LIVE update: France Roosters are 3:1 up against British Lion Hearts British Lion Hearts Yafal lost the opening fight of the card. Last bout of the card is up next. Heavyweights in action Dimitrov against Nyika. What a fun fight. Dimitrov stuns Nyika in round 1. Nyika stuns Dimitrov in round 2 twice. Nyika stuns Dimitrov in rounds 3 and 4. Dimitrov stuns Nyika bad in round 5 once and was close to stopping him and stuns him second time and is even closer of stopping Nyika but fails to do that due to lack of stamina. Dimitrov started fast and relentless in round 1. Was chasing Nyika with Nyika settling for a counter puncher role. Dimitrov stunned Nyika with one punch. Nyika was settled in round 2 and started to land on Dimitrov stunning him twice. Nyika was doing all the same in the round 3. Dimitrov was visibly tired but still was landing here and there. Nyika was landing more and more shots but didn't have power and punch output to seriously hurt Dimitrov. Nyika dominated 4 round but got himself tired and was throwing lesser punches for the whole round. Dimitrov gained second breath in the round 5. He was surging forward with his new found energy, throwing hooks and power punches. Dimitrov found a success with his power punches, hurting Nyika. Nyika's fast feet helped and he got away from trouble. But Dimitrov hurt Nyika gain but this time more badly. But Dimitrov couldn't stop him because of lack of accuracy. At that point Nyika was out of breath and blowing fast. In all less than impressive performance by Nyika. France Roosters beat British Lion hearts via 3:2 score. Good start for Roosters but crushing start for Lion Hearts.
British Lion Hearts will face rather easy task in Croatian Knights next but will face Italian Thunder twice in a row after that.
Both France Fighting Roosters and British Lion Hearts are in European group. Italian Thunder and Croatian Knights are two other teams in this group.
France Fighting Roosters returns on February 16 against Italian Thunder team. British Lion Hearts will fight Croatian Knights on the same date.
I have a question, why US don't have a team in the WSB? Bad decision by people who is in charge of the situation.
I missed the yafai but when watching the McCormack fight, the commentator mentioned about the judging, was there a case for Yafai winning?