Round 1 Yang is leading with left hooks, wide up top, and looping rights in behind them wading in squared up. Cuenca is circling rapidly, smoothly feeding out a straight, crisp southpaw counter 1-2. Cuenca is drawing Yang into straight punches while riding the carousel, going counterclockwise and mastering range. Yang comes in with a lazy jab. 1-2-1-2 by Cuenca, and the final left cross sends Yang reeling into the ropes, arms splayed. The ropes hold Yang up and his buttocks come within centimeters of kissing the canvas but don't quite. The ref gives a count anyway. 10-8 Cuenca