Joseph George vs. Marcos Rubén Escudero Besana II

Round 3

Escudero is throwing big scything rights arcing up before crashing upon George's bean from above, then either thrusting out the left elbow & forearm or hooking to keep George pinned against the ropes. George is shelling up and waiting to poke with a pinpoint jab every now and then, high accuracy but VERY low volume. Escudero content to bash down atop the scalp, almost so deep it goes past the apex to land on the rear hemisphere. George countering, effectively, but well short of enough.

10-9 Escudero

30-27 Escudero

 

Round 4

Escudero is hurling lead rights walking forward. George is waving his arms out by turn, intercepting where he can, or just deflecting at the very least. George is floundering on the ropes, elbows glued to his abdomen, palms to his face, getting tooled over. Escudero is throwing a lot of light jabs but sometimes falling in with heavy triangular rights atop the skull. George is doing a lot of body-feinting, ducking forward before reeling back against the ropes, showing a jab to head or body and then flinching when Escudero starts to rev up, eager to exchange. George letting himself get trapped on the ropes too frequently, and not able to accomplish much once stuck there, with Escudero's reach and volume protecting him from any great influx of counter traffic. George landing the odd body shot rolling in low to clinch, that's about it.

10-9 Escudero

40-36 Escudero

 

Round 5

Escudero is unable to get into the usual routine straight away, with George cutting in to his right with a few quick shuffling baby steps and bringing a diagonally chopping right across Escudero's face. George is soon backed against the ropes again, but is now curled into a Philly shell and slipping most of Escudero's stuff when he goes headhunting. Counter right by George shimmying off the ropes. Escudero flurries in but his arms both get snatched and tucked under George's. Lengthy clinch and tug-of-war until the ref gets in to separate. George is now backing up and dashing counter-clockwise scoring quick left jabs. Escudero following and seeking an opening, pecking at the high guard of George, trying jabs, hooks and lead rights - nothing doing. George allows himself to get bulldozed into the ropes but immediately bursts free with an uppercutting shoeshine.

10-9 George

49-46 Escudero

 

Stats halfway through per ShoBox:

Jabs
Escudero 19 of 200, 10%
George 21 of 79, 27%

Power
Escudero 80 of 312, 26%
George 54 of 196, 28%

Total
Escudero 99 of 512, 19%
George 75 of 275, 27%

Body
Escudero 35
George 12

 

Round 6

Escudero is clapping his fists down into the lead rights of George, pressuring consistently but cautiously now. Escudero yet to really get his engine warmed up 45 seconds in. George poking the belly with jabs moving side to side. Escudero finally corners him against the ropes and starts using a mix of jabs, overhand rights, and stiff forearms to keep George surrounded by flying detritus. Escudero now starting to bend left and sit down on HARD liver hooks after burying George's fists into his own face with fast straight light tattooing combos. George pawing with jabs up into Escudero's guard, circling left. Escudero pops him on the face with several jabs and then clubs him with a right when he partially turns away. George's corner screaming at him to stay off the ropes. He doesn't. Escudero is clinched as he wades in too close. Escudero lands a couple more jabs and misses a big windmilling right. George shoves him away, both palms against the chest.

10-9 Escudero

59-55 Escudero

 

Round 7

Escudero is jabbing at mid-range as George leads him on a leash, only sometimes connecting - but once George's back hits the ropes he's a sitting duck for Escudero's blistering straight combos, many shots penetrating the guard. Solo jabs and hooks by George to extricate himself from the ropes, but Escudero's arms remain hovering in the way to prevent much from getting through, and George isn't really leaning in to any of his shots or committing, up on his toes, moving away. Escudero looping rights from afar, grazing or missing, then waving a jab in George's face until he clinches.

10-9 Escudero

69-64 Escudero

 

Steve Farhood has it 69-64 Escudero.

 

Round 8

Escudero is jabbing into the forearms, then bashing down HEAVILY with that high triangular right, and George is looking totally subdued against the ropes. Possum, maybe? George suddenly explodes with a long unbroken rapid combo. Escudero grins in acknowledgment, with little of it having really gotten through and even less having any real effect. Escudero is stalking as George scoots away, then occasionally squats and stretches out a long body jab. Escudero is grinding in close and then rips a triple uppercut at point blank through George's arms, prying them apart. George is grappling as much as he can until the ref orders a break. Escudero is blocking jabs now as George circles to his right in a Philly shell. George runs out the last 15 seconds.

10-9 Escudero

79-73 Escudero

 

Round 9

Escudero is jabbing in and gets rocked by a right hand from George as their feet entangle. A moment later George pounces out from a crouch in the corner with another right and has Escudero legitimately buzzed. Escudero shakes it off and begins leaning in on George, throwing a few weak perfunctory body slaps but mostly just regrouping. George is breaking his guard now only to jab high and disrupt Escudero's flurries. Wild jabs and looping rights by Escudero attempting to hold George in place by the ropes. George able to box his way out to ring center, and scores a nice jab. Escudero again curls his back and leans his full weight down upon George without really punching on the inside. George slips a few jabs as Escudero slides forward after him. 1-2 by George. Long clinch.

10-9 George

88-83 Escudero

 

Round 10

Escudero is blocking jabs and sashaying after George, roping out loose jabs at the head. George slipping them with some neck bends and constantly moving his feet, but not countering much, keeping his right glove holstered at his side and only really using the jab on the backfoot. Both tired. Escudero is scrubbing the stomach of George with his right and flinging jabs up into and past his face. Long unanswered flurries by Escudero, with George simply falling in behind a turtle shell and clinching. Escudero is blasting away. George throwing back, albeit out-thrown at least 1:10 and widely out-landed numerically if not in percentage. George can't get free of the ropes. Escudero pumps out jab and right after jab and right. George ties up all he can until the final bell.

10-9 Escudero

98-92 Escudero

 

Final stats:

Jabs
Escudero 31 od 332, 9%
George 42 of 168, 25%

Power
Escudero 146 of 579, 25%
George 119 of 377, 32%

Total
Escudero 177 of 911, 19%
George 161 of 545, 30%

Body
Escudero 50
George 21

 

97-93 George is simply not possible. How did they even... ?

Even the mirror of that is slightly generous to George.

 

What an obnoxious jackass. "Let's go! Say my name!" - seriously?

 

I'm kinda surprised anyone saw rounds two and three for George ...but I am just as confused how you didn't give him the 5th, tbf.