Dirrell vs St-Juste on ShoBox: Live Results and Round-By-Round Coverage

Yay fights!

Farhood’s top 10 at 168 is………….debatable.

God damn, Romero puts some steam on that right hand.

The black dude from nfl on cbs does boxing commentary??

Romero slaps too much

Romero doing some nice counter work. The bit I’d seen of him, he seemed comfortable countering, and that’s showing here. Right hand from Romero pops Avalos. Avalos doesn’t look super comfortable with this dude, and Romero looks very relaxed. Romero has a bit of a slappy left hand. Avalos gets in a good shot on the ropes. He wants him on the ropes. Romero hits on the break, then the round ends with Avalos knocking down Romero! Romero looked like he almost sat down there. Weird.

Avalos 10-8

Well. That was a fun first round.

Hahahaha – Romero basically “took an ass” there.

This guy is drinking his water from a spray bottle. C’mon man

Avalos comes out throwing to start round two. Romero catches Avalos with a shot to the back of the head. Well Romero DID look relaxed. When Avalos steps up pressure and catches up to him, it’s not so good.

Romero jabbing and kinda … well, this is not the effective backward movement I like. BAHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Romero with a nice right uppercut catching Avalos open. This fight ain’t pretty at all, but it’s alright. Right from Romero. He’s kept distance all round and landed the better shots.

Romero 10-9
Avalos 19-18

Romero getting yelled at to stay at range seems to have gotten through.

I think that may have been one of those I’m cold and go down sometimes in the first round knock downs. Romero looked decent in that round.

Body shot from Romero. Avalos is having a horrible time finding Romero. Avalos not much for opponents who can move around. ShoBox #6 might not be his last.

Right hand from Romero. Avalos missing a ton. Potshot, potshot, potshot. Short left hook counters when Avalos comes in all super low. Then a right hand that Avalos walks into again. Body shot from Romero. Avalos isn’t landing anything clean anymore.

Romero 10-9
28-28

Romero is one relaxed mofo. He’s got a groove going

I had Romero in that round too. He seems to know what’s coming now.

Avalos getting cracked by them right hands

“This is an important fight for Romero,” notes Menefee, blowing my mind.

Good trade with Romero on the ropes halfway into the round. Otherwise this is Romero controlling again. Finally Avalos starts digging to the body, but then Romero lands two left hooks. Romero shooting uppercuts. Jab and a right from Avalos. Not exactly fluid. Nice uppercut from Romero. Avalos turning it on some this round. Closest of the fight.

Avalos 10-9
Avalos 38-37

I’ll give that to Romero too. Even though he seems to be staying on the ropes more than he should be. He almost got dropped again though..

How many languages do you have to be told that?

I’ll give that to Avalos, Romero is playing Avalos’ game sitting on those ropes.

Avalos just winked and made a kissy-face at someone ringside. And now he keeps glancing that way. What the fuck? Is his potential prom date ringside?

Avalos stalking a lot this round, but caught with counters, and now Avalos landing back. Avalos goes southpaw. This fight is a-alright!

Avalos 10-9
Avalos 48-46

This is exactly how I would think a fight between Ke$ha and Too $hort would go…

Avalos hits Romero on the hip and Romero is all “ow my balls.” His balls are huge!

Avalos is so slow. Romero lands in counter a little better than Avalos lands charging. Neither lands that well.

Romero 10-9
Avalos 57-56

Give the guy a water bottle damnit

Haha. This is fun. It’s a kind of shitty fight being fought in a really entertaining way.

The people that say Avalos is in control of the fight are the ones that picked Pacquiao over Marquez…

Romero with a right. And another. Avalos is getting timed pretty badly now. Right hand misses, left hook lands. Avalos throwing. Romero blocking basically every zipless punch Avalos is throwing, but it’s a lot of activity, so he’s probably winning the round now.

Romero standing on the ropes like a damnfool at this point. What the hell strategy is that? Two rights from Romero when he gets back out to center ring, but I’m wondering if he’s tiring too. Those are Fight Night Round 3 tired punches.

“That was a great round,” says Steve.

Personally I prefer when punches land more often.

Avalos 10-9
Avalos 67-65

Romero’s corner telling him the fight is his if he wins the eighth round. Probably not.

Avalos going hard to start this round and just FIRING AWAY! Avalos’ lady fans are like OOH CHRISSY!!!

Avalos eats a left, but he’s just chasing Romero now. Menefee lets us know that Avalos is ranked as high as No. 4 by some sanctioning bodies. That’s a great reason to ignore sanctioning body rankings. Thanks, Curtis.

And now Avalos is tired again. Uppercut from Romero. Romero is going to lose this on the cards because he gives the impression so often that he’s tired and doesn’t want to fight. It’s not because he’s worse than Avalos.

Avalos 10-9
Avalos 77-74

I thought before this show “to hell with it, I don’t feel like actually keeping track of my score tonight”

Now I kind of wish I knew how I would have this scored.

Romero looks totally dead between rounds as his corner assures him this one’s IN THE BAG, BABY!

Great counter right from Romero halfway into the round. Man he looks dead tired but he’s LANDING now. Another big right, then an uppercut gets in. Romero having hsi best round in a while, stinging Avalos repeatedly and making him look bad slipping punches.

Romero 10-9
Avalos 86-84

Please say you guys give this one to romero

Whata goofy fight. Frenetic aimlessness.

Curt blows, funnish fight. Kinda wish i had watched boardwalk empire instead of this though

Romero and Avalos trading bombs, and Romero’s getting the better of that exchange. Lands another right off the ropes. Romero pot-shotting again. Staying in motion. Avalos can’t do anything with that. Avalos throws a bunch of slappy body shots and gets hit with another right hand.

Romero 10-9
Avalos 95-94

No issue with either winning by the same score or maybe 96-93

I bet Avalos gets 99 on one card.

Wish I would have kept score throughout.. Wonder what I would have ended up with.

96-93 Romero
95-94 Avalos
96-94 Romero

Jhonatan Romero by split decision

Good scores.

I’m not surprised. I gave some of those more counter punching rounds to Romero.

Judges from Visalia and Cypress, I’ve lived in both of those cities..

Surprising fight. Immediate rematch wouldn’t be bad for either fighter’s development.

When Froch is there it should be renamed Staredown Talk UP

Showtime’s Staredown is so derivative of HBO’s feature. Why not have them speak back-to-back? More honesty might result, and you get to act like you’re innovative.

How could this guy be number on any list?

I dunno if Don Cheadle can beat Andre Dirrell’s brother tonight.

THEY STOLE MY DON CHEADLE THING! THE BASTARDS!

Dirrell sneaks in with a lead left hook. Looping right hand from Dirrell. Good right from Dirrell knocks St-Juste back, and he felt that one. Dirrell is totally in control. St-Juste with a little left.

Dirrell has the loudest corner.

Another good right from Dirrell.

Dirrell 10-9

Wait why did I think that woman’s fight was on tonight?

or was there a good woman’s mma fight tonight? Damn there are way too many B+ level fights on this weekend.

No huge matchups but basically everything you could ask for without someones mother acting like they know how good Pacquiao is…

Dirrell is just too strong and too fast, it appears. And too aggressive. St-Juste just seems too tentative. Right lands again, and Dirrell chases him wiht a wild left hook after. Left hand from St-Juste. St-Juste lands another good left, but Dirrell lands harder with a counter left hook.

Man, Dirrell can bang. I’m starting to like him more and more.

Dirrell switches southpaw at the end of the round, with teh most insane look in his eyes, and they trade lefts.

Dirrell 10-9
Dirrell 20-18

St-Juste trying to jab to the body. Dirrell waiting on a counter chance. Now we have a standstill. Crowd gets restless. St-Juste steps forward, Dirrell pops him with a left hook. St-Juste starting to make charges. Dirrell dying to counter him. And he smacks him with another left hook. Now he switches southpaw with 15 seconds left in the round. Southpaw 1-2 gets in. St-Juste misses badly on a left hand swing, Dirrell gets him with a left from under.

Dirrell 10-9
Dirrell 30-27

Dirrell drives him back in with right hands. St-Juste getting a little desperate because he can’t get Dirrell to give him many openings. Body shots from Dirrell. Heads clash HARD and both are hurting. Dirrell with a little cut.

After a quick break, Dirrell starts pressing and he’s throwing BOMBS on St-Juste now, and St-Juste trying to tackle him. Wait — St-Juste has a shoulder injury, and the fight is over.

Anthony Dirrell TKO-4

Left shoulder does look bad. No bullshit it appears.

Yeah, that was a really legit shoulder injury. You can see the separation in there.

That looks painful.

He looked bad. That’s the second 40 year old fighter this year have to stop a fight due to arm injury for a reason I can’t see too clearly.