ShoBox: Lateef Kayode vs. Matt Godfrey & Chris Avalos vs. Khabir Suleymanov RBR

Round 9

They hook together out of their opposite stances, Kayode's obviously much harder. Godfrey dropped moments later by a left hook to the body. Godfrey takes his time beating the count. Kayode targets the body again with hard right hands, getting Godfrey to sprint across the ring and stare back at him. Kayode walks him down and leans in as Godfrey pushes down on him. Kayode tries to blast the body as Godfrey desperately reaches to keep him tied up. Kayode pushes him into a corner and chops away. Godfrey taking some flush shots to the face, and taps his chest as Kayode backs out momentarily. Kayode then does a little Elvis pelvis. Weird. Both doing more showboating than actual work. Kayode throws some hard rights, to the head and body. Godfrey tries a wide right hook while backing up, very little on it. Kayode now backs up behind a turtle shell, letting Godfrey come to him flurrying.

10-9 Kayode

 

Round 10

Kayode jabs high and hard, but misses. Godfrey can't even land his own counter jab as he simply waves it out with no snap, thumping against the elbows. Kayode leans in as Godfrey works uppercuts and hooks coming forward, making Godfrey's shots pass him by wide and grabbing. Godfrey doesn't even try to straighten his punches out, seeming to be disinterested at this point. Big right hook to the chin suddenly landed by Godfrey but Kayode catches him at the same time. Kayode walks him down, left hand low. Right hand catches Godfrey slipping against the ropes. Cuffing right and left hooks to the back of the head by Godfrey as Kayode ducks down.

 

Judges:

Kermit Bayless 98-90
Sergio Caiz 97-90
Marshall Walker 98-89