ESPN: José Pedraza González vs. Mikkel LesPierre & Albert Laron Bell vs. Mark Vincent Bernáldez RBR

Bell's idols growing up that he 'molds' himself after were Muhammad Ali, Roy Jones and Floyd Mayweather (the Juniors, in the latter two cases, naturally ).

That is both the most uninspired cliché stock response imaginable as well as virtually nonsensical in terms of melding all three disparate (and in ways, at times, paradoxical) styles.

 

Hadn't even put the rest of that all together yet!

 

Two zip tallboi.

 

Very little thinking outside the box in Bernáldez's pressure. You do get the feeling Bell could pretty much outbox him color-by-numbers, from whatever range he saw fit.

 

30-27 Bell

The most that Bernáldez has managed is to graze the inner armpit of Bell with an up-jab - while light patters rain down on him as Bell stays upright and mobile.

 

Worth tuning into the action tonight just for this beaut.

 

Of course Ward is gushing over Bell's performance (which, like many of Ward's, is the pugilistic equivalent of taking your ticket at the RMV and finding that you're 127th in line).