Livebloggin': Marroquin/Valcarcel on FSE

It is Theron Johnson; FSE’s on screen graphics have been down up until round 3.

Round 1: Ruiz Jr. 10-8
Round 2: Ruiz Jr. 10-9
Round 3: Ruiz Jr. 10-9

Ugly fight. Ruiz is walking forwards with no jab and lands the right hand repeatedly over the top of Johnson’s porous defense. Lots of punches behind the ear. Johnson goes down on a punch when off balance in the first and is hurt pretty badly on a few occasions. Club fight level, at best.

Round 4: Ruiz Jr. 10-9
Round 5: Ruiz Jr. 10-9
Round 6: Ruiz Jr. 10-9

Club fight. Fat dude winging in Ruiz Jr. vs. guy who is boxing terribly. I have this 60-53 unofficially for the final score. Probably that’s what it will be.

60-53 x3 for Ruiz Jr. And….yeah. This dude is somehow 13-0.

Next up: Jose Roman vs. Alejandro Rodriguez at lightweight. Roman has a 6 inch height advantage, both are 23 years old.

Round 1: Roman 10-9
Round 2: Rodriguez 10-9
Round 3: Rodriguez 10-9

Roman has a really nice left hook to the body. I really like that part of his game. The rest of it though: Shame, honestly. Ducks down and negates his height totally. Doesn’t really jab to keep distance and just lets in Rodriguez so he can wing hooks. Rodriguez is there waiting to be hit with the uppercut and it doesn’t happen. Rodriguez is in sparring partner mode and is still managing to take rounds because he’s landing the better punches, as far as I’m concerned. Weird, tough to score fight.

Round 4: Rodriguez 10-9
Round 5: Roman 10-9
Round 6: Roman 10-9

Roman hits so much harder that shots that land on the arms feel like they should count more than Rodriguez landing clean on the face to no effect. Roman is just not doing a damn thing in this fight. When he comes forward, it is so wild. He’s getting defensive looks from Rodriguez that are confusing him completely. Why walk back to the ropes? Why not pump the jab? Or move a little? I can’t believe that Roman is 6’0’’ as the tale of the tape indicated, either. Roman I think landed 2 punches to Rodriguez’s 1 in the 5th and 6th combined, so he wins those rounds.

Roman is reminding me of Samuel Miller right now: prospect with a record that screams “big puncher” and he gets on under the lights and is a light punching boxer. Horrible fight.

Round 7: Roman 10-9
Round 8: Roman 10-9

Roman with the first left hook to the body since the first round in round 7. Then it disappears again. I look at him and I think none of what he’s doing is coming natural. It is all requiring a lot of thought and he is slow to develop what he’s going to do in the ring and to react to Rodriguez.. Rodriguez doing less than nothing offensively. I have Roman winning 77-75 and expect it to be a lot wider for him.

And its on to the main event. Carlos Valcarcel is 12-3-4, Marroquin of course is 20-1. OH GOD LAWRENCE COLE IS THE REF.

Round 1: Marroquin 10-9
Round 2: Marroquin 10-9
Round 3: Marroquin 10-9

Is Marroquin actually from Germany? He has that classic Euro amateur style down: Straight up for the most part in his stance, works off the jab, nice straight punches. Valcarcel touches him with the jab sometimes, but rarely does the second punch behind it ever come, much less land. Marrowuin’s punches seem to be adding up and Valcarcel was looking a little shook up at times by the combination punching. Not very competitive. There’s times when this is looking like Ward/Froch in terms of it being in close and yet somewhat technical and completely one sided.

Round 4: Marroquin 10-9
Round 5: Marroquin 10-9
Round 6: Marroquin 10-9

Marroquin held the head of Valcarcel in round 2 and started throwing punches. In round 4, Valcarcel tries to work inside and gets warned by Cole for not breaking when instructed. Never change Lawrence Cole. Valcarcel does know where he needs to go to win the fight though. I mean, he’s trying hard to break that distance down and absorb shots if need be. And absorb shots he does. Fast forward to round 5, and Valcarcel punches Marroquin on the break. We get a bro-hug. This fight is going 10, isn’t it? Marroquin had Valcarcel pinned against the ropes in the 6th and just threw and threw and it wasn’t remotely close to ending this. Ugh.

Round 7: Marroquin 10-9
Round 8: Marroquin 10-9
Round 9: Marroquin 10-9

More of the same. Totally outclassing his man here. If you had an opinion before the Frankie Leal fight, it shouldn’t change after this. Same guy.

Round 10: Marroquin 10-9

100-90 Marroquin on my scorecard.

I care so little about discussing this fight that I will tell you instead that Don George/Librado Andrade was cancelled because of a ring size discrepancy. Hilarious, isn’t it?

And now the official cards are in. All 3 show 100-90 for Marroquin. Rematch with Leal, please. First fight was good enough anyhow.

thank you very much for the RBR and analysis :)

In a related note, what do you guys think: is Marroquin heading anywere at this rate? He’s been getting in these long arduous fights lately… really unlike other “blue-chip” propects who blow their competition out of the ring in a few rounds.
This time last year I thought he was going to be much better than I do now.