ShoBox: Yudel Jhonson vs. Willie Nelson & Badou Jack vs. Alexander Brand RBR

Round 1

Quick jabs by Jack. Brand circles out to the left and floats up a high jab. Jack leaps in and tags Brand with a left hook, sending him scurrying to the ropes. Brand skips out in a circle, hands down in typical Sarmiento fashion. Brand slips some shots on the outside while tracking to the left. Jack jabs straight out at him, trying to pin him on the ropes. Right hand connects obliquely. Brand is dancing around, catching some shots on his bicep and rolling away from others - but his counters are all badly telegraphed and looped over from far out. Jack herds him across the ring with his left jab, and tickles him with a reaching right. Light contact by Jack's jab as Brand continues to circle. Brand puts out a high jab and then cradles his left arm at his hip. Uppercut by Jack, and a quick body-slapping combo by Brand.

10-9 Jack

 

Minus the southpaw stance, the slickness, the quickness, the reflexes, the power, the ring IQ...:yep

 

Round 2

Jack lands his jab while circling in on the awkward Brand, who just keeps slapping his way in from outside well announced. Clipping right hand by Jack. Brand is zigging and zagging around him, trying to collide from angles and roughhouse him, whipping shots on the way in but not landing clean. Jack seems a bit taken aback by Brand's tactics but isn't getting his cleanly.

20-18 Jack

 

Round 3

Big flying left hook by Brand on the way in. Brand is very busy, stuffing jabs in Jack's face and then flapping down with the right over the top. Jack squares up and knocks him back toward the ropes with a right. Clinch as Brand jumps in on him again. Flush left hook by Brand. Uppercuts and hooks by Brand. Straight jab by Jack catching Brand as he ducks and weaves in front of him. Jack keeps jabbing and Brand makes him miss, using some quick ducks and head movement. Brand gives Jack a little tongue-wagging. :tong Jack swings a tired-looking right hand behind a jab and Brand swoops underneath to give him a boa constrictor squeeze and then release. Wild hooks by Brand, keeping Jack gun-shy. Jack tries to lean forward into Brand, but the slippery old Colombian writhes against him and then bounces away. Jack gets Brand's arm trapped under his, and Brand smashes free with rights to the body. Clubbing right up top by Brand.

10-9 Brand

29-28 Jack