iFL TV: David Oliver Joyce vs. Stephen Tiffney & Aliu Bamidele Lasisi vs. Ricardo Blandón RBR

Comeback from Blandón in the ninth, pounding Lasisi against the corner turnbuckle with body shots with nonstop, smothering pressure.

10-9 Blandón

85-84 Blandón

 

Tenth was crazy...Lasisi started out strong, flipping both fists backhanded up into Blandón's guts and hurting him, and then dropping him, but Lasisi appears to have spent himself and Blandón mauled him for the remaining minute plus, hurting him a few times.

10-8 Lasisi

94-93 Lasisi

 

Blandón chases Lasisi around the ring, squatting and launching himself diagonally off bent knees to cut the ring off and hammering down with huge overhand rights aimed on the jawline. Lasisi keeps spitting out his gum shield and needing his glove re-laced, annoying referee Massimo Barrovecchio. Maybe a deduction soon. One more big strappingright from Blandón af the bell, almost dropping Lasisi.

10-9 Blandón

103-103

 

Twelfth is a microcosm of the whole fight: insane, thrilling, dirty, messy, and full of momentum shifts. Blandón slugging away for most of it. Lasisi running as long as he can then standing his ground and trading or collapsing into a clinch. The ref calls time out and the corner of Lasisi has to retape his glove interrupting a vicious two-way exchange.

10-9 Blandón

103-102 Blandón

 

Lasisi thinks he won, celebrating before the scorecards are read..

 

Official cards:

114-111 x3

UD for Lasisi

 

Not awful cards per se, but a little suspicious that in a fight like this with so many close rounds and chaotic elements all three would be the same...

 

Moral of today's story:

Always bet on the unbeaten favorite (Lasisi/Joyce/Tapia) over the single-loss prospect (Sharma/Tiffney/Blandón) ...at least in Dubai.

 

Sure, when does it start , a couple hours from now?