Georges Ory vs. Josh Wale RBR

Round 4

Bertogal is luring Kani across the ring, flicking soft jabs into the forehead to bait him and then leaning against the ropes in a lefty Philly shell. Kani throws everything but the kitchen sink at him, body & head shots, and Bertogal slips it all or catches it on his forearms, displaying some downright Mayweatheresque defense and flair, casting a faux-concerned look at Kani, like "you feeling okay, buddy? Having a hard time with that aim, huh?". Bertogal pushing just enough weak jabs into Kani's skull while prancing around him to put himself on the scoreboard and outpoint him.

10-9 Bertogal

38-38

 

Round 5

Kani stuffs hard jabs on a decline from his chest into Bertogal's waistband. Kani mostly follows, tottering back and forth on his spindling legs, posing, guard up & ready to fire but not doing so for long intervals. Bertogal not throwing much either, utilizing less circular movement than in the preceding four sessions. Bertogal pushing a limp high right jab out at Kani on the rare occasion he steps in on him, and tying up.

10-9 Kani, barely

48-47 Kani

 

Round 6

Bertogal is hopping out of the way as Kani daggers a right jab to the body stepping in. Bertogal now opening up, alighting off his rear heel after hopping away for a moment to spring-vault himself inside for a jab and chopping left, quickly pulling outside again upon landing. Kani lands a body jab and becomes emboldened, throwing an entire hooking combo that misses as Bertogal wriggles along the ropes and them shimmies away. Bertogal covers up to block a jab and then chops down with a left to back Kani off. Warning from the ref for heads clashing with twenty seconds remaining in the bout, a bit unnecessary, was incidental and the first time it happened. Body jab by Kani.

10-9 Bertogal, close

57-57

 

Near-zero chance this actually gets scored a draw, needless to say.

 

George Ory is warming up backstage, already has gloves on...

 

Radeff vs. Mekereshvilli on next, followed by the main event.

 

Official cards:

60-55
59-56
57-57

MD for Kani

 

One good judge, one terrible - and one sort of mediocre.

 

David Radeff vs. Zura Mekereshvilli, 6 rounds @ cruiserweight

 

Okay, now this is a fascinating co-main event - one has a losing record and the other is barely treading water above .500, with nineteen losses!

David "The Machine" Radeff is 8-13-2 (3), while Zura Mekereshvilli is 24-19 (20). So um...who's the A-side?

 

Well, Radeff has the crowd support and is introduced second, so I guess he is. Seems a bit of a risky fight for him, though, if he's trying to build up even a modest domestic profile. He has been kayoed 5 times and the Georgian's record suggests that he has some power at the very least.

 

Occured to me that Mekereshvilli just might be the porkiest cruiser I've ever seen - and sure enough, per BoxRec he is a blown-up middleweight (debuting there in 2014 and then campaigning for a couple years each at 168 and 175lbs)