Gabriel Rosado vs. Glen Tapia RBR

Round 5

Rosado using lots of jab feints and darting inside to do work in spurts. Nice crowbar uppercut splitting the guard of Tapia with Rosado shooting up from a crouch directly in front of him. Tapia's nose gushing blood like a geyser now. Rosado charges Tapia into the ropes and unloads bombs. Robert Byrd steps in and separates them, having a look at Tapia. Still fighting back and defending himself. Tapia firing jabs with his feet planted and Rosado just leaning to either side to slip them. Rosado keeping both hands low and taking initiative with hard piercing 1-2s. Tapia keeping a high guard, shoulders hunched up, stiff. Tapia lands a HARD pair of pendulous body shots with both hands now pushing Rosado into a corner. Nice comeback, not enough to steal the round.

10-9 Rosado

50-45 Rosado

 

Rosado landed 27 of 67, 40%, in the fifth. Tapia 8 of 30, 27%

 

Round 6

Rosado is nailing Tapia with heavy right crosses now behind a constantly floating home-in jab. Rosado is dialed completely in, predatory, finding Tapia no matter where he circled and blasting him on the damaged areas (increasing both in severity and number): hematoma on the forehead, shattered nose, cut eye... Rosado is following up on every neck-snapping head-jolting right hand landed with a stiff jab on the nose with no hesitation. Tapia reacting badly to every shot. Down. Rosado all over him, pouring on sharp power shots with both hands, mostly straight and delivered with full leverage and momentum from mid-range. Tapia done. Byrd in.

TKO6!!

 

Glen has just never quite known what to do when he gets stunned. His response is to act, well, stunned about it, arms lowered and mouth agape with a surprised and worried look on his face. Like, dude, that is exactly the one thing you shouldn't do. How do his coaches never work on rewiring his brain on that point?

 

Lol. "You know it's always hard coming into a tough fight coming off some, er, controversial losses".

Rosado still very salty about Monroe and Murray.

 

Man these guys are so awkward conducting this interview. Osuna was always good in the studio IMO but watching him just stare at Gabe answering his question and then letting a very pregnant 8-second pause go by after Gabe finishes without even blinking and then standing there swaying a little, stiff in his suit like a reed in the wind, nervously looking wide-eyed at the other guy with a silent "uh, okay, your turn, you say a thing. you have a question prepared, right???" - just cringe worthy.

 

Oh yeah, I read JSK announced that will be his swansong when he and Juan Carlos Abreu headline ESPN in two weeks.