Friday Fight Night RBR - Munroe / Napa - Euro and British Titles

[superheavyrhun]

Round 11:

Eamon Magee tells Moffett to stay on top of him. Napa with some good jabs, and is evading a bit more now.Body shots from Moffett, then a left up top. Napa blocking some, but not all. Right uppercut and left hook from Napa, but Moffett wrestles him towards another corner. Napa to the body then a left hook.Napa jabbning, but Moffett shoves Napa to the ropes and digs twice to the ribs. Napa with a hard right hand, before Moffett ploughs forward with two more body shots. Napa clinches, and Moffett doesn't like it. Body shots from Napa, and a couple of good hooks. Body shot and an overhand right from Moffett. Napa jabbing and some short punches and a right catches Moffett as he's slipping. Count, but not at all hurt. Right from Napa.

109-99 for Napa.

[superheavyrhun]

Round 12:

Between rounds, the crowd start chanting Mickey Vann's name, and after the recent announcement that he would be retiring, a nice touch for a great man in British boxing. Moffett pushes Napa back and goes to the body, but he's tried it for 11 rounds and it hasn't worked....so maybe time for Plan B? Napa jabbing and catching Moffett. Body shots from Moffett, but Napa with a body shot to return a right and a left hook. Napa with a right hand. Body shots from Moffett, and he deserves to go 12. Napa slips on some water. Big right from Moffett misses, he knows what the score is. Moffett still trying to the body, and a left hook. Napa with two body shots, but takes two left hooks upstairs. They swap hooks again, and Moffett goes to the body again. Dodges a hook, and lands a body shot on the bell, but it's Napa's title.

118-109 with Moffett getting the last, but Napa is really growing into a good British bantamweight titleholder. And his fourth fight means he takes the Lonsdale belt home for keeps.

[superheavyrhun]

The scores on the doors after that, a decent fight but only an appetiser really. 119-109, 117-111 (way too close) and 119-108 all for Ian Napa.

We've got a preview with Munroe as he's out with the bin truck and doing his work, hauling bins and loading the rubbish truck. Munroe's still working, and shows he's not throwing everything into the boxing basket just yet.

Munroe looks in good shape at the weigh in, whilst Boualita looks less built, although unintimidated.

[Saddo]

oh god i know Napa aint got any power but i thought he would have stopped this guy... this has to be my worst season at predictions

[superheavyrhun]

Bouaita's already in the ring and wearing a french bathrobe. Munroe is playing up his boxing binman image, coming into the ring in flourescent vest, and his whole team are too, as are at least 50 of his fans, maybe even more. Bouaita 6 years the elder, though with a slightly shorter reach. Sounds like there's a great atmosphere there, and Munroe came in to "We Jammin", best intro music of the night in my humble opinion.

Bouaita grinning and winks at the camera, whilst Munroe looks mean. Next up, we got the main event.

[superheavyrhun]

Bouaita gets a fine round of boos as he's announced, whilst Munroe gets a great ovation. Bouaita can't stop smiling, and Munroe can't smile.

Round 1:

Bouaita falls short with a jab, but is coming forward, and takes a hook on the way in. Bouaita landto the body twice, and takes another body shot. Bouaita moving well. Munroe gets in a jab and a hook. Bouaita lands to the body, but takes a jab. Two big left hooks from Munroe, abnd Bouaita clinches.They swap left hooks, and Munroe lands another left. Bouaita has a Froch-like guard. Bouaita slugs wide and to the guard, andtakes another left hook from Munroe. Three hard body shots from Munroe, then two hard hooks upstairs. Munroe taking the shots to land his own bigger blows. Munroe grins.

Munroe takes the opener.
10-9

[superheavyrhun]

Round 2:

At the end, the ref stopped things to pull up Bouaita's shorts. Nice. Bouaita starts with a flurry, but not one getting past the guard. They trade hard hooks to the body on the ropes. Left hook from Munroe. Right looping hook from Bouaita lands, but Munroe digs in with his square on hooks. Munroe catching the head with the right hook almost every shot. Straight right gets through.Munroe missing a fair few, but a left hook lands nicely. Jabs from Munroe, and Bouaita smiles as Munroe falls shorts with a few hooks. Baouaita with long looping shotsto the body,and he's a hard man to pin down. Ref is slow to split up the clinch. Body shot from Munroe, and a left hook on the bell.

Munroe is doing well, though Bouaita is a tough cookie it seems.
20-18

[superheavyrhun]

Round 3:

Bouaita still having trouble with his shorts. Munroe working the jab at the start of the third, and Bouaita made to miss badly. Jab and a left hook, scrappy, but land. Bouaita's hooks tend to see the forearm stricke the side of the hed. Decent short left from Bouaita as Munroe comes in. Bouaita backing off, then looking for long shots. Bit of a wrestle. Bouaita having more success this round, and this has the look of an awkward fight, not exactly a showpiece. Straight right from Munroe, and a good counter left as Bouaita comes in. Another clinch. Jab from Bouaita and a body shot, but takes a shot to his own ribs. Bouaita lands to the body again.

Bouaita takes a share of that one for me.
30-28