ESPN: Mark DeLuca vs. Ramsés Agatón & Jason Quigley vs. Daniel Rosario Cruiz RBR

10-9 MDL, nice left hand on him.

 

Round 2

Agatón is hit with a shoveling left on the body and one more up top, DeLuca repurposing the weapon rapidly on the fly. Agatón down. Long right jab stuck out by Agatón, not touching anything. DeLuca moving his upper body and head and working the body, pumping the jab out from the chest at his fellow southpaw in a crab-walking stance. Fluid stuff from DeLuca. Agatón is slashing down with right hooks fearfully as he backs up, hoping it will happen to sync up with DeLuca's head position as he comes forward, no such luck.

10-8 DeLuca

20-17 DeLuca

 

Which fight?

 

Round 3

Agatón is pushing the right jab and hooking off it. DeLuca is blocking everything or standing too far out for Agatón to reach him. DeLuca is twisting his body away to make Agatón lunge and miss with a left hand lead, then blocking his right hook. Body shots by DeLuca. Head clash as DeLuca is bowing forward, and cut on the right eye of Agatón. The physician has a look. Agatón wants to continue (fair dinkum, he could escape with a NC here, but he'd rather give himself a chance to win or lose trying). Time in. DeLuca is jabbing the body. Agatón is throwing a right jab up top and windmilling a left hand. Time out again, checking the cut. 17 seconds on the clock. Ref and physician let them finish the round, but they need to complete four to go to a technical decision. Uneventful last few moments. A couple of body jabs for DeLuca. Another jab and high sailing left for Agatón, blocked.

10-9 DeLuca

30-26 DeLuca

 

This won't go 10 in any case, with how much the officials are obsessing over that cut. NC (barring a KO by either, I suppose) if this doesn't last three minutes, TD if so.

 

Round 4

DeLuca with a right hook downstairs, Agatón lands a low blow right hook of his own and bizarrely suffers a two-point deduction. DeLuca is doing a little bit of a GGG shift on the way in, jabbing with the right, in-stepping to rearrange his respective position with the feet, jabbing with the left and throwing a right cross. Agatón is lancing out a couple of hard left hands up top, fighting hard in what he may consider his potential last chance to land something big and score the upset. DeLuca forced to shy away, covering up. DeLuca is landing a right jab on the clavicle and brushing the very tip of the chin with a quick right hook.

10-7 DeLuca

40-33 DeLuca

 

Bernard & Bernardo irate upon viewing the replay - it was actually DeLuca's right hook that strayed lower than Agatón's, yet Agatón got hit with the unjust 2-point deduction. Academic, though, because a 9-9 round for DeLuca (10-9 minus the point if he were properly docked) still leaves him way ahead if this goes to a TD, which it seems inevitably destined to soon.