s mother one time in Houston. She had a big T-shirt with her son’s face on it that said Kasim ‘the dream’ Ouma on it. At the time he was still a big deal and fighting out of Houston. I can’t believe a commission would still license him to fight. Scumbags!
Ouma is a prime example of why boxing needs some kind of union and/or pension plan.