Fields is pawing away, and Releford keeps nailing him with clean counter shots. This isn't exactly a marquee fight, but it's damn sure fun to watch, as expected. This is middleweight pace. Fields' nose has been bloodied. Fields' left is just slow as hell, he might be hurting. Releford with another hard shot just before the bell.

Releford 10-9

Releford keeps getting stuck in the corner, where Fields tries to unload, but Releford is able to escape every time. Releford didn't land the same amount of big punches he did in the first, but I'm giving this round to him again.

Releford 10-9
Releford 20-18

Fields 10-9
Releford 29-28

Fields is just pawing, pawing, pawing, and Releford does nothing but counter. I give this round to Fields. It's been even so far, and entertaining, but technically, it nears the absurd.

Fields 10-9
38-38 through four

Releford has switched southpaw, and that might throw Fields off. Fields throws an uppercut to the body, maybe low. Releford throws hard at the end of the round.

Fields looks tired as all hell in the corner.

Releford 10-9
Releford 48-47

Fields with an assault in the corner, but Releford gets away. Fields is swinging away but it's just not working as Releford is too slick. I don't think Fields has really hurt Releford even one time. Fields seems like he's getting cranky with his inability to put Releford on the canvas.

Even round, 10-10
Releford 58-57

Wally goes on a strange tangent about how Fields is white and race sells in boxing and I wonder if he's trying to get relieved of his duties with the Versus Network.

Releford lands a sharp blow early and Fields just keeps pawing. Fields is exhausted, and what the hell does Releford have to lose by opening up and going to the knockout? Fields takes this one.

Fields 10-9
67-67 through seven

Fields 10-9
Fields 77-76

Fields 10-9
Fields 87-85

Releford is looking like he's going to come in over and over, but then he kind of half-asses it and backs right out again. Releford with a sharp right. He's got a minute left to score this KO. Releford threw a big right haymaker and missed, and that might be it. Releford is fighting here, and so is Fields. This is a finish that deserves the applause it's getting. Fields staggers Releford with a left hook at about :20 left. We end it with a flurry. This was a really fun fight, and earned that ovation.

Fields 10-9
Fields 97-94

Tye Fields unanimous decision

After watching Tye Fields, watching light flyweights is absolutely stunning.

Feeling-out round. I have to wonder if Solis actually wanted this fight. Hard to call this one, so I won't!

Even round, 10-10

Still not a lot of action, but Solis is a little bit busier and establishing his ground a little better. Grigsby has yet to do much of anything.

Solis 10-9
Solis 20-19

Nice jab from Solis, followed with a really solid combo that hurts Grigsby. Grigsby looks like a tentative old man tonight, and it appears as though Solis is starting to smell blood.

Solis 10-9
Solis 30-28

Solis 10-9
Solis 40-37

Solis 10-9
Solis 50-46

Solis 10-9, again
Solis 60-55

But then they made Rocky V with Tommy Morrison, and it was absolutely awful, the one Rocky that no Rocky fan even likes, except for me on the same level that I like Smokey and the Bandit 2: I love the original, and there are enough traces of it in the shitty sequel that it maintains a little charm.

(The pretty coolness of Rocky Balboa isn't an issue here, for the record.)

But Rocky V was, for a long time, the last Rocky. What a bad taste in the mouth that left on the series, you know?

Solis 10-9
Solis 70-64

Solis 10-9
Solis 80-73