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

[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.

[Master]

Joshua Buatsi rides early storm to secure stoppage victory against Marko Calic in seventh round

Britain's rising light-heavyweight star Joshua Buatsi had to weather a difficult early storm in the opening rounds against fellow unbeaten light heavyweight Marko Calic in Milton Keynes, but the Londoner ruthlessly stopped his foe in the seventh round as he made his comeback behind closed doors after a year out of the ring.

There was a sombre walkout from Buatsi as he took a knee during his entrance in support for the Black Lives Matter movement. And once into the fray he had to battle through the opening three rounds, with Calic landing powerful shots, shipping punishment with his nose bloodied.

Buatsi, though, showed his mettle as the fight wore on. The 2016 Olympic bronze medallist, unbeaten in 12 fights as a professional before this contest, rallied and began an assault on his rival at the end of the fifth round, punishing his opponent with a series of right hands.



Calic came back in the sixth, with Buatsi's left eye puffy and closing, but in the seventh the Briton piled pressure back on the taller fighter, flooring him, with referee Michael Alexander giving Calic a standing count.

Buatsi leaped on Calic from that point, with the referee stopping the fight as the towel came in from the Croatian's corner.

"He pushed me all the way, so credit to him," said Buatsi, who finished in ruthless fashion as the towel came. "It was a long time out, but I'm glad to be back and earn another victory."

Earlier, unbeaten Chantelle Cameron was crowned the new WBC super-lightweight champion after a dominant points victory over Adriana Araujo, who was also unbeaten. The 29 year-old became Britain's newest world champion as she controlled her experienced Brazilian opponent with ease to earn a unanimous decision with three shutout scores of 100-90.

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