Guerfi is drilling him with the 1-2, and the challenger (who last held this belt in 2013 and has been trying ever since to regain it) seems to be flagging. He's still throwing his own shots with conviction, though, pumping out straight power combos into the European bantamweight champ's guard, knocking him into the ropes, unable to penetrate, Guerfi keeping a tight defense and playing rope-a-dope, waiting his turn.
Over, TKO8!!! Valiant effort but the embattled Belgian's corner threw in the white towel, saving his bacon. For a feather-fist, the Frenchman was putting a savage beating on him and this could have been the kind of prolonged abuse that shortened Jamoye's career or life.
Frenchies have been having a good month. Quick... Give Duhaupas a top 10 HW while this temporary boost in morale lasts!
Nice show of mutual respect by these old bitter enemies, hugging it out now that blood and tempers have cooled. I really wish I had realized this was on half an hour earlier, would have done a full RBR. According to literally everybody on Twitter it was a barn-burner, total war start to finish. The round and a half I caught were a blistering enough pace as it was for the seventh and eighth, to imagine they were just keeping up the same (or better) from the first six! Hope this gets uploaded soon.
Sorry to get everyone's hopes up, didn't mean to give you blue-balls, had no idea that it would end literally moments after my post.
With this I think he's supposed to rise to #5 in the WBC...and the champ at bantam is still, technically, I think, Luis Nery? Or maybe now Yamanaka because of the positive B sample? I'm not really sure. Or there's a rematch with ZZ for the WBA title, if he can get past the PTSD of their first encounter..
Alright then, sorry Guerfi, you're stepping back in with Zhakayinov. Or you can eschew world title aspirations completely and just milk the Euro title in front of adoring crowds at home in France. (cumulatively earning more than you would to go lose a single bigger fight abroad) Hmm.. Cool, so looking forward to Jamoye III.
October 7th - Mohamed Mimoune upsets Sam Eggington October 12th - Karim Guerfi (previously with 7 kayos scored in 29 bouts, good for 24%) stops old rival Stephane Jamoye, two of whose previous three stoppage losses were against big punchers. October 14th - Ahmed El Mousaoui comfortably outpoints former world titlist Carlos Molina. Sacre bleu!, it has been one hell of a first half of the month for feather fisted Frenchies bagging eyebrow-raising results. Let's see if Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam can keep it going on Saturday.
