Round 8 David comes out like a wild eyed jack rabbit, and doesn't do anything, Rios feinting a little and he runs, he's jogging around, David is too tired to run after him so he power walking like Jason Voorhees, an Rios trips like a Jason victim, doesn't go down though, he corners him pounds on him a little, he scurries away again, David hooks him he's hurt, he covers up in the middle of the ring backs along the ropes, David unleashes a series of hard hooks to the body Rio has his head covered, he runs off, David eats a hard straight left, his head is rocked back, he takes it fine, both men seem tired, Rios lands looping left on David's arm, nothing happens for a few seconds, hook to the gut, Rios fires back off the ropes. Lemieux 10-9
Round 9 Rios comes out aggressive for a change, lands a series of straight lefts, most partially blocked, David fires back a combo Rios backs off and runs towards the ropes, Rios clubs David on the back of the head, tries to push his head down, Rios lands hard straight left, David corners him bashes him with hooks and a few uppercuts, , he runs off David gets him again, lands combo, Rios backs David up lands a one two, David answers with a hard straight right, Rios paws a little doesn't follow up and jogs off like a hyena, the crowd boos, (discover card commercial) David backs him in the corner and goes wild, Rios lands a few straight lefts, David corners him again. Lemieux 10-9 Close
Lemieux is so bad that he lost one round in one of the three cards. Lemieux had to do what he was asked to do by his trainer: make rounds.
Round 10 David not that aggressive kind of tired looking, Rios lands very hard right hook straight left combo, David looked confused for a second and stood there, but he's okay, Rios dancing around trying to lands one twos, David charges him gets him cornered beats the crap out of him some more, rabbit punch, hooks to the ribs and a low blow, the ref warns Lemieux, straight right, Rios swings and misses (Jockey ad) Rios paws a little bit, Lemieux smashes him in the face, Lemieux comes forward eats a straight left, does a little hop in the corner for some strange reason, David following Rios retreating David rips him to the belly, he unloads on him in the corner, Rios decides to stand and trade, the bell rings, David pats him on the head and they hug. Lemieux 10-9 Lemieux 100-90
Rd 1. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 2. 10-9 Rios Rd 3. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 4. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 5. 10-9 Lemieux CLOSE Rd 6. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 7. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 9. 10-9 Lemieux Rd 10. 10-9 Lemieux Really sub-par performance from Lemieux. Once again showing how one dimensional he is. Luckily for him Rios blew many of the rounds where he did the more eye catching work and allowed Lemieux to win them back with sheer activity. Would like to see Lemieux/Stevens, that's a great fan friendly fight. GGG, Jacobs, Saunders, Canelo and probably even Lee have too much much for him. This fight was actually fairly competitive despite the fact Lemieux won almost every round...