4th Round Punch Summary

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  1. shadow111

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    I did a punch summary of the 4th round. It was a pretty low output round so I listed pretty much every significant punch or punch attempt in the round. Both combatants were pawing at each other for a good part of the middle of the round. It pretty much comes down to if you value Ruiz's shots to AJ's chest or AJ's clean shots to the head in the first minute. What impressed me was despite AJ being gassed he still had his wits about him, and avoided / parried a lot of Ruiz's shots. This is a round that really could have gone either way, but with AJ's body langauge and those shots to the chest getting in down the stretch I can see why most see it as a Ruiz round. But you can't forget about what happened in the first minute and the "defense" category. In a close round like this I think a fighter should be rewarded for parrying and avoiding several punches, and landing clean counter punches to the head. Yes Ruiz's several shots to the chest were very effective and scored, but I don't see how they were better than AJ's counter hook and straight right to the head in the first minute. Ruiz outworked AJ and AJ was huffing and puffing the whole round but Ruiz didn't land as many clean eye catching punches as AJ.

    Round 4 Summary :

    Ruiz comes out storming towards AJ to start the round, he throws a 1-2, both are skillfully blocked / avoided by AJ, but Ruiz follows those 2 punches up with a quick left hook that tags AJ and backs him up.

    2:53 left, a right hook by Ruiz looks to be parried by AJ

    2:47 left, Ruiz gets in a jab to the chest, Ruiz ducks under a counter left hook by AJ

    2:39 left, jab to the ribcage by Ruiz

    2:35 left, nice one two by AJ, first punch was blocked by Ruiz but the straight right hand landed to the head, very good punch there by AJ.

    2:28 left, Ruiz jabs AJ sort of avoids it somewhat, seemed to land on AJ's arm but AJ then comes back with a quick little left uppercut, more of a forearm connect then he uses the glove to push Ruiz away. Decent reaction to the jab and counter punch by AJ.

    2:25 left, Jab to the body by AJ

    2:18 left, AJ eats a jab (though he seemed to avoid it somewhat with head movement) but then AJ counters with a beautiful left hook right across the head.

    2:15 left, Ruiz tries to respond with a jab but AJ skillfully picks it off with his glove

    2:03 left, nice jab landed by Ruiz but it looks like AJ landed a jab on Ruiz at the same time

    1:41 left, grazing jab to the body landed by Ruiz

    1:34 left, grazing jab to the chest of AJ by Ruiz

    1:20 left, jab to the body by AJ, then Ruiz comes back with a 1-2, but both punches were skillfully parried / avoided by AJ.

    1:01 left, harder jab to the chest by Ruiz

    0:59 left, another jab to the chest by Ruiz

    0:49 left, grazing jab to the body by AJ

    0:34 left, left hook attempt by Ruiz, parried / avoided by AJ

    0:23 left, good jab to the chest by Ruiz

    0:12 left, jab to the shoulder by Ruiz, counter straight to the shoulder by AJ


    Those were pretty much all the exchanges in the round. If I missed something let me know, but not a clear round one way or the othere when you got one guy landing the two most eyecatching punches of the round vs the other guy landing a few more body shots. Tough round to score, Ruiz may have edged it with activity and those chest shots, but nothing wrong with scoring it to AJ with those two clean shots early + jabs to the body and high level defense.