Simon Kean vs. Steven Butler RBR

Kean smart, throwing hard corkscrew rights at the body. Santos flailing at him with overhand rights up top and left hooks on the body while collapsing atop him, exhausted and bleary, clinching. Santos buying some time, clinging to Kean, smacking the body with his free left. Ref forcing breaks every few seconds. Kean maybe a little punched out? Huffing and puffing and getting backed up by hard body jabs from Santos diving in between each clinch. Diving lead straight on the body, hook up top by Santos, rocking Kean a bit. Santos is put in a headlock and DDT'ed into the canvas by the ropes. Ref is furious with Kean, you can tell he's contemplating taking a point. He doesn't, just gives him a stern glare and calls time-in once Santos is up & situated. Kean is hooking with both hands at point blank, smothering himself a bit, clanging his wrists off the sides of Santos' head. Kean shoves at Santos with both arms while backing into the ropes. Kean very tired.

10-9 Santos, nice comeback

 

Barré gave Santos the seventh, has it 68-63 Kean.

 

and its over night night santos lol

 

Oh damn, that'll do it. BIG kayo there by Kean. First 1-2 knocked Santos across the full ring, backing unsteadily into the ropes, second caught him bang on the frontal lobe, and then Kean followed up with a solo right hand that absolutely crushed Santos. Follow-up left hook as he was already crumpling barely grazed him and was immaterial.

 

he will get ko'd badly if he ever gets to top 15 top 10 level fight.. his defence Is not very good.

 

This was a pretty big step up for Kean, looking at his record. By far his biggest W to date.

 

How is Canada acquiring such a good heavyweight prospect scene.

 

Ignore that previous stoppage on Santos' record; I remember that one, it was strictly due to injury (Santos rolled his ankle early in the fight and it was all downhill from there. He should've pursued a rematch with Martz by now to correct that ugly blemish on his record, as he is honestly much better)

That means his only previous legitimate defeat was to unbeaten Irish prospect Niall Kennedy via SD.

This is a huge win for Kean, relative to his previous level of competition.

 

It showed. Kean struggled a bit there. I thought Kean came pretty close to being dropped.

 

Boxrec says Santos did rematch Martz and that Santos won.

So you are correct in your judgment.

 

Okay, for walkout bout, random Canadian vs. random Pole with a combined four pro matches under their belts, I don't really need to stick around...gf is calling me to bed. Adieu!

 

Oh lol, good for him. That fight was his last time on American television (Martz I, that is), would be good to see him get back on and get some exposure as he's generally quite entertaining - but suffering a brutal KO loss across the border will probably hurt the momentum he built up over the last couple of years (and his chances of lining up any bigger fights). Hopefully that can be rebuilt though.

 

Yeah the Kennedy one was tight and could have gone either way - Martz was a fluke injury and score was settled in the 2nd fight. As you said for all intensive purposes this is the first time he's truly been bested as a pro.

 

Kean seems to have the basics well enough(good amateur pedigree) but is a bit stiff and muscle bound there's some cause for concern for his chin if his amateur career is of any indicator. Still... He'll do for a HW prospect and it would be silly to write him off, but gut feeling is that he'll be KO'd at some point at top 15-20 level.