Búfalo Boxing Promotions: Alexander Enrique Espinoza Rivera vs. Arón David Juárez Morales III RBR

Round 3

Offense losing some crispness and tidiness on both sides now. Juárez sweeps a left out, nearly doing a condor wing-spread before dragging his fist in towards Espinoza, missing by a mile. For his part, Espinoza not gauging the distance and churning the air with hooks a good foot too low and several inches too distant from Juárez's face. Juárez's right jab getting blocked, Espinoza playing catch and shoot with his lead right and then dashing laterally to reset.

10-9 Espinoza

30-27 Espinoza

 

Round 4

Juárez is getting backed into the ropes, shelling up and going inactive for long periods with Espinoza teeing off. Juárez rallies with some big pendulous left uppercuts on the body which do back Espinoza off and quiet the crowd, but he isn't following up with any clean head shots (just a few half-hearted swipes of his right hand a good ways off from Espinoza's head) and is getting outscored. Juárez picks up the pace a bit in the final half-minute, but is open to counter straight rights on the forehead by Espinoza.

10-9 Espinoza

40-36 Espinoza

 

Round 5

Juárez is leaning over to his left, dropping his face almost to his waist, letting Espinoza rush him with a messy spray of punches reaching out and up, then down and breaking around. Juárez getting in some counter left uppercuts on the body and lobbing a few darts from behind the back into Espinoza's face, but not really capitalizing on all the countering opportunities as well as he could if he settled down. His right jab isn't meant to land, just sort of nudging Espinoza's left arm back to neutralize it.

10-9 Juárez, super close, really not much positive work to be found in either camp

49-46 Espinoza

 

Round 6

Juárez is driven into the ropes with hooks and uppercuts. The crowd is coming alive. Juárez stands his ground and throws southpaw 1-2s splitting Espinoza's guard and then lumps on his flanks with pinball-paddle lefts and rights. Espinoza more consistent, landing heavy-handed concatenations as Juárez loads up on a couple of big punches at once before sputtering and throwing arm punches at the body. Pattern repeats over and over, with Espinoza sitting down harder and harder on his shots, and straightening a forward-curling Juárez's spine with an uppercut at point blank.

10-9 Espinoza

59-55 Espinoza

 

Round 7

Espinoza is landing the right hand over and over. Juárez might be hurt. Or maybe playing a little possum, hard to say. He is wobbling drunkenly every time his bombardment ceases with Espinoza hanging back to catch a breath. Juárez sticking out a right jab but gets himself beached on the ropes. Uncomfortable spot, Espinoza ripping him with body shots. This might be the first installment of these fighters' trilogy not to go the distance. Juárez still ducking and slipping what he can, and relying on earmuffs to screen out the rest - but Espinoza clearly wants this stoppage and is relentlessly pouring the leather on his rival. A few weak rainbow lefts from Juárez in the middle of the ring, not discouraging Espinoza - nor do some very sluggish can-openers downstairs that don't seem to have any steam on them.

10-9 Espinoza, dominant

69-64 Espinoza

 

Round 8

Juárez is getting stamped above the brow with piston rights from the outside, and then scrubbed with uppercut combos up close. Espinoza staying on him, no let-up. Juárez throws his own uppercuts to pry himself a bit of room, and then starts throwing long weak slaps while backing up or angling in to smother Espinoza, but never getting a chance to clinch. Espinoza really has that right hand dialed in, kick-jumping like a jackrabbit off the rear foot to spring-load it.

10-9 Espinoza

79-73 Espinoza

 

Round 9

Juárez is reluctant to get off his stool... uh-oh. Espinoza still looking fresh, hurling 3-2s at Juárez, the hook falling short perhaps by design but aiding his momentum in closing the distance with the follow-up cross. Pawn's gambit. Juárez biding his time, shoring up his strength - and bashes Espinoza with a huge cannonball left! Espinoza buzzsaws in close, unphased, and rocks Juárez slightly with uppercuts. Lots of high guard by Juárez, but he gets hit anyway. Soon his arms become too heavy to hold up and he's just carrying them by his sides, lashing out at Espinoza with a pair of long soggy noodles to desperately fend him off.

10-9 Espinoza

89-82 Espinoza

 

Round 10

Juárez is trying to answer Espinoza in kind with the mirror image of his best weapon, fortifying one spot and spamming the lead left down the pipe. It lands a couple of times, but Espinoza makes the quick adjustment, rolling in sidelong, undulating beneath the jabs and lefts of Juárez and catching him with two-pieces on the face as Juárez shuffles away in retreat. Espinoza landing the slingshot right both on the inside as they grind their shoulders together, and in pursuit. Juárez brushing the body with soft punches.

10-9 Espinoza

99-91 Espinoza

 

Pretty sure it was a UD for Espinoza, but couldn't hear the scores.