GBP on ESPN: Jesús Soto Karass vs. Juan Carlos Abreu RBR

Round 1

Garcia is holding a stiff high jab on Valenzuela, backing him up with it and hooking off it, just about reaching around Valenzuela's guard to bop him on the nose or at the very least push Valenzuela's gloves into his own face. Valenzuela is lurching forward at odd angles, pulling himself out and resetting for each new snakelike full-body lunge, dropping both of his long skinny arms in like spears from above. Garcia is leaning outside, arms up, countering with check hooks. Valenzuela is finally caught & dropped by one in the waning moments. Saved by the bell.

10-8 Garcia

 

Round 2

Valenzuela is circling to his left and stopping at intervals & bowing over rightward, folding his entire upper half across his thighs as Garcia hammers inside with double right hand leads. Garcia keeping a bead on Valenzuela with the jab and holstering the hook until he gets into close range, feinting with it a few times @ mid. Valenzuela is being mostly careful not to step into hooking range with Garcia, wary. A couple of rights get through for Garcia. Valenzuela just pecking with jabs on the beltline and trying a few skyward rights, all blocked on the high guard of Garcia.

10-9 Garcia

20-17 Garcia

 

Guess so! Nobody feeling Kingry.

 

Round 3

Valenzuela is getting shied away into a long, tall, reverse lean by the Garcia jab. A beanpole swaying in the wind. Garcia now switching his lead, trying uppercuts downstairs to bring Valenzuela's arms down. Valenzuela down, slip as their feet tangled. Valenzuela's balance is a mess. Up and Garcia is pounding him with high line drive rights on the head and wrecking ball lefts on the body. Valenzuela hurt and in retreat. Garcia stalks him around the ring for a while and finally cracks him with a massive chopping hook after knocking him backward from the pocket with a short right uppercut. Valenzuela down again. He rises and tries surviving until the bell under fire, and nearly does, frantically bowing and slipping a majority of the follow-up punches from Garcia, but the ref has seen enough as Valenzuela is knocked into the ropes and waves it off just before the bell.

TKO3!!!

 

Kingry improves to 12-0 (11) with eight consecutive knockouts.

Oh and he just turned nineteen a few months ago.

Yeah, he's one to bookmark.

 

Wait...for moral support, morale support, or Morales support?

 

"Before, to me it was just a job but I still always did my best. Now when I think about saying goodbye (to boxing) I want to cry."