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

[superheavyrhun]

Salem Bouaita's corner have pulled him out at the end of the round, and Munroe's work has paid dividends, and Bouaita was never in the same class as the hard punching Monroe.

8 weeks after Munroe's title victory over Martinez, he makes a successful first defence.

There were some bizarre machinations in the french corner there, with Bouaita laughing at his corner during rounds, and arguing between the rounds. something was amiss, and the official explanation is that Bouaita had an injured arm.

Yeah right.

Great win for rendall.

[superheavyrhun]

Comments:

Rendall Munroe said of the mandatory fight: "It was tough. He came here for the payday really, he kept holding all the time. My coach told me to keep pushing forward, and that's what i did. I've shown I can box in different styles now too. I had to keep my head on the game and do what I do. In the last three rounds he didn't throw a punch."

Frank Maloney also criticised the European boxing authorities for giving Bouaita a shot, saying: "It's an absolute disgrace that he's an European mandatory challenger, he just kept holding, and the ref should have thrown him out of there for that. The authorities should have a look at their rankings if he's the number one challenger for the European Super Bantamweight title. Rendall's doing well and he can go on from here."

[Saddo]

Great work as always SHR

[killersheep]

Thanks Rhun!!

[HattonTheHammer]

great performance from rendall

frenchmen really came hard early on in the fight but was only ever really able to throw wild hooks in the hope that he would catch munroe with something big early on.

by round 4 onwards rendall was in complete control of a scrappy contest, bouaitia completely dropped his gloves through 6 and 7 almost appearing as though he had no desire to be in their with a man in a different class to him.

PS: Superheavy - what did you think of the napa fight?? bloody sky+ cut out and i only got to see the final 3 rounds!!

[superheavyrhun]

great performance from rendall

frenchmen really came hard early on in the fight but was only ever really able to throw wild hooks in the hope that he would catch munroe with something big early on.

by round 4 onwards rendall was in complete control of a scrappy contest, bouaitia completely dropped his gloves through 6 and 7 almost appearing as though he had no desire to be in their with a man in a different class to him.

PS: Superheavy - what did you think of the napa fight?? bloody sky+ cut out and i only got to see the final 3 rounds!!

The Napa fight was fairly decent, but it wasn't a great fight, because there wasn't much movement for most of the fight, with each man content to lean on each other and throw shots and look to dodge, so it was a bit one paced. However, both men landed with short hooks which looked like they could be hurting each other, but their KO records showed that the smart money would always be a points result.

[HattonTheHammer]

great performance from rendall

frenchmen really came hard early on in the fight but was only ever really able to throw wild hooks in the hope that he would catch munroe with something big early on.

by round 4 onwards rendall was in complete control of a scrappy contest, bouaitia completely dropped his gloves through 6 and 7 almost appearing as though he had no desire to be in their with a man in a different class to him.

PS: Superheavy - what did you think of the napa fight?? bloody sky+ cut out and i only got to see the final 3 rounds!!

The Napa fight was fairly decent, but it wasn't a great fight, because there wasn't much movement for most of the fight, with each man content to lean on each other and throw shots and look to dodge, so it was a bit one paced. However, both men landed with short hooks which looked like they could be hurting each other, but their KO records showed that the smart money would always be a points result.

fairly convincing for napa as well wasnt it, 2 of the judges scored it 119-109 which suggests all but a shut out.

For a guy who is barely 5 foot he certainly is holding his own in that division!!

[superheavyrhun]

Another decent weekend's boxing done from the British side at least...I'll wash the stickiness off of this one and let ODLH and Forbesy take the attention. After all, that's what Golden Boy dreams of is the attention after all.