Henry Lundy vs. DeMarcus Corley & Derrick Webster vs. Francisco Cordero RBR

Webster has no business letting this last more than another round or two. Cordero ought to be a bow-tied sensational KO win for him.

 

Round 2

Webster is working the right jab very nicely, turning Cordero, circling clockwise, moving very nimbly on his toes, boxing tall with textbook form, crisp accurate jabs in multiples (with proper, prudent form retracting to defend), chicken-winging his elbows as necessary to block the looping shots of Cordero when he comes barreling forward off the ball of each foot with lunging attacks. Webster just giving Cordero too much respect given his stylistic & physical advantages, only real complaint here. Otherwise, beautiful little clinic.

10-9 Webster

20-18 Webster

 

Round 3

Webster is still playing keep-away, tracking wide around Cordero and keeping the long, sharp right jab tethered onto the bridge of his nose. Cordero is putting up loose earmuffs but Webster is easily shredding & parting them with surgical jabs & left crosses, or just scoring beneath the elbows on the protruberant gut of Cordero. Webster is content to move right, avoid the corners, and outbox Cordero working off the jab. No push for a stoppage. Cordero lands a low blow and is warned.

10-9 Webster

30-27 Webster

 

Round 4

Webster is doing more of the same. Pop pop pop. Jab and move. Cordero hasn't gotten any more creative. This is lapsing into a very dull, samey pattern...

10-9 Webster

40-36 Webster

 

Round 5

Webster starting to mix in a few right hooks, bopping Cordero on the skull just above the ear and then scampering off with his quick long-legged gait instantly creating giant swaths of space between them. Cordero is left to repeatedly blunder into hard left hand leads on the gob, not reacting to any of them. Cordero just a willing punching bag on wheels as Webster dances around tattooing him with the jab. In the final half-minute Cordero runs in headlong, selling out and banging the body where he can, landing a bit.

10-9 Webster

50-45 Webster

 

Official cards:

79-73
80-72
80-72

UD for Take it To Da Bank Webster

 

Got pulled away for dinner, sorry. Had the commentary audio up, though, doesn't sound like anything changed much in the last three rounds.

 

Time for the main event.

 

Henry Lundy vs. DeMarcus Corley, 8 rounds @ lightweight

 

HH looking downright maniacal (but in a harmlessly comical way). Posing during the introductions with a fixed ax murderer glare and his pecs all flexed and fists bunched at his sides.

 

Round 1

Lundy is squatting and tossing his right jab at the belly. Corley stands with his feet spread wide apart, rear leg straight and knee partly bent, gyrating his upper half and returning fire with pot shot body jabs on his fellow southpaw. Corley draws first blood up top, scoring with some flush sneaky jabs as Lundy bobs and weaves taking crisscrossing steps in front of him. Lundy shooting lead lefts cocked up by his shoulder and colliding with the right forearm of Corley, raised in a timely manner by the savvy vet to deflect. Corley rattles a couple of right jabs off Lundy's chest.

10-9 Corley, just standing pat and countering patiently, with Lundy the in-and-out barracuda-style aggressor but not getting off many clean shots.

 

Round 2

Corley is pushing jabs through Lundy's elbows to poke him on the sternum, then changing it up and bringing the right glove crashing around into the side of Lundy's jaw in quick hook form, around the guard. Lundy is pelting Corley's raised knife-edge right forearm with jabs, sometimes tripling up on them and coming up short with the left cross as Corley sways backward while stepping front heel to rear toe and pivoting. Lundy finally connects at the end of the round with his own hook and builds up a furious lather in a sudden burst of violence, Corley getting in some counters but Lundy getting the best of it.

10-9 Corley, more of that would've swung it Lundy's way but he came on too late.

20-18 Corley

 

Round 3

Corley is leading with the right hook, stuffing it squarely into Lundy's waiting left palm up by his chin, just a diversion to set up left hand leads downstairs. Corley scoring nicely while turning Lundy, slapping down Lundy's jabs with his left glove poised on high as he stalks & spirals Lundy. Quick vicious hooking exchange inside. Corley scrapes the belt line with a jab stretching his upper body in toward Lundy and is caught by a 1-2 pulling out. Lundy turns Corley and baps him with a left hook, now having switched to orthodox. Lundy with a big combo, missing the head shots but landing a couple of uppers on the body. Corley taps Lundy with a jab while exiting the pocket. Long right hand on the body from Lundy, coming up top with a hook that bends Corley's neck. Clinch & spin by Corley.

10-9 Lundy

29-28 Corley