DAZN/Channel 5: Harlem Eubank vs. Miguel Cesario Antín & Harold Scarff vs. Jordan Antonio Dujon RBR

Round 2

Antín is stepping through Eubank's flash jab and trying for power shots with either hand. Eubank too spry and quick on his feet, bouncing in and out. Jabs, quick flurries, long-legged strides and timely clinches by Eubank to stall out and never let Antín get much offense going. Eubank stuns Antín with a dart-in jab on the mouth. Long rights skewering the body by Eubank from outside.

10-9 Eubank

20-18 Eubank

 

Round 3

Another hip-grab takedown. Commentators joke that we have "switched combat sports" again. The round remains wild & wooly, with Eubank dancing around and Antín lunging in, only to get gathered into a near-clinch and then spun away so that Eubank is stood behind him. The ref finally has a word with them in the final minute, after letting things rage out of control for far too long IMO. Eubank popped in most of the few clean shots in the round, fast jabs between tie-ups. Antín not going anywhere, though, still in there giving it a go.

10-9 Eubank

30-27 Eubank

 

Early impression: honestly, Harlem looks to be, while quite a bit more feather-fisted, fairly well more skillful than his cousin Christopher Junior.

 

Round 4

Antín keeping at it, and persistence pays off. Eubank spends the better part of two minutes jabbing, dancing around and playing snatch-and-release. Antín slices his way in and starts to work on the inside, peppering Eubank with several consecutive jabs and drilling rights on the bridge of the nose and shaking off his clinch attempts. Eubank settles things down and circles away jabbing the body.

10-9 Antín, close

39-37 Eubank

 

No indeed... that was anxious times for him in the fourth and that's without Antín really laying anything on him all that clean on the button.

 

To be clear, that was limited to "more skillful at figure-skating around the full ring & jabbing on the go". CEJ is a far more complete fighter to be sure (tougher and heavier-handed for starters)

 

Ay, on the DAZN feed - the fifth round just ended (halfway into stool break now)