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They are showing highlights of Brant vs. Murata with analysis.

 

RM looked so deflated...both during the rounds themselves and especially when sitting on his stool. Like he couldn't wait to go have a good cry in the showers and go home.

 

Mohammed Kani vs. Kevin Julien Bertogal, 6 rounds @ light middleweight

 

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Round 1

Bertogal is snapping his southpaw jab and slinking along the ropes, jerking his neck in time with his jabs in the opposite direction so he is stretching himself from head (dipped leftward) to right fingertips. Kani patiently watches and slips the jabs with some elastic upper-body movement, barely shifting his legs, just turning like a sundial. As they lather up a rhythm now, Kani scores with quick reach-in jabs and 1-2s, sometimes right-hooking off the jab. Bertogal tries sashaying in from his flank and driving a jab into the cheek after drawing it up from his right hip but Kani routs him with a sidestep and chases him out with a triple jab dusting the face of Bertogal.

10-9 Kani

 

I was going to say, Bertogal appears fairly slick & crafty for a guy with a 6-27-4 record...which explains why despite all those losses he was only ever stopped once.

 

Round 2

Bertogal is circling anti-clockwise, using lots of head-fakes and twitchy jab feints to get Kani to reach in with a jab & overhand left combo, just to miss and have to quickly reposition to square up as Bertogal materializes almost behind him. Kani only able to make contact by thrusting his right foot out as far as he can while maintaining balance and planting it with his knee bent at a right angle in a lunge, piking a jab into the body. Bertogal is batting down the headhunting jabs & distance-exploring combos of Kani while circling and scrubbing his lower mandible and sides of his neck with his jabs while circling him rapidly, holding both arms low, cradled at his belly as he goes.

10-9 Bertogal

19-19

 

Round 3

Bertogal is making Kani work at cutting off the ring and rendering him look ineffective when he just lazily over-extends. Kani reluctantly starts using his feet more, taking quickened baby-steps inside and leading with big right hooks that pin Bertogal's left glove to his face, setting up big clubbing lefts. All power shots from Kani as he scurries forward now. Bertogal unable to fend him off with his light jab or sweeping right hooks off the jab. Kani building up an offensive rhythm now.

10-9 Kani

29-28 Kani

 

This isn't rock 'em sock 'em robots or anything but a very interesting game of cat and mouse. Halfway in, feels like it could swing either way, and with multiple outcomes - Kani becoming just the second man to stop Bertogal, or gassing and getting flummoxed with the lack of motivation to keep applying pressure or maintaining a high enough volume to win the last few rounds...or even getting stopped if he is harboring glass...or, most likely (but least interestingly), cruising to a UD.

Who around here was recently saying that except at the elite level there's no such thing as decent southpaw vs. southpaw match-ups?