I met a french girl on wednesday and she told me that it´s mandatory to learn English as your first foreing language. Later you can learn another one - mostly German or Spain - but that´s not a mandatory.
Round 3 Cosseddu prowls after Britsch and connects with a left hook as Britsch is circling calmly to the right. Moments later Cosseddu gets in a stray right hand that snaps the head of Britsch back. Cosseddu pesters him with high jabs and body double-taps. Britsch tries to flurry here and there but is mostly backing up and neither leading or countering. Another right hand climbs up the shoulderblade and lands just shy of Britsch's chin. Britsch flurries and hits gloves as he backs up. Cosseddu backs him up with hard charging right hands. Left hooks to the body now land for Cosseddu. Britsch retreats and throws infrequent jabs. A good comeback round for the Italian. 29-28 Britsch
Round 4 Cosseddu picks up where he left off, pushing Britsch back. Britsch tries to drop anchor with a double hook but Cosseddu does not halt. Cosseddu willingly eats jabs to step in and try to wail on Britsch in close quarters. Body jab from Cosseddu. Britsch throws a high-low combo and is warned for going too low. Leaping hook lands for Cosseddu, half on the glove and half on the face of Britsch. Another body jab for Cosseddu and he actually slips a return from Britsch. Even through 4.
I like Britsch´s style. Smooth, busy, technically good and he has good instincts. And only 22. Plenty of potential, may pick up a belt one day.
Round 5 Cosseddu sticking to the script, coming forward and launching right hands. Britsch seems to have him a bit figured out by now, and starts to flurry accurately while avoiding major punishment. Britsch is breathing a bit heavy but is also using a lot of energy and excess movement in this round. 48-47 Britsch
Round 6 Cosseddu starts up with an amateur bark while delivering his 1-2 across the ring: "urk urk! urk urk!'. Britsch is playing defense in the first half of the round, moving his feet at a steady pace and keeping his hands high. A few jabs start to leak out from this defensive stance and bleed through the gloves of Cosseddu to trickle down his face. Britsch begins to time his jabs to throw simultaneously with Cosseddu's, landing his and backing up before Cosseddu is even done with his extension. Cosseddu falls in while throwing a wide power combo that misses, and Britsch nails him in the body and brings carpet-bombing up the full torso and neck area of Cosseddu, getting cheers for his effort. Cosseddu again falls in almost identically just before the bell, but before Britsch can get another shoeshine off Cosseddu grabs him and the bell rings. 58-56 Britsch
Round 7 Britsch boxes off the jab and gives ground, hooking or shoeshining when Cosseddu gets too close depending on the angle. Cosseddu puts his head down throwing a right to the body and gets it wedged in Britsch's underarm. Cosseddu has no "plan B" and is now just standing opposite Britsch throwing hopeless jabs with his shorter arms and inferior speed, and predictably getting counter punched with total calm by the young boxer. Britsch lands a right hand that has Cosseddu hanging on the ropes and pondering it for a moment, and Britsch comes in with a stinging combo. Another quick combo lands as Cosseddu is corralled to the other side of the ring. 10-9 Britsch 68-65 Britsch
Round 8 Britsch covers up as Cosseddu drives his right hand into the glued-together forearm shield. Britsch waits his turn and throws a couple of body shots while turning Cosseddu but isn't opening up with the flashier flurries of earlier rounds. Cosseddu is controlling the ring and throwing with power as in his better round. A right hand lands on the chin of Britsch. A coupe of body shots land as Cosseddu is able to muscle his way in on Britsch without getting countered. Britsch finally fights for some space by triple jabbing at a now wily Cosseddu. The Italian suddenly becomes very lively in the last minute, bobbing a bit and making Britsch miss. Britsch doesn't bother trying to connect with much, instead moving away as Cosseddu rams into him with right hands and club-like jabs. Cosseddu round, but not enough to tip it his way without a knockdown. 77-75 Britsch
Do you mean you didn't see the individual round scores (they were omitted in favor of cumulative scores) or you didn't understand my reasons for scoring them? If the former and not the latter: 1: 10-9 Britsch 2: 10-9 Britsch 3: 10-9 Cosseddu 4: 10-9 Cosseddu 5: 10-9 Britsch 6: 10-9 Britsch 7: 10-9 Britsch 8: 10-9 Cosseddu
They only show highlights of Enad Licina's decision win. Apparently he was dominant. Undefeated light heavyweight Dustin Dirks scored a very Youtube-worthy left hook KO.
Nah, I didn´t get how you got the scores for round 5. You wrote round 4 was even but scored it for Cossedu. That got me a bit irritated.
Ah, yes that could be confusing. No, it was "total score even, two rounds apiece halfway through". :good