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

Round 4

Corley is ramming the right jab into the front left hip of Lundy from the outside. Lundy still going with the right-handed stance, having enjoyed a bit more success with it. Lundy is able to skate to his left and land a fluttering of left jabs on the brow of Corley. Lundy shows off some VERY slick defensive moves, planting his left foot outstretched to his left to do a near-split and then dragging his other leg in to meet it while keeping his neck rubbery and head ducked low, successfully bobbing underneath & slipping a good 5-6 jabs from Corley. They circle together and Lundy claps a shot on the side of Corley's head while also body-checking him. Corley falls. Ruled a knockdown; one commentator agrees but the other questions it.

10-8 Lundy

38-37 Lundy

 

Round 5

Both are sort of halfway committed to being the initiator/aggressor. Each is performing brief sorties, jabbing the body and penetrating the other's stance with a forceful step of the leading foot, maybe popping off some upper/hook combos to punctuate the expedition, then receding with the low tide and giving the opponent his turn. Very tit for tat. Corley places a jab on the Lundy's breast just over the heart. Lundy flicks a speedy combo at him but Corley has already vanished to his post on the outside, standing tall, guard up, leaned back.

10-19 Corley, but EXTREMELY close, almost scored it 10-10

47-47

 

Round 6

Corley is ducking and bending his entire body above the waist forward & to his right, swimming under the left jab of Lundy and pecking the body. Very slick defensively-sound pressure coming forward being applied by Corley. Lundy nips all that in the bud lining up a perfectly timed bomb on the liver as Corley was bent over, partially turning his back while crouch-walking past Lundy. Corley straightened up in a hurry from that. Lundy stands in front of Corley, watching cautiously. His corner screams "He's tired! Look at him!". Lundy squints at his opponent suspiciously, unsure whether his corner is falling brashly for a trap from the crafty old former champ. Lundy twitches a feint and Corley jabs, showing he is sure enough lucid. With a quick lean over, Lundy scores a short uppercut on the body. Nice fade-away lunge-in left hand at the bell from Lundy.

10-9 Lundy, stole that one in the last minute.

57-56 Lundy

 

"He's ****ing reaching you with the jab! Why you letting him??? Two on the body, three on the head, like we planned! Come on, what you waiting on, fight back! Push back!"

- I believe that is Lundy's corner, going OFF in the seventh.

 

Round 7

Corley is taking a couple of quick light steps inside and then bouncing off an invisible wall before quite fully reaching Lundy, doing a little uncoupled salsa dancing, getting off a couple of hits downstairs and then disappearing before a gun-shy Lundy can make up his mind to flurry back. Lundy tries reaching in with a couple of left jabs but is clapped on the cheek with a starchy right hook. Corley in the zone now. Lundy's corner berating him nonstop for not taking chances.

10-9 Corley

66-66

 

All down to round eight on my card!!!!! Nail biter!

 

Round 8

Corley is standing up tall, on his toes, spine in an elongated and full expression, imposing himself, dropping in pinpoint jabs and lefts on the head as Lundy keeps waving his fists around to intercept, cleaving tightly against his own cranium. Body shot combos sprinkled in by Corley on the outside. Been all him offensively for the first two minutes. Lundy, though, smacks him with a couple of BIG TIME HOOKS near the end. Damn. Corley shook them off well but they were monstrous.

10-9 Corley, BARELY

76-75 Corley

 

I gave serious thought to scoring both the 5th and 8th 10-10, which would have made it 77-76 Lundy on my card.

 

Official cards:

Poturaj 78-73
Lindsay Page 79-72
Alan Rubenstein 79-72

UD for Hank Lundy

 

Okay wtf. 79-72? Commentators have nothing to say other than "well, uh, there you have it..."

They had just been talking about how they were expecting something in the neighborhood of a draw.

 

Lundy calls up Corley during his victory interview and says the social media beef is squashed, he gives him respect and thanks him for being part of a good tactical entertaining fight.

Corley is giving a turn on the mic and thanks god for letting him take part in 80 fights and still be healthy and sharp. He gives Lundy credit for winning fair and square in his opinion, says he's the younger fresher and faster guy, and says "at the end of the day, you can tell I'm 43..." and that it's Lundy's time now.

Lundy doesn't call anyone out specifically when given the chance, he says he will go anywhere to fight anyone just like his boy Chop-Chop always did.

 

That sounded like retirement talk from Chop. Shame, because he still has it. (and IMO should have indeed had it, on the scorecards...but c'est la vie. Lundy getting the nod is absolutely fine; the only problem is the 79-72 x2)

Would've been nice if this was scored a draw, actually (though mathematically, with the knockdown that would've required the rare instance of a pro judge scoring a 10-10 round) because that would almost guarantee a rematch. Corley seemed very accepting of the decision (and, given his tone, maybe his fate in the ring, if he's openly thinking he looks & feels his age now...) and Lundy sounded hungry for big opportunities (he complained that him vs. Corley was a big enough fight that it should've been on TV, with all due respect to FightNightLive - which I agree with) so despite all the hand-shaking and sportsmanship and mutual respect I don't think Corley's team should be holding their breath waiting for Lundy to call about repeating this close-for-comfort encounter after making off with the W.

 

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