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Derevyanchenko is never easy fight
This will absolutely 100 percent be an entertaining fight. Mbilli will burn bright as long as he lasts career wise but he is also pretty cut and dry with approach. Great offence and drive but a sparse record and not hard to miss. Would love to see Serigy finally win a bigger match up. You simply are hard pressed to find a more top quality opponent 20 fight record on another fighter today than the one he has logged.
Derevyanchenko is best recent boxer to not win title. Shop worn now though if Mbilli can stop I will be impressed
Remember the name, Abdullah Mason. We could be looking at the next Terence Crawford.
Christian Mbilli tops the bill in a super middleweight clash against Sergiy Derevyanchenko in Quebec on Saturday night, but lightweight Mason, who takes on Mike Ohan Jnr, is the one they are talking about.
Mason hails from Bedford near Cleveland, Ohio, part of America’s old industrial heartland and a hotbed of fighting. He is only 20 but has already racked up 14 straight wins, 12 by KO.
This will be his fourth fight of the year. His last bout was only a month ago. I love that about him. I fought 12 times in my first year. It’s not about money at this stage. It’s about being busy. And getting experience under your belt.
Like Crawford, Mason is a southpaw. He has the same class and guile as Crawford but is intuitively more attacking. He likes to get the job done, standing in the pocket and moving neatly in and out of distance. He throws neat combinations and rips that backhand into the stomach.
He also has great accuracy, and a dangerous right hook. I like the way he turns the hands when he lands it, really making it stick. Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia and Shakur Stevenson are the ultimate targets, but with kids like him, you need to bring them on at the right pace, but that level is where he is heading.
Our fighter Adam Azim is in that mix too. He would jump in with any of the above now. It is the easiest thing in the world to get the timing wrong. But at some point you have to take that risk.
Mason jumps off the television screen like all the great ones. Crawford won his first title at lightweight against Ricky Burns in Glasgow a decade ago now. Last week Crawford fought for the first time at super welterweight, a full 19 pounds heavier.
At 5ft 9ins, Mason has the frame to follow Crawford through the divisions too. Indeed the eight-rounder against Ohan is two pounds above the lightweight limit at a catchweight 137 pounds, perhaps pointing to an early step up.
Ohan’s old man, Mike ‘Bad Man’ Ohan was a former sparring partner of Marvelous Marvin Hagler. But that’s as close as either father or son have come to greatness. Not so Mason, I’d wager.
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Abdullah Mason vs one Mike Ohan Jr up...don't go to the fridge :-X
Ohan campaigned a lot at 147 and now down to 135 first time in career. Well, that's not good.
Ohan dropped square on his arse via left uppercut and rises unsteady but makes it out of the round.
Ohan dropped again start of 2nd and corner waves it off during count. Mason sharp as ever finding all the holes. Not sure this one did much for him though.
Great self-awareness and mature attitude on Mason. Mental focus as sharp as his punches.
Missed the Osleys Iglesias fight v Sena Agbeko who was last seen being batted out by David Morrell last December. Osleys dropped him in the 1st and finished him in 2nd.
Evening. ;D
I gotta check the TV. I thought the telecast began at 10 pm.
You guys good and dried out over there ;D ? Kicks off in 5 minutes. Shouldn't be much of an undercard with goliath Makhmudov v Guido Vianello and let's just say feels like Top Rank is cutting bait on ol Guido :-X. Or Mark Kriegel talks for 1 hour.Quote:
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Is interesting how things have changed. Years ago premier top prospects like Abdullah Mason would be "must see TV" and the co main network spot would be his. Just for the casual fan "exposure". But they go for mammoth heavyweights with two guys just about coming off losses and Mason is left back on the app undercard. Guess they took opposition into consideration. Maybe we'll get a mini classic here :-X
Makhmudov still with that weird neck thing he does. Constantly stretching himself and cocking his head. Guido with a mobile and solid 1st.
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Originally Posted by SpicoliYou guys good and dried out over there ;D ? Kicks off in 5 minutes. Shouldn't be much of an undercard with goliath Makhmudov v Guido Vianello and let's just say feels like Top Rank is cutting bait on ol Guido :-X. Or Mark Kriegel talks for 1 hour.Quote:
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Yeah we're good. Just got our power back today, if you can believe that. ;D
So good to go. Don't know anything about Vianello, but I remember Makhmudov from that shocking loss to Kabayel.
Makhmudov has the footwork of Easter Island. Getting caught clean being beat to the punch so far.
That right hand cannot miss Makhmudov. And now it's coming under and over. Guido showed big brass with Agbeko and has stayed on the attack from 2nd. Makhmudov left eye is almost slammed shut, that cheekbone may be mashed.
This might be over between rounds
Guido's more than game. That right uppercut is there whenever he wants it. Makhmudov looking very beatable.
Makhmudov out for 4th bit surprised they are going on. Makhmudov with one eye and constantly being beat to the punch. Makhmudov just trying to time one huge boulder and hope Guido gets careless. 4th to Vianello too
Ha ref taking a looooong look at the eye when breaking them up. This would be over if he wasn't the ranked guy :-X
Guido cut now inside corner eye and going to bet my paycheck it was from a head or shoulder :-X. 5-0 Guido
Damn... that eye is gruesome. :o
Jebus, Guido swinging from the fences. Makhmudov losses a point for clinching and mauling ? because he's completely out of ideas.
They gotta stop the fight now.
His corner and officials are failing the fighter. Sure, we've seen 1 eye fighters, sometimes no eyes, but this is target practice.
Complete incompetence by commission here. Horrific looking eye AND they refused to count a KD he took. This fight has zero business continuing, and they all know it.
The ringside doctor did the exact same thing... held up the same three fingers... asked the same question... got the same answer... but THIS time he stopped the fight.
His ears must've been burning after he allowed the fight to continue the first time around. :rolleyes:
Complete favoritism in that one. Great showing from Guido he totally dominated, and idiot Dr finally does his job.Quote:
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The main event should be a firefight while it lasts. I like Derev... but he's at a massive disadvantage, IMO. Age doesn't help him either. I'm thinking a mid to late round stoppage.
My very well. He also marks up pretty quick. But in some spots Mbilli has glimpse of early Bryant Brannon. Maybe it's the hair ;D. Tons of holes massive pressure but yet to see him tagged or worked on by anyone top/mid level. But you can't erase wear and tear. Father times waits for no man.Quote:
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Ahh. Eye of the Tiger is co promoting this one. Yeh sure is strange how that last fight was allowed to go on :smilie_whisper:
Mbilli right hand clean on the chin. Derev soaks it up and moves. Mbilli a literal on your chest fighter but also looking to body. Fun first round!
Derev timing Mbilli mid 2nd clean right hands. Mixes in uppercut. Not sitting down on them yet. Oh right hand by Mbilli rocks Derev. Tale of two momentums but Mbilli just took it all back in 2nd.
Derev boxing extremely well, showing some defensive moves and picking his own shots. Great fight so far.
Holy shit! A torn left bicep? Damn... this early in the fight. Gonna be a long night for Derev.
Mbilli right hands then Derev boxing clean and jarring with his right hand. Bradley claiming Derev ruptured his left bicep ???. He won that round his sharpest one.