Tony Victor James Yoka vs. Armand Carlos Takam & Thomas Faure vs. Daniel Azeez RBR.

Lots of these certainly, but I'll go with Big George Foreman today!

 

Azeez comes out aggressive pumping out the straight left from the orthodox stance repeatedly almost in a jabbing motion before slipping in a few sneaky jabs on the Frenchman one of which appears to have broken at least one of his nostrils and is now pouring claret.

 

Azeez controls the real estate,Faure by virtue of deciding when to stand and fight will control the trading. THat's a weapon still and he tries to bring Faure onto that half-distance where he seems most comfortable, that Tyson distance. But the pattern of the fight favours Azeez - Faure has to take more steps and has to fight off the backfoot which is a bad looke ven if you are good at it. You can lose rounds you are doing well in unless you are really good at weaving punches. In this case, Azeez looks to be really wearing Faure already and although I think Faure did well in the third, i'm going to give the close round to Azeez because he was pushed back, loses all points for aggression, is not winning meaningfully in punches landed, though he did have a good final thirty seconds in that round.


Azeez:1,2,3,
Faure:

 

Round 1: Faure, 10-9
Round 2: Azeez, 10-9
Round 3: Azeez, 10-9

 

Round 1: Faure, 10-9
Round 2: Azeez, 10-9
Round 3: Azeez, 10-9
Round 4: Azeez, 10-9

 

You can see the Marvin Hagler influence on Azeez. This is a good performance so far, disciplined. Deployed as they are , Azeez would win most of these rounds all night - it will remain the same until Azeez gets fatigued (and assuming Faure isn't) or until Faure does something to change up the pattern.

Faure sets out to outfight his man in the final thirty seconds though - and I think a huge effort shades him this round.


Azeez:1,2,3,
Faure:4,

 

Azeez has narrowed his stance up in the fifth a bit, dominates the first round with a zinging right hand that has lost no vigour with the work-rate. Faure seeking the corners like he might bea ble to hide, then moves on to the next one before he can get pinned. Better work from Faure with a minute remaining but he doesn't have the power to keep Azeez off him I don't think. Same goes - Fuare is getting broken down but is not yet distressed and he's shipped quite a lot of punches. Bad round for the Frenchman!


Azeez:1,2,3,5,
Faure:4,