Librado Andrade vs. Aaron Pryor Jr. & Enrique Ornelas vs. Hector Hernandez RBR

Round 6

Pryor lands a couple of good straight shots with those long arms from outside, while taking quick steps to his left. He knocks some sweat out of Andrade's curls and then gets run back into a corner as Andrade charges in fist-first. Pryor is getting caught with long right hands but Andrade doesn't have as much on them as he can put on his shorter stuff up close. Pryor is backed into a corner and in a spot of trouble as Andrade unloads with just such short punches. Pryor gets moving in a hurry. Pryor tries to land his long 1-2 but is focused largely on escaping Andrade's dogged pursuit. Andrade smacks him into a corner and then stays in his chest, hitting him up against the opposite set of ropes and then wrestling him to the ground when Pryor tries to tie up. Andrade is really bossing him. Andrade lands a vomit-inducing right to the gut!!! (not literally, but...ow...) Andrade is stalking, looking confident. Pryor jabs while getting backed into a corner and flurries at the bell.

58-56 Pryor

 

Well, he was... :yep

He hasn't really gotten out of Zombie mode so much as started to make Pryor fear the Zombie, ya dig?

 

Well, he only dug himself a 4-round hole which means he doesn't even need the knockout in a 10-rounder provided he keeps racking 'em up..

 

Round 7

Andrade is really gunning for the punctuation mark, wanting to outdo his brother with that thriller from earlier. Pryor is batted around the ring, getting frequently hurt but playing it off like he isn't with his toothy (or, mouthguardy) grinning and shaking of his head. Andrade is just zeroing in on him with uncomplicated steps and cutting off all of Pryor's attempts at fancy circling and throwing absolute nukes to the body and head.

Pryor seems to feel like he can coast through. We'll see.

67-66 Pryor Jr.

 

Round 8

Triple jab from Pryor before he decides that discretion is totally the best part of valor and gets back to his rope-hugging patrol. HOLY **** BALLS, Andrade just took another one of those crushing right crosses to the face. Pryor isn't a monster hitter but he isn't feather fisted either. They tell fireside legends of Andrade's chin for a reason. ANOTHER RIGHT CROSS collides with Andrade's chin and turns it aside but doesn't drop him or even make him blink. Andrade keeps plodding on, but is back to getting lit up from outside. He isn't cutting the ring off anymore. Pryor is a step ahead of him. Pryor is landing rights and initiating clinches when Andrade gets too close for comfort. Hard right off the ropes by Pryor. Andrade keeps coming, willingly eats jabs like they were hours d'ouerves. Right hand and left hook combo lands for Pryor but he wasn't putting much zip on them, just trying to create space and turn Andrade. Pryor then puts MUCH ZIP into a right cross. Then after the ten second clap, as Pryor is recovering his balance from that last big right hand he threw, it is ANDRADE landing a pair of very hard left hooks that have Pryor jelly-legged!!!

10-9 Pryor (although Andrade hurt him at the very end and almost stole it).

77-75 Pryor Jr.

Andrade now needs at least a knockdown to win...or to sweep 9 & 10 to preserve a draw on my card.