ATG BANTAMWEIGHT TOURNIE: THE FINAL - RUBEN OLIVARES MD15 EDER JOFRE

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Ruben Olivares has won the ATG Bantamweight tournie by way of controversial decision. The key aspect was a fourteenth round knockdown scored by Olivares but which appeared to many to be a slip; while a punch went in, just above Jofre's left ear, it was thrown after the referee seemed about to intervene as Jofre fell to his right as Olivares turned away from him as Jofre held onto Olivares' right glove. The disagreement as to whether or not Jofre was falling or just moving across Olivares when the punch landed seems to have no resolution.

All of this matters because Olivares won the fight by a single point on one card, by two on the other, the third card even; in other words, if the knockdown had not been counted, a three way split draw would have been the result.

This followed a tension-drenched contest, dominated early by the jab of Jofre who began introducing in earnest his right hand in the third; Olivares, who appeared tentative having been dusted with this punch throughout the fourth, began countering with left hands to the body in the sixth and clearly hurt Jofre in both the seventh and eighth with this punch. Hereafter Jofre adapted to a box and move strategy with rounds desperately close throughout,both men failing to score with heavy punches until the tenth when both landed hard uppercuts in another pick-em round.

War, finally, broke out in the eleventh when Olivares finally landed his left hook upstairs and Jofre fired back with brutal bodyshots. Mixing it in close, sniping one-another with uppercuts and short jabs it appeared to be a Jofre round, but another booming Olivares hook made the round, once more, debatable, mere seconds before the bell.

Jofre clearly won the twelfth, Olivares the thirteenth, before the controversial knockdown in the fourteenth; this appeared to light a fire under Jofre who clearly took a dramatic fifteenth from what appeared to be a fading Olivares; the Mexican fired back in the final minute, the two men embracing at the bell.

In the normal course of events a rematch would be required. As it stands, that is not possible - your champion, El Puas!

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