BCB Promotions: Joel McIntyre vs. Richard Summers RBR

50-45. Both getting tired, someone's bleeding - can't tell whether it's Rankin herself or if that has rubbed off from Holler.

edit: yep, cut on Rankin's left eyebrow, commentators unsure whether from a punch or clash of heads. There was a sequence where they both landed 1-2s simultaneously and then collided, so could have been either.

 

Ref ruled cut from a punch. So if the contest is stopped (not all that unlikely) it would be a TKO for Stone Gold.

 

"Banger" going all-out despite the blood streaming down her face (and obscuring half of her vision). 60-54 to her, obviously trying to put this one away before something screwy happens.

 

I've been anxiously awaiting the inevitable wardrobe malfunction. They're squeezed in there like a couple of golf balls in a coinpurse.

 

80-72 Rankin, eye holding up.

 

South Carolinian just stuck in deer-in-the-headlights mode, at most thrusting out a single jab, sometimes downstairs with a squat. Rankin plowing in with straight combos mussing up her braids every time Holler tries for so much as one hook on the body.

90-81 Rankin

 

It's weird, at times she looks okay, almost even pretty (during her walk-in today, but increasingly haggard since the first bell) and then...you've seen her BR pic, right?

 

100-90 Rankin, doubt there's any doubt how the referee has this unless he's legally blind.

 

Referee's decision:

Kevin Parker scores it 100-90 Rankin, as expected, for the Glasgow girl.

 

...man, that Brummie accent of Ricky's had me doing a double take. He said in the lead-up he was "really excited to do my cocaine" ...took me a good long moment to realize he actually said "cooking", as he followed up by talking about meal-prep.