Daniel Jacobs vs. John Ryder - the standalone IB RBR scorecard

Stats through nine:

Jacobs 68 of 199, 34%

Ryder 93 of 224, 42%

 

Round 10

Ryder is carrying his arms low, crowding in by inches, then suddenly flinging his right arm up and in for a wonkadoodle hook. Jacobs can't time his rhythm and is visibly vexed, circling far away from him and snapping out a jab. Ryder smothers him and clatters leather all over Jacobs' arms and backside. Jacobs doesn't like this. Ryder scores a right jab and backs out, then twists to slip some Jacobs flurries. More heatseeker right jabs on the mouth by Ryder, swimming without getting wet as Atlas would say. Jacobs just doesn't know what to make of his awkwardness.

10-9 Ryder

95-95

 

Round 11

Ryder is forcing a syncopated outside-inside rumble on Jacobs. Hook scores for Jacobs but he takes a two-piece from Ryder in the bargain. Ryder sliding in past the Jacobs left jab and bodying up against him, sometimes lapping his tentacles over Jacobs' arms and sometimes surprising him with a tap on the body or uppercut planted on the bottom of the chin. Jacobs wants to get this back to a boxing match where he can work off the jab but Ryder able to avoid it on his way in with ducking & twisting, sometimes just flat out shoulder tacking his way into Jacobs and peeling off just enough to spray leather at him as Jacobs is stunned by the body contact.

10-9 Ryder

105-104 Ryder

 

Rosado has it 107-103 for DJ, giving him the last two consecutive rounds, which I definitely don't agree with. Those were almost carbon copies of Ryder's very good 8th and 9th work.

 

Round 12

Ryder is caught with some jabs and 1-2s coming in. Ryder able to grab and rough up Jacobs a little on the inside, but without the success letting go and getting off shots that he was enjoying in the previous four rounds. Jacobs is now a southpaw, reaching in with the southpaw jab, ducking a retaliatory shot from Ryder, and then landing a left handed rabbit punch as Ryder ducks in. Ryder doing more clinching and blocking than punching in this frame. Ryder tries some body work but lands back around Jacobs' kidney area, nowhere legal.

10-9 Jacobs, close

114-114

115-113 either way is fine.

 

Brit commentators thought Ryder gutted out round twelve. I thought he sputtered out there and didn't produce the same quality that he had going in rounds 8-11... if he did, he's the winner on my card.

But enough of these rounds were close that any cards for either man that aren't too wide can't be complained about.

Official cards:

Vendano 115-113 Jacobs
Fitzgerald 115-113 Ryder
Laine 115-113

SD for Ryder - yeah, that range of cards was perfect.

 

All's well that ends well - the loss prompted Jacobs to retire, which he probably ought to have been doing at this point anyway. The victory propelled Ryder to a stoppage of undefeated Zach Parker (man, Ryder was really in the running for Comeback of the Year in 2022, wasn't he? Nearly shot to hell and picked up his two career best victories in the same calendar year...) before losing the final 16-20ish rounds of his career against heavily favored Mexicans and then calling it a day himself.