FightNation: Jeyssa Marcel vs. Leiryn Daniuska Flores Bravo RBR

83.33% is a very high KO rate for a woman.

13.33% (Marcel's) is more commonplace.

 

Close 1st, Marcel may have just nicked it with light mobile cutie-pie counters. Flores threw hard but mostly hit glove or air.

 

Ref warns Flores for forearm-ramming early in the second round.

 

Flores dropped her hands and stuck her chin out to pucker a kiss in Marcel's direction, baring her gumshield, and ate a left hand lead for it but seemed unfazed.

 

Ref warned Flores again in the fourth, for headbutts.

 

Marcel has too much defensive craft, footwork, and reach to really give Flores much of a chance to force a brawl and get a stoppage here.

We're into the sixth round and it's a zigzagging potshot fest, with no end in sight.

 

Flores started touching homegirl up in round eight, but too little too late.

I'm expecting scorecards in the 78-74 range. A one round shift either way is fine. A draw is too generous to Flores while a shutout is too generous for Marcel.

 

Official cards:

78-74
74-78
77-75

Décision partagée (SD) for...

Flores, wow!

 

Call that a successful day for Team Venezuela in France...

They sent in four big underdogs and ended up going 1-1-2.

 

In those match-ups, the fighters representing Venezuela had a combined record of 63-27-3 and those representing France were 33-1-1.

 

...cards so totally obscure the RBR op can fall asleep in the middle of the co-main event and finish up several hours later on tape delay with nobody the wiser if they weren't checking posts' timestamps.