WSB (World Series of Boxing) - Season 3 ***Champions: Kazakhstan Astana Arlans***

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Olexandr Strets'kyy vs. Aston Brown, middleweights (68-73 kg)

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Maxwell just wanted to clinch and survive, after the 2nd round he stopped trying to win and was just there to spoil. Nice body punching by Lomachenko.

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Originally Posted by tmsbry

He won the fight no doubt, but it wasn't the best Lomachenko out there tonight & maxwell isn't on his level,

Come on, Maxwell was 4 inches taller and was just trying to survive in there. Lomachenko settled in and had him figured out in the third.

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Irish ref, Seamus Kelly.

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Originally Posted by Vysotsky

Ward vs Gvozdyk is the LHW fight i want to see.

Indeed. Hopefully it will happen at one point.


I wonder how Usyk will look today. He has the potential to be a top HW if he carries the weight well.

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The judges are a Hungarian, a Kazakh, and a Russian.

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Round 1

Strets'kyy is miming his right jab coming forward. Slow-motion jabs and lefts working like pistons, getting the feel of the motion as Brown hangs back. Brown is boxing tall on the outside, not engaging, leaning away and keeping the bottom half of his face behind his gloves. A few pawing left jabs by Brown. Strets'kyy nails him with a left and a pole-axe right pressing in suddenly. Back to a jabbing duel, which Strets'kyy is winning even though he's throwing away lots of diversionary misses on the way in.

10-9 Strets'kyy

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All three judges gave it 10-9 to Strets'kyy.

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Stretskyy fought at 69kg / 151lbs at Ukrainian Nationals this year and finished 4th.

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Round 2

Wild exchanges, leading to Brown hugging Strets'kyy. The ref encourages them to separate, and they do without his involvement. Body shots by Strets'kyy, and Brown flings his long arms wide around him once more. Hard combos by Strets'kyy coming forward, throwing to the long target of Brown's body and hooking all the way up to his head. Brown tries to spread his wings out in the way and then either back up behind a turtle shell or move in to grab. Strets'kyy is pushing him around, scoring jabs to the face before Brown can wrap him up. Brown starts to show a left jab but quickly converts it into a grab when Strets'kyy snakes out a faster right jab around it.

10-9 Strets'kyy

20-18 Strets'kyy

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All three judges have it 20-18 to Strets'kyy.

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McGoldrick set a great standard that Maxwell and Brown have failed to live up to.

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Round 3

Strets'kyy is pressuring without ever lingering within striking distance for Brown, keeping himself a thin target and turned aside, stepping and leaning back after each drilling attack to the body. Brown tries to time him with straight tosses to the skull but Strets'kyy is able to roll back with them and stay ever in offensive rhythm by pumping those shadow-jabs.

10-9 Strets'kyy

30-27 Strets'kyy

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All three judges have it 30-27 to Strets'kyy.

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Round 4

Strets'kyy is doubling up his right hooks to the hip, slapping away with them as Brown tries to bodily force him across the ring. Brown is attempting to walk Strets'kyy to the ropes and is landing some jabs and grazing his forehead with his clubbing right forearm now. More hooks to the body by Strets'kyy. They push together, neither taking a backward step, and the heads come together. Bad gash on Brown. 1-2 by Strets'kyy, a bit sloppy and loose, and Brown fires through it with a powerful right hand, rocking Strets'kyy a bit.

10-9 Strets'kyy, but Brown's best even with suffering the butt.

40-36 Strets'kyy