BT Sport: Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna vs. William Hutchinson & Ellis Zorro vs. Hosea Noah Burton RBR

Madness, this one's the co-main?

 

Round 1

Fast and furious start, both teeing off with heavily loaded rear-hand shots, thrown in teardrop fashion up high to crash down past the guard. Both men slightly hurt early. Turns being taken setting up stone-skipping rights past a jab from medium-long range. Hutchinson controls the middle of the round for a minute-plus, but Maderna clobbers him with thirty seconds left. Both nick each other with jabs on the mouth before tying up and spinning in a tight waltz.

10-9 Hutchinson

 

Round 2

Maderna starts the round out aggressively, pumping out shots coming in -but walks into a backfoot check-jab and is dropped early. He's up and circling away, lobbing jabs and 1-2s himself but not looking as strong or confident as the Brit. The jab of Hutchinson finding the mark a bit more often, but he's missing plenty as he tosses out bunches of them as range-finders. Hutchinson also whiffing on big right hands, but is backing Maderna into the ropes and making him jump in to clinch. Maderna clips him with a right hand, but is caught in a bear hug and hit with a rabbit punch.

10-8 Hutchinson

20-17 Hutchinson

 

Round 3

Hutchinson is pressing in behind the jab, but Maderna picking most of those off now, pinched between his gloves or nudging aside with his inner wrist as he steps around. Maderna with some 1-2's from a crouch but getting blocked himself. Very quiet round, neither man scoring much. Grazing right by Maderna just before the bell.

10-9 Hutchinson, close

30-26 Hutchinson

 

Round 4

Hutchinson feints a jab and delivers a plunging windmilled right hand into Maderna's temple and drops him VERY hard as Maderna was trying for a wide counter left hook. Maderna tries beating the count but shaken up and rightly waved off.

KO4!!!

 

Gonna be honest, wasn't blown away but Hutch skill-wise. He's clearly a level above Itauma overall, especially in the chin & power department (thus a far better result against their common opponent Maderna) but I'm not sure he's a superior boxer. Quite a bit sloppier, looser puncher and more defensively careless.

 

Was just having a cheeky look at that myself, obviously his chin isn't cast iron but the loss to Lennox Clarke to me looked more the result of just horrible positioning & ring IQ, and that cocky habit of carrying both hands low.

 

Just watched the slow-motion replay...clutching his skull, no less.