Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk vs. Murat Georgievich Gassiyev RBR.

Round 1 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 2 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 3 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 4 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 5 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 6 Vorobiev 10-9
Round 7 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 8 Ponomarev 10-9

Vorobiev is landing eye catching counter hooks, but still Ponomarev's activity is having the final say, he's constantly pumping out jabs, one twos and rights, anther close one, but I prefer the volume from Pono, Vorobiev's counters are nice, but just not enough.

 

Round 1 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 2 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 3 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 4 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 5 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 6 Vorobiev 10-9
Round 7 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 8 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 9 Vorobiev 10-9

Almost a 10-8, dominant 9th for Vorobiev, he put a vicious beating on Ponomarev, many refs would have stopped this, Pono took several violent clean lunging left hooks and overhand rights flush, damn his chin is very solid, he never went down, even recovered and was coming forward, but his worst round by a mile.

 

Round 1 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 2 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 3 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 4 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 5 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 6 Vorobiev 10-9
Round 7 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 8 Ponomarev 10-9
Round 9 Vorobiev 10-9
Round 10 Vorobiev 10-9

Vorobiev landed teh cleaner work, over reliant on his left hook, Pono still pressing forward and doing effective work, even getting Sergey on the ropes and landing a clean flurry, but Vorobiev closed stronger flying Pono's head with some looping hooks, then showboating at the end of the round like he knew he had it in the bag. Not a good look.

97-93 Ponomarev

96-94 or 95-95 are fine as well.

But in my opinion, Vorobiev gave up far too many of the early rounds to win this, it was close, but a Ponomarev victory to me anyway. You guys give it a watch and leave your scorecards. I'm interested to seeing them.

 

Doesn't look like it, at least not Saturday he wasn't, he wasn't working Ponomarev's corner, this fight was early in the card, and Abel was there, so there was no reason to miss it.