Gennady Golovkin v Daniel Jacobs - 18/3/17 MSG

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Andy Lee won earlier

Andy Lee W8 KeAndrae Leatherwood… Former WBO middleweight title holder Andy Lee returned from a fifteen-month layoff with an uneventful unanimous decision win over KeAndrae Leatherwood. Lee, from Limerick, Ireland, defeated Alabama’s Leatherwood by scores of 80-72, 78-74 and 79-73. There was not much action in the first half of the eight rounder as Leatherwood (19-4-1) struggled to figure out Lee’s southpaw stance and Lee (35-3-1) seemed in no hurry to push the pace. The middleweight encounter resembled the mannequin challenge more than a fight. Lee finally dialed up his activity rate in the sixth round, putting Leatherwood on his back foot. Over the last three rounds, Lee got the better of the action, mixing in lead left hands effectively with his jab. Neither fighter was down or even hurt during the bout.
Lee had not fought since losing his WBO middleweight title to Billy Joe Saunders in December 2015. Leatherwood had been much busier in the recent past, winning four times in 2016, although all four of his victims had losing records. It would be tempting to chalk up Lee’s performance to ring rust, but his effort tonight wasn’t all that different from his showing against Matt Korobov when he won the vacant WBO title in 2014.


UNDERCARD


A four-round heavyweight bout was won via majority decision by Matt McKinney over Scottish teenager big Jay McFarlane. McKinney got the narrow nod on the scorecards by scores of 39-37 (twice) and 38-38. His record improves to 4-2-2. McFarlane, who shook his head in disgust as the decision was announced, heads back to Glasgow at 2-1.


The Madison Square Garden show opened up with a junior middleweight bout between Serhii Bohachuk of the Ukraine and Cuban-born Yasmani Pedroso. Bohachuk stopped Pedroso to improve to 3-0. Pedroso is now 1-2.

[Kirkland Laing]

Impressive back acne on Cuadras. I'm guessing there's no VADA testing for this fight.

[Spicoli]

3-1 Cuadras. Good scrap. He's been shaking out his arms for 4 rounds though. Carmona is live

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Impressive back acne on Cuadras. I'm guessing there's no VADA testing for this fight.

Looks like his backs been set on fire then put out with a golf shoe

Golovkin v Jacobs fighting around 3.30am UK Time

[p4pking]

Impressive back acne on Cuadras. I'm guessing there's no VADA testing for this fight.

Unfounded! Whenever I get into a routine and train hard I often get bacne as well, it's far from synonymous with using shit.

Good fight so far though, this Mexican isn't bad at all.

[Spicoli]

3-2 Cuadros. Carmona having success tapping his right side in close. 4-2.

Jacobs near 180 Come on man

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Enjoying this fight, starting to warm up a bit now.
Cuadras is coming forward more

[Kirkland Laing]

3-2 Cuadros. Carmona having success tapping his right side in close. 4-2.

Jacobs near 180 Come on man

Is that an HBO weight? I wonder why he dodged the second weigh in but then let HBO weigh him.

[Spicoli]

3-2 Cuadros. Carmona having success tapping his right side in close. 4-2.

Jacobs near 180 Come on man

Is that an HBO weight? I wonder why he dodged the second weigh in but then let HBO weigh him.

Yeh Lamps says Ears the heaviest guy Golovkin has faced and more coming on weight. 5-4 Cuadras

[palmerq]

hbo crew seem to be pushing cuadras quite a lor here.. I think the first 6 rounds were closer than they suggest, good fight in the end, I thnk cuadras did enough early on to get a win... Could be really close though i think carmona did more damage in the end

i think the judges will do hbo a favour and give it cuadras big though :S

[Kirkland Laing]

Impressive back acne on Cuadras. I'm guessing there's no VADA testing for this fight.

Unfounded! Whenever I get into a routine and train hard I often get bacne as well, it's far from synonymous with using shit.

Good fight so far though, this Mexican isn't bad at all.

It's when you see it on guys who've never had a blemish before. Like JMM in his last couple of fights after he hooked up with Heredia.

[CFH]

Can anyone pm me a decent stream?

[palmerq]

Impressive back acne on Cuadras. I'm guessing there's no VADA testing for this fight.

Unfounded! Whenever I get into a routine and train hard I often get bacne as well, it's far from synonymous with using shit.

Good fight so far though, this Mexican isn't bad at all.

It's when you see it on guys who've never had a blemish before. Like JMM in his last couple of fights after he hooked up with Heredia.

cuadras had this in his last fight for sure too.. it is weird..



this fight just got very interesting carmona did a lot of damage there but gave him a rest too with his weird low blows :S.. I think cuadras will recover though andgo on to win the decision.

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Carmona starting to break him up i think

[Spicoli]

4-3 Cuadros. Carmona huge 7th, LB looked to be on thigh but shit shifts . He's hurt him in the body at least 3 times..Cuadras still shaking out his arms

Refs looking to get some insurance