Amnat Ruenroeng vs. McWilliams Arroyo RBR

Anthems.

 

Round 1

Ruenroeng steps left, dodging a jab, and lands his long 1-2. Arroyo is jabbing into Ruenroeng's chest and moving in with a quick body hook off the jab. Ruenroeng blasts Arroyo with a straight right lead and left hook on either side of the body. Arroyo walks into a couple of jabs on the midsection and is cuffed around the side of the head with a hook while diving in with a right hand. Arroyo is jabbing in from outside, unable to solve the puzzle of Ruenroeng's superior reach, getting caught with light counter jabs on the forehead on the way in. The crowd is shouting every time Ruenroeng throws a straight combination. Mostly just the jab landing, however. Arroyo gives up on jabbing in and comes in behind a high guard, trying underhanded body shots up close beneath Ruenroeng's elbows. Ruenroeng steps back and counters with a jab.

10-9 Ruenroeng

 

Round 2

Ruenroeng drops a trapdoor jab on Arroyo and steps left. Ruenroeng snipes with rights on the body as Arroyo creeps in. Long whipping left hook up top on the backfoot by Ruenroeng. Arroyo is winding his body clockwise as he comes in, exposing his rear left shoulder to absorb most of Ruenroeng's jabs. Arroyo pops double jabs into the air feeling out distance. Ruenroeng keeps sliding back and tagging him with straights. Ruenroeng is scoring on the body from outside and picking off Arroyo's jabs on either glove. Arroyo rushes in and they tie up.

10-9 Ruenroeng

20-18 Ruenroeng

 

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Round 3

Ruenroeng catches Arroyo leading low with his head, traps it under his armpit and digs a left hook on the side. Arroyo is pushing ahead, crossing his arms in an X at his chin and looking to lean in on Ruenroeng and works hooks. Ruenroeng is giving him a shove-off and scoring with parting uppercuts and then long straights. Arroyo is getting in a few scratches on the body, but the champ is out-landing him a good 4:1. Ruenroeng dances away from a straight flurry, bouncing his back off the ropes and ricocheting diagonally as Arroyo's momentum brings him straight forward.

10-9 Ruenroeng

30-27 Ruenroeng

 

Give him a minute, he will come around.

 

Round 4

Ruenroeng is throwing fast combinations on the guard. Arroyo is covering up and leaning forward, adequately blocking most of Ruenroeng's head shots. Arroyo takes a turn with a few left and right hooks as Ruenroeng pauses his offense, and now Ruenroeng blocks most of them but does eat a hook. Ruenroeng dodges a follow-up windmilled right. Arroyo skims a few on the belt line as Ruenroeng dances away, the cleanest stuff either man is getting through due to solid defensive work from both.

10-9 Arroyo

39-37 Ruenroeng

 

Round 5

Ruenroeng is doubling his jab and putting together right hands and left hooks while circling. Arroyo is clapping in body shots with both hands leaning in. Ruenroeng keeps letting power shots flow with his feet moving, keeping Arroyo turning like a spit. Big left hook downstairs by Arroyo, doubling up with another aimed at the chin but only grazing as Ruenroeng pulls away. Ruenroeng is holding now and getting pounded above the kidney with Arroyo's right glove.

10-9 Arroyo

48-47 Ruenroeng

 

This is a good fight.

 

Round 6

Ruenroeng is making Arroyo expend a lot of energy following him, flurrying on the guard, and then wrestling free of clinches. Ruenroeng himself isn't doing much offensively except for short bursts of straight punching wheeling away. Arroyo down, slip, Ruenroeng shoved him. Ruenroeng down a moment later but that's a knockdown from an angered Arroyo! Unclear, Ruenroeng seemed to lose his footing as Arroyo threw a 1-2-3 mostly over his head while he was already stumbling. Maybe a punch before that hurt him, because the way he fell and his body language on the canvas seems more like a KD than a slip. Yep, Pat Russell counting in the champ's face. Ruenroeng up and clinching.

10-8 Arroyo

57-56 Arroyo