Solo Boxeo Tecate: Luis Ramos Jr. vs. Joshua Allottey RBR - good fight!

This is on a two-hour delay, so no spoilers please!

 

Round 1

Ramos circles left and lets the southpaw jab fly. Allottey keeps his hands turned out ready to catch the jabs, his feet spread wide apart. Ramos tries to rush in with left uppercuts to the body but Allottey is able to dip back out of the way. They square up and trade, Allottey lands a body shot and Ramos lands one a bit harder. Ramos lands a lead left, misses a jab, and Allottey gets off a counter right uppercut. They hold and hit until the ref says stop. Allottey stretches out cautiously with his left jab and Ramos leans away from it, then runs in with his right jab.

10-9 Ramos

 

Round 2

Ramos reaching with lead lefts and right hooks, not closing the distance quite enough to get near Allottey. Allottey backs into the ropes and Ramos runs in, and is able to land a partially blocked combination before Allottey gets away. Ramos doing some good body work now. Allottey keeping a high guard and jabbing, not turning his elbows in to block the body shots. They clearly have an effect as he backs up to the ropes and ducks forward to hold the punches off. Ramos takes advantage of the proximity to dig an uppercut up through his gloves and on the chin. Allottey gets momentarily off the ropes with a right uppercut of his own. Lead rights landing for Allottey.

Closer round but 20-18 Ramos for the body punching.

 

Round 3

Ramos stays behind his jab. Allottey now leaping in with his own left jab to the body. They exchange body shots as they collide. Allottey has a jab slipped and eats a counter uppercut from Ramos. Allottey getting the worse of the power exchanges but still initiating them. Allottey feints with the jab and leans back. Ramos waits for Allottey to lead and lets his hands go when Allottey is close. Ramos continues to land at will to the body. Allottey himself begins to find some unprotected flesh on the flanks and abdomen of Ramos.

 

Round 4

Both jab, and their knuckles meet - almost like the sporting touching of gloves that is part of pre-fight pageantry except these were actual punches. They are very evenly matched and each is clearly trying to think on his feet to figure out how to gain an edge. Ramos' is the body punching but not by a large margin as Allottey has been successful with it as well. Allottey is dictating both the range and the pace with his long, flexible upper body and wingspan. Ramos grinds his way inside on Allottey, forcing him to the ropes and roughing him up, landing hooks and uppercuts to the body. No less than ELEVEN unanswered uppercuts to the same spot by the liver (with one hook to the ear thrown in early on) have the crowd hollering. Allottey keeps his hands moving but is unable to escape the corner.

40-36 Ramos but the rounds are close.

 

Round 5

Allottey lands a very nice combination - hook to the body, right hand, hook upstairs. Allottey is the busier man now, slapping the sides of Ramos and occasionally throwing in a straight headshot for good measure. Ramos tries to steady Allottey with the jab, but Allottey is circling on the outside and pestering Ramos with long-armed body punches as he keeps him turning. Allottey backs willingly up to the ropes this time and does a bit of an Ali-Foreman act, guarding up and slipping, then hitting Ramos during his momentary defensive lapses. Allottey landing mostly to the body, and Ramos mostly hitting glove.

Allottey finally edged a round.

49-46 Luis Ramos Jr.

 

Round 6

Picking up right where they left off, Allottey assumes his position on the ropes and Ramos obliges him by pressing up against him and trying to land lead lefts to the body, trying to distract Allottey with upjabs. Allottey keeps slapping away at the body of Ramos. They take it to center ring, and both flick out their jab. Allottey steps forward and lands with the right hand - both straight and as an uppercut. Ramos is trying to force the fight back to the inside, moving his hands in short, fast, powerful upward motions. Allottey gets smashed back into a corner and eats plenty of leather, but keeps hitting back enough to not get stopped. Allottey slapping the body of Ramos but taking extreme punishment now in the process; Ramos' punches seem to be getting harder without getting wilder. Hard, hard stuff landing on Allottey, much of it to the body.

59-55 Ramos

 

Round 7

Both miss their jabs for the opening minute, as their contrasting stances and the unwillingness of both to step forward and square up leave them seemingly half the ring apart. Allottey rolls under a Ramos hook and bangs him on the sides of his beltline. Allottey returns to his spot on the ropes and continues to slip and punch. Ramos leans his head against Allottey's and really gets rough, throwing short punches and connecting with a lot of forearm. Ramos really opening up now, taking a half step back and landing a hard 1-2 down the pipe. Allottey hangs on the ropes trying to lure Ramos back in but the bait isn't taken; Ramos seems to have figured out that he's more effective just barely outside.

69-64 Ramos

 

Round 8

Allottey jabs and moves. Ramos tries to stay square with him but can't spin quite as fast as Allottey can toe-glide laterally. Allottey is falling short with his jab but touching Ramos with the tail end of his follow-through right hands - not enough to hurt but enough to score. Allottey yet again plants his flag at the ropes, this time near a corner. He effectively holds Ramos off with uppercuts for a bit, but Ramos begins to move him, into the corner, and then brings out his infrequently used handspeed in combination to throw hard at the ribs and face of Allottey. A dozen unanswered volume punches, alternating rights and lefts from Ramos (about two thirds of them landing on the skull of Allottey) end the fight.

79-73 but not a blowout.

 

80-72 twice and 79-73 are the official scores for Luis Ramos Jr.

 

Light welterweight cofeature: unbeaten 20 year old Omar "Panterita" Figueroa vs. journeyman Julian "Baby" Rodriguez

Round 1

Figueroa immediately on the attack. He looks a bit taller than his listed 5'8", but given his age that could just be an old measurement. He fights calmly, and throws in combination, with a good defense that's kind of a hybrid between a Philly shell and a turtle shell. He is able to transition between orthodox and southpaw pretty fluidly. He is still pretty raw, and shows the awkwardness of youth in a lot of his movement, and could be more patient in his shot selection. He does, however, manage to hit Rodriguez square enough times to get him on shaky legs, and shows a good finishing instinct. Rodriguez escapes the situation with a well-timed low blow. The ref barks at him angrily, thinking it was pretty flagrant. Rodriguez goes back to covering his head and running. At the end of the round, Rodriguez tries to trade body punches with the oncoming Figueroa and gets the worse of it, then rams his head into Figueroa's like a billygoat.

10-9 Figueroa

 

Round 2

Right after the bell, there is yet another foul. Figueroa clutches his groin, and the replay shows Rodriguez crouching down and deliberately targeting the area with a right hand. Figueroa rushes in on him, and Rodriguez traps his left arm between his neck and shoulder after catching an uppercut, so Figueroa just smashes him with several hooks to the body until he can wrest it free. Rodriguez goes down immediately after the separation on a left hook to the body. He gets up and Figueroa pounces on him, smacking him around with both hands. Rodriguez puts his head down and throws low, around the beltline. The ref yells "STOP!" in English as one goes very low, although Figueroa did not appear bothered by it. Rodriguez then fouls him yet AGAIN, this time an uppercut nutshot. After the ref yells and tries to break them up, Rodriguez reaches around him and sneaks in a left hook to the stomach of Figueroa. He then spits his mouthpiece out and shrugs petulantly at the furious official.

Rodriguez is disqualified after about half a dozen fouls including four blatant low blows in just over four minutes of fighting.

 

What a shameless little *******.

Rodriguez waits with a bored expression for them to announce the official result, then immediately climbs through the ropes with a canary-eating-cat expression.

It's just too bad Figueroa couldn't have scored the KO and upped his ratio to 90%...at the end of the day, he still improves to 10-0...and Rodriguez comes into a losing record of now 18-19.