Dan Azeez v Joshua Buatsi

[TIC]

gave the seventh to joshua

[TIC]

gave the eighth to joshua

[Master]

Buatsi landing the cleaner punches and Azeez is allowing him to rest and dictate the pace.

4-4

[TIC]

gave the nineth to dan

[Master]

Azeez wins round 9 with great work rate.

5-4 Azeez

[Master]

Azeez wins a close 10 th

5-5

[TIC]

gave the tenth to joshua

[Master]

Two knock-downs in round 11 but they could be slips but blown it for Azeez.

[TIC]

dan down in the eleventh. looked like a slip & down agian at the end of the round. should be a ten-seven round for joshua

[TIC]

gave joshua the twelfth. i think i have joshua winning by six points

[Master]

Slippery ring spoilt the last few rounds. Azeez tried but was shaken in the last round.

7-5 with 2 knockdowns so Buatsi should win.

[TIC]

one judge has it by six points, two judges have it by eight points for joshua

[Master]

Bloody slippery ring.

[Master]

Buatsi should face Yarde. Nobody can beat Beterbiev and Bivol from our domestic fighters.

Hope it can be made.

[Memphis]

I get Howard Eastman vibes off of Buatsi. Obvious physical similarities aside, he moves like him, he's enigmatic like him. I hope he's not quite as 'enigmatic' as the Battersea Bomber.

Buatsi looked the genuine business when he arrived on the scene. Classy, powerful and with a wise head on his shoulders. He's drifted into something of obscurity lately. By the time he gets twenty fights on his ledger he'll be knocking on for ten years as a pro. His progress has been so slow and so underwhelming, that Yarde has somehow managed to leapfrog him in the UK pecking order by virtue of having the shit beaten out of him twice.

If the Yarde fight is there he should take it. I suspect that Yarde will once again find that his bully boys tactics that overwhelms Pavel from Station cars, will not work on Buatsi and he'll catch a beating again. Other than that, Buatsi needs to mix in quality and often.