ESPN: Bryan Chevalier vs. Andrés Cortés & O’Shanique Dominique Williams Foster vs. Abraham Nova RBR

Round 9

Foster is exploiting the wall of fatigue that Nova is noticably hitting. Lots of squatting & straightening up, posing by Nova, nowhere near as much punching as in the first eight. Foster being first, picking at him, creating openings with his jab. Nova tagged up a few times. Uneventful round but of the little work that was done the best was the champion's.

10-9 Foster

87-84 Nova

 

Stats through nine:

Foster 81 of 267, 30%

Nova 80 of 460, 17%

 

Round 10

Foster is hanging back, having a look at what Nova's going to do. Nova makes overtures of having caught a second wind, flurrying in behind a jab, but he is mouth breathing and slow to hoist his arms up from by his sides summoning up those salvos. Foster with a STIFF 1-2 rattling Nova's skull. Foster shaking the right hand after scoring, may have hurt it at some point. Nova now the one clinching as Foster presses in. Nova pops a double jab coming up from a crouch and they clinch.

10-9 Foster, close

96-94 Nova

 

Bradley's wildly exaggerating what's happening these last couple of rounds to perhaps prep for justifying the robbery and/or Kriegel's dumb ass scorecard.

Foster is indeed making a gassed Nova pay for his misses, but the rounds are still close. Foster's gun shy even with a wounded animal in front of him. And it isn't like Nova's not landing anything anymore, just much less.

Commentary making it sound like it's turned into a one sided master class.

 

Round 11

Foster is working his free hands on the body in the clinch, pushing off and trying for a jab and looping right on the head, but hitting just shoulder/arm/back. Nova for his part can barely even move his arms, he's so tired. Just winging slow, soft arm punches. Pathetic compared to his stuff in the first few rounds. Clubbing shots by Nova stumbling forward after the ref breaks up a clinch by the ropes and repositions them in the center of the ring, and Foster bops him with some whack-a-mole counters.

10-9 Foster

105-104 Foster