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This one has gone under the radar but interested to see Gvozdyk back after impressive but tragic fight with Stevenson. This reads as honestly easy work for Gvozdyk on paper but hey the bell rings for a reason. 175 is another where any match of current champs makes for a close pick em match up with personal preference being Bivol v Kovalev but rival promotion may lead to Kovalev v Beterbiev. Card should kick off in 3+ hours.
Egidijus Kavaliauskas v Ray 'no relation' Robinson starts it off. Should actually be a good one. What are the odds Ray opens his forehead up.
Southpaw Robinson on the backfoot steady jabbing. Kav doing well to step with him and looking for body shots early. Robinson not shooting the straight left yet. Both waiting to let go, good right hand end of 2nd by Kov.
Robinson mixing well in 3rd, left lively. Kov determined to get to the body looking for jabs and left hooks. Robinson with the options and Kov a bit straight line following for body. Needs to seriously get his hands off
Kov looks like he's trying to pogo early 4th. Bounce bounce bounce but the hands stay home. Goood 1-2 finally forces Ray to move uncomfortable. Robinson steadies with long steady jab and left stick ends round. Kov needs to kick in the door the way this is forming up.
Good exchange early 5th, Kov got him to punch with him. Straight right gets Robinson on ropes followed by left. Better work from Kov upstairs. Easily his best round and Robinson throwing that left not so committal and pulling it.
Robinson back to basic mobile work in 6th with Kav who is taking foot off the gas. Weird round. Kav almost trying to stay center ring countering long left of Robinson. Why
Not sure what Bradley is watching. This is Kavs pressure to make and ffs let his hands go. Ray with the activity and controlling real estate. Not exactly thrilling but Kav can change this if he gets back to body attack
Kav ohh that was ugly ;D. Every time Kav forces the movement Ray is resetting, lost his balance there. It's not like Robinson is laying down power down the middle but Kav is frustrating with lack of attack. Just in spurts. I have Ray up over 8 but gave Kav 8th.
Robinson doing the work in 9th. Kav gets closer then doesn't step to the side and dig in. He's watching and waiting while Robinson boxes and moves. I think he needs to knock him out
Kav really decelerated down the stretch. Fairly convinced Crawfords #1 mandatory just had his ears boxed off by unranked Ray Robinson. Gave him maybe 3-4 rounds. Kav had literally one gear and went passive. Ray won this fight for me
97-93...Robinson...95-95 x2..majority draw. Well one judge got it right :p.
Said it a few years ago, anyone putting Kavaliauskas in with Crawford should be brought up on charges. They're not really trying to still push that ???. Robinson speaks truth on the mic.
Crawford looks huge and sounds half asleep. But he is going to do bad things to Khan.
That fight was boring. It looked like Robinson was fighting scared and Kav didn’t let his hands go.
Accurate summary ;D.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerpuncher
I wasn’t scoring the fight because it just got too boring and I didn’t really care, but it looked to me like Kav won. It seems like there is a split on who thinks who won. It just depends if you liked Kav going forward not throwing much or Robinson fighting not to get knocked out and landing some jabsQuote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliAccurate summary ;D.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerpuncher
Yeh bit of a pick your poison type fight where both never really fully 'committed'. Thought was Robinson doing as he pleased (though unpleasing) majority of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerpuncherI wasn’t scoring the fight because it just got too boring and I didn’t really care, but it looked to me like Kav won. It seems like there is a split on who thinks who won. It just depends if you liked Kav going forward not throwing much or Robinson fighting not to get knocked out and landing some jabsQuote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliAccurate summary ;D.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerpuncher
man they have mastered the long drawn out card. Just glad Teddy found a way to get back on Espn ;D.
Evening guys. Just tuning in. Caught a little bit of Bud talking his head off with Max ;D . Hey... he gets paid to fight... he doesn't get paid by the word. And yes... he's going to hurt Khan, who's already running his mouth.
aloha Tito. How old is Ngumbu ffs :-X
Gvozdyk's clearly the better fighter. Andre calling Ngumbu "Gumbo".... ;D
Ngumbu talk about rowdy awkward herky jerky style. He's letting his hands go. Call me nuts, gave Doudou the 2nd.
Gumbo did a bit better in Round 2. Not sure he won the round though. Gvozdyk hasn't figured him out yet.
Hard to score Round 3. Gumbo acquitting himself well so far. Gvozdyk needs to establish some kind of dominance. Gumbo countering effectively.
This almost feels like 2019 v 1972 but in a good way :cwm13:. Cunning by two different style and formulas. But the Nail is coming
Gumbo ;D.
Whaaaa.....
What is going on, massive cramp? Ref gives him 5 minutes. Very strange
Announcers pile-driving the ref for asking for five. Personally I would've given him the five. What the hell..... they're in the ring anyway. What a lousy finish.
Tessitore (?) sounds like a bit of a dick here. How about trying to figure out the situation-injury first. Not the way anyone wants to win.
I thought the same thing when they gave him five minutes. I was like you can’t do that with no foul. Tessitore did seem to be a bit over the top about it though
The local officials when they were checking him over in the corner before they called it off: "Where's his interpretator?" :)
;D had to go back and look, nice catch. Saw the guy called a quitter afterwards etc but looks like it was legit tear in calf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
I was so fucked up I couldn't log on on fight night but that jumped out at me. I woke up laughing about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli;D had to go back and look, nice catch. Saw the guy called a quitter afterwards etc but looks like it was legit tear in calf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing