I’m just hoping it’s still Tessitore and Atlas tonight. I have this fear every ESPN fight will be called by the Flores Brothers.

Big step up…

And the fight they show is two no-names? Oh well…

Jermell Charlo vs. Frederico Flores Jr. in welterweight action. It’s 8 rounds.

These guys might as well fight in a closed gym because this is a depressing atmosphere. Charlo trying to back Flores away with a jab. After last Saturday I’m quite sure we all want to see a Flores get knocked out.

Well it’s working. Left jab by Charlo. Flores is a little more aggressive but he’s hardly landing….now he has with a flush right hand landing on the 19 year old, Charlo.

Flores pulled away from about 1:30 of the round onwards.

10-9 Flores

He’s not horrible there, so I’ll live

BJ Flores is going to be the studio guest tonight. Sure why not? You knew that would happen. At least it’s not in the commentary booth where he’s terrible.

Good left hand against the ropes by Charlo. Flores connects with an overhand right. Tactical fight so far. Both men picking their spots. Flores consistently chases Charlo around the ring and he just missed with an uppercut. Solid left hand to the body by Flores.

Final minute of the 2nd round. They stalk each other in the center of the ring with 20 ticks on the clock.

Right hand by Flores to end the round. Little closer than the last round but I still give it to Flores.

20-18 Flores

BJ Flores will be on the Roy Jones undercard. Not surprising, but not thrilled either. I think that’s the day Scott’s getting married, so I HAVE to watch it.

Good left hook right away by Charlo who now backs Flores towards the ropes and they clinch. Now a right uppercut connects for him.

Charlo is a good boxer for his age. Has an impressive jab and is now starting to dodge some of Flores’ punches, which aren’t the fastest in the world.

10 seconds left and Flores gets a glancing jab to end round 3.

I give it to Charlo. Not an exciting fight. Bring the tomato can vs. Wilder in.

29-28 Flores

Punch stat tracks show Charlo is more accurate but Flores is throwing and landing more. They’ll whore out Fight Night Round 4 again in a few and Tessitore says the reviews are apparently good…just like that right hand just now by Charlo (I know how cheesy that was….-1 for that Floresesque commentary).

Charlo has to learn how to work inside soon. His preference as Teddy said is to box outside and just work the jab. Right hook is blocked by the arm of Flores. Oh look another jab by Charlo. He is really successful throwing the straight left.

38-38 Even

But all the rounds were close, and he’s not leaving a memorable impression. The fight isn’t bad, it’s just not good either.

Will be featured on the undercard.

Charlo goes to the center of the ring and throws a left jab and right hand. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Good two-punch combo passes Flores’ guard and now he’s just been caught by a left hook. Probably one of the better punches tonight.

30 secs left and Charlo has improved since that less than stellar round 1…..yeah.

48-47 Charlo

Teddy’s scorecard has it 49-46 Charlo and I guess you could go with that because Flores is just being busy doing little with what he throws.

Flores is just throwing and throwing and is in “Blind Squirrel finds Nut” mode. Right hand lands to the top of Flores’ head. Flores begins to work insides and Charlo gets in an uppercut to tend the round.

58-56 Charlo

The mouthpiece just fell out of Flores’ mouth after Charlo landed a strong left uppercut. The ref calls for time and puts it back in….time to box with some fighting sprinkled in.

GREAT left hook by Charlo stopped Flores right in his tracks. Knees even buckled a bit there. Alas I doubt anyone will taste canvas tonight. Flores has no answer for the jab or left hook. This is by far Charlo’s best round.

68-65 Charlo

Flores is trying to go postal and NOW HE IS HURT!! WHAT?!!! THEY STOPPED THE FIGHT?!!!!! WHAT?!!!!!! HE WASN’T THAT HURT?!!!

Flores’ mouthpiece went out on a good Charlo punch and the ref just said stop? Come on that’s nonsense.

Charlo TKO-8

A couple of weak shots go in but Flores was still willing to fight and then the ref just stopped it.

Hmmmmmm

Up to 215 1/2.

Boom. Right hand by Wilder. Arnold is dinged already with Wilder’s shots. Arnold continuously ducks hie head while throwing…and bang there’s the knockdown on a right hand. And there’s another 1st round knockout for Wilder!

Wilder KO 1

The right just grazed the back of his head. First time he’s KOed someone with his left.

I’d rather ESPN just swallow some pride and politely ask Sky to use their feed. A professional man like Darke (who is fantastic on soccer as well) is much preferred over last week’s disaster. And even Tessitore.

If anyone wants to RBR that it’d be appreciated…about to eat soon.

Yeah I’m definitely going to leave.

He fumbles for about 30 seconds. He needs to learn how to answer that kind of question, with the knowledge that anything he says can be used against him in negotiations later on. Hoya’s charismatic and all, but I’m just not under the impression that he’s all that swift.

So my Apple keyboard died and now I’m on one of those rubber rollout keyboards you see hackers using in movies like Live Free or Die Hard. My RBR for tomorrow is gonna be subpar. this thing takes some getting used to.

Walton comes out ot hte middle of the ring, absolutely going crazy with body movement. Jacobs pops out a few jabs, while Walton seems to be intend on getting inside, but isn’t really throwing punches. Walton is very compact and Jacobs has a distinct height advantage.

Walton does manage to get inside a couple times, but he only throws one punch and then clinches. He isn’t going to get far doing that. Jacobs is controlling the distance with his jabs, and Walton throws a couple of big roundhouse hooks to the body. Jacobs comes back with a nice quick 6 punch combo – not much on the punches, but it highlights the speed and talent difference between these two. Jacobs finds his way back to the outside again, and whenever he gets there, he’s able to control with the jab, throw an occasional right, and rattle off the occasional combo. Walton misses with everything he throws from the outside, and then comes in and throws one hook to the body. That pattern happened at least 4 times in the round.

Anyway, it was a wide Jacobs round.

10-9 Jacobs

They get out to the middle of the ring, Walton opens up and fires a couple of hooks to Jacobs’ head that land, but Jacobs immediately fires back, and lands a half cuff / half push on Walton that knocks him over. The ref calls it a knockdown, which I guess isn’t a horrible call, but it was probably closer to a non-knockdown than to a knockdown.

Jacobs manages to get Walton pushed back up against the ropes. He just throws a bunch of big combinations, every punch in the book coming at Walton, about 20 unanswered in groups of 5. Jacobs keeps moving around, but he’s not throwing enough to keep Jacobs off of him. Jacobs puches Walton back to a corner again, and then out to the ropes. Walton was damn lucky the fight wasn’t stopped right there. In that “exchange”, Jacobs landed about 30 more punches unanswered, about half of which snapped Walton’s head back.

Wide, wide round for Jacobs.

10-8 Jacobs, but I wouldn’t argue with 10-7

20-17 Jacobs

Walton comes out more aggressively to start the round again, and Jacobs goes to backpedaling like he did on the Pac-Hatton undercard. Due to the footspeed difference, Walton pretty much hits air. Jacobs with a few jabs, but his workrate is a lot lower this round. Walton finally lands a couple of nice hooks to the head, and the crowd oohs.

Back out to the middle of the ring, and Walton just doesn’t seem to be thinking. He’s moving his upper body, but he’s standing within Jacobs’ punching range but not in his own. Jacobs pushes him back to the ropes again and lands a few decent shots, with Walton firing back. This was probably Walton’s best round, but that’s not saying much.

10-9 Jacobs

30-26 Jacobs

let’s give him tv coverage

Even though Walton is a lot more compact and very muscular, it’s pretty clear that Jacobs is the physically stronger man. When Walton does get inside, he’s basically imposing his will on Walton.

For the first time all fight, Walton gets inside, and Jacobs can’t push him off. Walton throws a number of bombs in there, but most of them here partially blocked or didn’t land cleanly. Jacobs finally gets turned around and starts fighting backwards, with Walton trying to push his head up against Jacobs’ chest, and Jacobs firing uppercuts up the middle. Walton is still landing punches, but Jacobs is getting the better of almost every exchange.

10-9 Jacobs

40-35 Jacobs.

At least he’s not running backwards and jabbing. I think he’s felt Walton’s power and realizes that Walton isn’t going to hurt him.

Jacobs with a small cut over his right eye. Ref says is was from an unintentional headbutt.

Just as I say Jacobs isn’t backing away, he now starts fighting backwards. He’s throwing more punches than he did in his last fight, but this round so far is a lot more reminiscent of that one. Jacobs gets in the middle of the ring and fires off a nice 6 punch combo. Once again, a lot less on that than on his 2 and 3 punch combos, but it looks good to the judges.

Compubox comes up. Jacobs landed over 150 punches so far, Walton landed 50 on the nut.

Walton back to trying to stalk, but it doesn’t really matter, Jacobs is able to keep peppering him with jabs and right crosses. Walton seems to have tired himself out. He’s not moving his body anymore, and it’s hunting season for Jacobs. He tees off with about 5 combos, one of which seemed to hurt Walton, but the round ends to save him.

50-44 Jacobs

Man, Walton is really getting beaten on at this point.

Walton comes in forward, and now he’s throwing the jab. Amazingly enough, he’s landing with it and Jacobs is missing. Jacobs not doing too much in the first minute of the round. Walton loses his balance for a second and ends up in the unfortunate position with his back against the turnbuckle. Jacobs takes advantage, and throws a number of punches, one of which seems to stun Walton a bit.

Walton is now more into tying up than trying to throw punches. Jacobs is still landing at will, but Walton has a beard, and the point of bringing him in was to get Jacobs round. Jacobs throws a few shoeshine combos, and Walton decides enough is enough, pushing Jacobs back, throwing some hooks to the body. Still, whenever Walton gets close, Jacobs catches him. Jacobs is landing the bigger shots, Jacobs is landing the more copious shots, and he’s pretty much controlling the action, even though Walton seems to be changing his gameplan.

60-53 Jacobs

For the third consecutive round last round, Walton seemed about 15 seconds away from going down when the round ended.

Walton backs Jacobs into the ropes, tries to nail Jacobs, but he just disappears and Walton’s fists get caught up in the ropes. Jacobs is taking the round off a bit, but when Jacobs is throwing, he’s landing, and Walker just isn’t effective.

Walton is stalking a bit, but his hooks keep making wind instead of making hay. Jacobs isn’t throwing too much, but when he does it almost looks like he’s doing padwork with a human pad standing in front of him. I don’t know if it’s a stamina issue or a complacency issue, but I’d rather not see either one at this stage in his career.

70-62 Jacobs.

Gutsy performance by Walton, just outgunned. He got hit a ton.

Jacobs is just SO slippery. Walton is actually doing a good job of cutting off the ring, but Jacobs is still getting out of the way of everything. He actually just pulled something where he was stuck in the corner, and got out before Walker could throw a punch by stepping over Walker’s knee and pushing back into the ropes.

Jacobs now has Walker measured and lands three big hooks to Walker’s head. Walton looks like he’s surviving at this point, hr doesn’t seem to know where he is, and he’s taking a shellacking. Finally, Walker tells the ref to end the slaughter, and that’s it

JACOBS TKO 8

“Have you played Fight Night Four Rounds yet?”

And a lot of them were power shots…

Yeah, right. You couldn’t KO china chinned Herrera.