Óscar Andrés Rivas vs. Ryan Rozicki & Terry Geffrard Osias vs. Joaquin Adrián Murrieta Lucio RBR

Buntsma is absolutely pounding Menoche around the place here.

 

They did. But there are a couple of differences here.

1) They went through the trouble of recruiting people who wanted to fight in the division, made a top 15 which had been in place for some time, and the guy fighting for the title ranked #15 in those rankings. This is absurd, and shows that THE WBC does to think that this is a real title. Get me Romanov now, please.

2) On of the two heavyweight champions, a man who made himself a legend in 19 fights, is fighting underneath this limit, so there is no raison detre for this at this time whatsoever. Maybe ten yeas from now.

 

Oscar Rivas has had a somewhat interesting career.

As an amateur managed to go to the Olympics, beat guys like Andy Ruiz, Kubrat Pulev and Mike Wilson, but smashed by guys like Hunter, Cammarelle and Glazkov. So a decent career.

As a pro it took him a while to get his big money fights, got fights with Washington and Mansour cancelled due to eye problems (somehow he doesn't have this problems for some reason )

Koed in Jennings in the final round in his best career win, a fight I had him losing.

The got his fight opportunity against Whyte in the UK and all honesty got screwed big time: Whyte popping dirty, ref helping Whyte and glove last minute change.

And now two years later he will have the chance to become a world champion in the so called ''Bridgerweight division".....

also isn't this technically the Undisputed Brigerweight championship since the WBC is the only organization which recognizes the division?

 

Wow first robbery of the night

 

Jumped in at the 3rd. Menoche didn't do that badly in the 4th, landing some nice counters through the first 2:30. Buntsma closed strong and looked to take the round back, so if the fight proceeded according to everyone's report over the first two then Buntsma's probably unlucky to not get the verdict.

Too bad Buntsma's glove touched down, because he could easily have gotten a draw in a fight he clearly was expected to lose.

 

Well...38-37 is somewhat defensible as per my previous post, if you give Menoche benefit of the doubt and place greater emphasis on the facf that Menoche probably landed the better single shots during the first 2:30.

That said, you could have called the third 10-8 for Buntsma, even without a KD. Menoche just got labeled in that frame.

 

You have to feel sorry for Buntsma - that should have been a clear 38-37 in his favour, very easy to score.