Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Adrián Jaime Estrella & Vladimir Igorevich Shishkin vs. Ulises Sierra Jr. RBR

Round 5

Shishkin is fixated on the right hand downstairs, which to be fair has been the highest percentage shot for him the last couple of rounds. Sierra just keeps twisting around in mid-stride to narrow his body-line's target, and when he uncoils he cranks a double left hook into Shishkin's waist. Sierra has a strong opening minute but starts to wilt as Shishkin clobbers him with a few of those overhand rights. Now applying constant pressure, Shishkin digs with straight rights on the belly and keeps Sierra bouncing off the ropes, unable to step free.

10-9 Shishkin, close

49-46 Shishkin

 

Stats halfway:

Jabs
Shishkin 14 of 63, 22%
Sierra 15 of 127, 12%

Power
Shishkin 88 of 213, 41%
Sierra 36 of 163, 24%

Total
Shishkin 102 of 276, 37%
Sierra 54 of 290, 19%

 

Farhood now has it 49-46 Shishkin - as do Márquez & Tompkins by a different route (they both gave Sierra the fourth, but not the first ...same as my card)

 

Round 6

Shishkin is spamming that right hand, and Sierra is reacting worse & worse to it, and no longer able to consistently steer clear of it. Sierra throwing his own counter 1-2s falling in, but mostly as excuses to drape his arms over Shishkin's and pull him into clinches. Shishkin easily shrugging him off and marching him down, just dealing out intentionally missed jabs like a card shark to gum up Sierra's field of vision while varying the high right hand with overhands and straights.

10-9 Shishkin

59-55 Shishkin

 

Getting closer, anyway... probably seventh.

 

Ergashev has a million Instagram followers, apparently. (the bulk of them Uzbeks, guess he is huge there. FWIW, though, I did look for a page for him on the Uzbek version of Wikipedia today and found that he doesn't have one, though Israil Madrimov does. So, not really sure who is their national boxing hero at the moment...could be that Ergashev is just popular the way Kingry is here, among the young folk..)