Joshua Buatsi v Marko Calic - Sky Sports - 4/10/20

[Master]

Buatsi back in control in the 4th with aggressive combinations that put Calic on the back foot.

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[Master]

Buatsi hurts Calic at the end of the 5th round to win the round. Tough fight for Buatsi.

3-2 Buatsi

[Master]

Hard 6th round from both fighters but Buatsi aggression takes it.

4-2 Buatsi

[Master]

Buatsi stops Calic in the 7th round. That was his toughest test of his career against the unbeaten Calic.

[Memphis]

Decent fight, good experience for Buatsi. No idea how the eye damage happened. It looked to have come off of a sustained period of Buatsi pressure, then all of a sudden he's got a bashed in face. Calic did well to target it after that.

Calic was feeling the weight of Buatsi's punches whenever he put a bit of stink on them which ultimately ended the fight, broken jaw or orbital bone maybe?

From the buzz on social media this was a life and death struggle. It wasn't really though was it.

[Master]

Not a "life and death" match for Buatsi but good experience for him and showed us how he can handle a bit of adversity.

Buatsi got hit with a right hand in the first round which marked his face. The bruise on the eye came in the 3rd round after taking another right hand and it visibly hurt Buatsi. First time I have seen him lose consecutive rounds. Calic jumped on him when he saw him hurt.

Buatsi needs to work on his head movement and footwork, he was far too static at times. A world class champion would have hurt him and stopped him. He is a bit away from that level yet but can bridge that gap with more of these tough tests like these matchups.

[smashup]

I'm not as convinced as i was that Buatsi beats Yarde now, seems easy to hit and has poor head movement.
Could be ring rust after 400 days out the ring.
Hopefully we'll see that fight next year but it's tough to call.