Luis Concepcion vs. Oscar Gallardo RBR

OK, we're back to live action.

One more live bout before the main event. This is the actual co-feature.

Dirceu Cabarca vs. Manuel Vides, 8 rounds @ super flyweight for the Panamanian title.

 

Dirceu "El Explosivo" Cabarca and Manuel "El Escorpion" Vides are in the ring.

 

"The Scorpion" is a cooler nickname than what Boxrec has down for Vides.

"El Nivelador."

"The leveller". :think Oh, a contractor. How badass. :blood

 

Cabarca
Height 1.54 m (5'1")
Reach 74.5 cm (2'5")

Vides
Height 1.78 m (5'10")
Reach 79 cm (2'8")

 

Round 1

Vides is controlling the smaller man with his jab and tucking his arms to lean into him and bear down with his full weight. Right to the body by Vides. Cabarca isn't able to mount anything effective this round.

10-9 Vides

 

Round 2

Vides keeps forking his jab into Cabarca's face and driving him back. Sudden turnaround by Explosivo, landing a big hook up top while lifting his feet up off the canvas! Cabarca is gunning hard with shots arcing up high at Vides' head, and leaning back to narrowly avoid counters as they whistle past (and through) his mullet. Vides tries to walk him back to a corner with his jab, and lands a right to the chest. Cabarca is turned southpaw now, and pushing up with right jabs and hooks while sliding his feet back to draw Vides along the ropes.

19-19

 

Round 3

Vides keeps dropping and pulling anchor all over the ring, lobbing jabs at Cabarca and following with long rights to the body. Cabarca keeps backing up and popping right jabs out of the southpaw stance while craning his neck, and now grabs as Vides inevitably closes the distance. Vides stalks behind his lengthy jab, looking to set up an uno-dos. Cabarca is sticking with the whole southpaw thing, despite not really having any offensive success with it. And defensively - well there's a big knockdown scored by Vides, who found that uno-dos he was looking for. Cabarca is up and still pawing right jabs to hold Vides off. Hard left jabs to the face by Vides, but he can't put his man away.

10-8 Vides

29-27 Vides

 

Round 4

Vides walks Cabarca back to the ropes with plunging jabs and crosses, now hooks and rainbow rights. Cabarca skirts off into a corner, then ducks and covers and takes a few licks but manages to get out of it. Vides sprays jabs at him from outside, content to just follow him around the ring at a range where only he can make contact. Cabarca is grabbing every time Vides walks him into the ropes. Body shots now by Vides. Cabarca tries to load up on a game-changing overhand left, falls in, and misses. Vides keeps up the aggression on the smaller man, jabbing and clubbing at his head as he ducks to either side.

10-9 Vides

39-36 Vides

 

OK, watching the Panamanian 115lb champ beat up a midget sporting a mullet is good clean fun and all - but let's be honest. We're all staying up this late to watch El Nica, not El Escorpion.

Vaminos. Halfway there ain't close enough.

 

Round 5

Jabs by Vides. Grabbing and missing by Cabarca. Now some lunging and missing at the thin body of Vides by Cabarca. Lunging first with that ill-advised right jab, then big loudly announced lefts. Vides is obliterating Cabarca's connect rate with minimal defense and relatively little output of his own - just a few jabs and long body pokes.

10-9 Vides

49-45 Vides

 

Round 6

Vides steps in and jabs. Cabarca is getting very clingy. Cabarca skips back toward the ropes, springs his trap with abrupt forward steps on the right jab, and then holds. Vides lands a jab and upper from outside and has Cabarca rocked against the ropes and trying to hold. The crowd boos as Vides neglects to move in for the kill with any haste as Cabarca dances across the ring. Vides marches into him and smothers him against the ropes. Cabarca circles to the left, and ducks under some additional blows. Body shots score for Vides.

10-9 Vides

59-54 Vides

 

Round 7

Vides allows Cabarca a lead left to the body, searching for his own 1-2 up top. Cabarca is hiding that mullet, using lots of bending and weaving as he keeps moving. Vides scores anyway, marching right up to him and throwing straight shots that force Cabarca to hold. Vides jabs him into a corner but stops throwing on the way in and subsequently can't keep him there. Very lazy and lackadaisical approach from Vides here, seeming to have Cabarca there for the taking many times but letting him wriggle off the hook. Jabs to the face from outside by Vides. Right up-jabs and clapping overhand lefts by Cabarca from too far away, really just excuses to get into a shoulder-grasping wrestler's stance with Vides to stall for time.

10-9 Vides

69-63 Vides

 

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Huh, they have Pizza Hut in Panama? :huh



There's still Pizza Hut anywhere, period?

 

Round 8

Jabs and uppers from outside by Vides. Cabarca is becoming more of a daredevil in this final frame, swooping in and digging at the body with right hooks and getting punished for it with short straight shots - to the delight of the crowd. Now more clinching, which throws a damper on their delight. Cabarca is bouncing up and down trying to slap at Vides with right hooks to the head. Vides just keeps marching straight in on him and sizing him up for jabs. Cabarca has his hands all the way down at his thighs now. Cabarca circles into the pocket and clinches after having a right hook blocked. Cabarca ducks under a right hand. Jabs to the mullet for Vides.

10-9 Vides

79-72 Vides