Another timeout for some nonsense happening in the crowd, weird stuff.
Essomba 10-9 round 8, 78-74 overall. Braithwaite basically took this round off to allow Essomba to nick it with some infrequent combinations, even...
Braithwaite 10-9 round 7, 69-64 overall. Essomba finally coming on but Braithwaite has his timing and is throwing clean counters in combination to...
Essomba 10-9 round 6, 59-55 overall. Oh no another dire round now. Braithwaite doing very little for most of this round for some reason, Essomba...
Braithwaite 10-9 round 5, 50-45 overall. Finally the action picks up into what I expected which was a tactical and competitive fight. Braithwaite...
Zelfa Barrett in the audience looking chipper, glad to see that worrying business with his leg hasn't materialised into something sinister.
Braithwaite 10-9 round 4, 40-36 overall. Essomba throwing slightly more but Braithwaite increasing his output in turn, nicking a close round for...
Esssomba got a leaky ass cut to the side of his left brow, not going into the eye so he's fine for now but visually not an encouraging sign for...
Braithwaite 10-9 round 3, 30-27 overall. Jesus this fight is a stinker as I feared could happen, Essomba just doesn't like to let his hands go....
Braithwaite is built like he should be able to punch even slightly but you can hear how little impact his shots make.
Braithwaite 10-9 round 2, 20-18 overall. Another standoffish round, Braithwaite trying some combos but Essomba defending very well and blocking...
Braithwaite 10-9 round 1. Nothing much happened by Braithwaite landed a few more by letting go with combinations.
Essomba fighting Braithwaite now in a British title eliminator, I expect a competitive affair from this one.
Yeah as the commentators said they deserve a bonus for that kind of war. Couldn't have been more entertaining for a fight between two non punchers.
Florin got a 77-76 decision, weird ass scorecard but this kind of fight warrants an even round or two.
