Lee Selby vs. Rendall Munroe & Gavin Rees vs. Gary Buckland RBR

Round 9

Buckland is circling right and making Rees overstep with long missing left hooks. Body shots sneaking around the side by Buckland, using his length. Buckland is repelling Rees as he dives in with body hooks and high right hand chops. Left hook to the body by Buckland. Rees gets through with a couple of his rights on the jaw. Buckland staggers but stands his ground and flurries back. Another right on the jaw by Rees, shaking Buckland but not moving him. Clinch. Buckland lands a jab and then leaves his arm out to disrupt Rees' counter 1-2, virtually backhanding the blows aside while stepping clear. Body shots whipped in by Buckland, toe to toe as Rees loads up his own hooks, fewer and further between but thrown harder.

10-9 Buckland

86-85 Rees

 

Ninety seconds of action from hitting the Over 9.5 rounds prop. :deal

 

Jim Watt has it level, 86-86, Buckland sweeping the last three.

 

Domestic FOTY so far? I can't remember if there was anything this remarkable in UK boxing in January... :huh

I feel like there may have been, just drawing a blank...(or maybe thinking of a late-entry 2013 candidate in Nov or Dec...)

 

Round 10

Buckland is waiting on Rees, jabbing him in the face as Rees lunges up with anti-aircraft missile rights from the crouch. Buckland is jabbing up a storm on Rees, leaning down on him after each successive cluster and finishing with a right uppercut on the left cheek as Rees is hooking wide into Buckland's ribs with both hands. Rees is caught by a hard left hook downstairs rushing in, halted and hurt. Another body shot by Buckland hurts Rees. BIG 1-2 by Buckland. Rees walks through the punches and holds.

10-9 Buckland

95-95

 

"Don't let him push you back..."

"I can't see him! :twisted:"

"I know..."

- conversation in Rees' corner before the eleventh...