Edis Tatli vs. Cristian Morales RBR

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Javier Clear on Twitter had it even through four (2nd & 4th to Morales, 1st and 3rd for Tatli).

Morales clearly won the 5th. Tatli couldn't screen out his looping overhands, getting dinged upside the head while attempting to counter with straights from a hybrid Philly shell/high guard. Tatli not as smooth in transition with the dynamic mode of defense as he was hoping to be. Morales finding him, and walking through his counters.

 

6th and momentum to Edis Tatli, able to defuse Morales' leaping attacks with sidesteps and counter with big cannonball rights off the rear hip, following up with high left hooks to press the advantage and buy some space.

 

Tatli sticking with the shoulder roll defense now, simplifying, able to focus on his offense more. Tatli using quick fade-away steps, kicking off the ball of his lead foot, to dash away from Morales' lunging sorties, catching leather on his wrists or forearms, and quick on the counter. Tatli putting in body work from outside. Tatli walking Morales down, exposing his deficiencies fighting on the backfoot. Lots of posing in the final minute as Morales is shy to exchange, and Tatli conserves energy but remains the ring general, positioning Morales where he wants him with footwork and feints, throwing little but now with the body language of the aggressor.

7th for the Finn.

 

Morales diving in and swiping full-bore across the belly with a bone-saw left hook. Tatli dribbling the jab and chopping right hand off the back of the head when he does. Tatli keeping Morales out with a long wrist-flicking double or triple jab. Tatli puts up a turtle shell and unfurls a light jab between the eyes, then pulls straight back with some fast steps to bait Morales into lunging in with a counter, off-position.

Tatli on a roll, three in a row now, but the eighth was closer than its two predecessors with Morales grazing with some of those body hooks.

 

Morales runs schnoz-first onto a double jab. Tatli lures him into the ropes, spins him, and lands a chopping rabbit punch right from his flank. Tatli is now sticking with the high guard, picking off Morales' short punches at close range while circling him. Wide left hook by Tatli, caught on the back of the glove by Morales. Right hand lead by Tatli, ducked. Morales sways from side to side while still crouching and blindly covered up with his arms folded over the top of his head. Tatli just watches, bemused, not even punching. Morales jumps in, head tilted down, wedging it under Tatli's arm, clinches, and taps him lightly on the kidney with his free right hand. Break. Morales knocking at the front door with the jab and then curling away, doing his own version of the shoulder roll. Tatli now the one coming forward, getting kneaded on the navel (where his belt is hiked up extraordinarily high) by light shoeshines.

Closer like the eighth, but still Tatli.

 

Busy flicking jab outside by Tatli to start round 10. Tatli dancing along the ropes. Morales plowing in with a hard lead right on the gut followed by a can-opener left up top. Tatli getting knocked around, bounced off the ropes, even as he blocks most of Morales' shots...just physically roughed up. Morales applying pressure and coming in behind a double jab. Bobbing and weaving from Morales, never attacking in a straight line, making Tatli consistently miss a counter jab overhead before rising and unloading.

Good comeback for Morales building upon his improvements in the 8th and 9th. He gets this one.

Incorporating the scoring of JC from the first third, makes it 6-4 Tatli entering the championship frames.

 

Morales seems to be going for the KO now.

 

Eleventh cagey, the Spaniard reaching in with the jab in a crab-walk, breaking into a gallop with both heels clopping together as he chases Tatli down navigating the corner, hoping to gain some ground on him. Tatli running. Tatli scores a right hand, and Morales appears to wobble, just his shoe slipping on the logo on the ring canvas. Another right from Tatli, deflected off the back of Morales' bicep, just grazing his cheek. Morales ducking underneath Tatli's spearing rights tossed in retreat, and whacking the body. Tatli fires a 1-2 spinning Morales into the ropes and Morales answers with his own. Clinch, both hammering each other's sides.

10-9 Morales, close. 105-104 Tatli.

 

Morales hellbent in the early twelfth. Furious extended flurries in reply from Tatli, spinning Morales in the pocket. Tatli collides with Morales as they're both jockeying for position, running laterally at point blank range - they both tumble down and Tatli scores a left hook as they're already falling. He thinks he deserves credit for a knockdown, but the ref says no. Morales is forcing exchanges, pumping 1-2-1-2s into the face of Tatli but getting backed off with counter left hooks. Morales having trouble figuring out a plan to get close. Tatli stalling on the outside, waiting, countering with long push-jabs. Morales advances in a sideways trot, left arm curled low around his body, right glove up by his chin, like a Spanish aggressive Mayweather. Tatli keeps his distance and flicks jabs.

10-9 Tatli. 115-113 Tatli.

 

Of the rounds I caught:

5-3 Edis Tatli. So unless Morales swept four in a row to start (which I'm guessing he didn't, since a fan in Barcelona had them split) he doesn't have a case for the Euro title here. Good effort, though.

 

Official cards:

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UD for Edis Tatli.

 

Tatli actually resembles Eduard Troyanovsky a bit. :yep Would be confusing if they ever fought (which actually doesn't sound like a bad match-up, though I feel like Tatli is currently in his proper lane as the European lightweight champ. He could probably be competitive with Troya in a pure boxing match, just not sure he could handle the power..)

 

...and nobody gave a ****. :rofl