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This is for (I believe*) the inaugural "Global Boxing Organization featherweight" title. * being a relatively new sanctioning body - perhaps under two years old - the GBO doesn't even have its title history listed on BoxRec yet. Yap, 30, is coming off a competitive UD loss against Takuma Inoue last September, after which he retired from the sport - until late February of this year. This is his long-awaited homecoming after having fought eighteen consecutive times on foreign soil - and seventeen in a row specifically in Japan. Lagos, 19, enters with a 9-0 (3) record and unlike Yap has never fought outside their native Philippines.
Ugh, apparently the videographer for the GAB only picked this up in media res, missing the first two rounds. Oh well..
Round 3 Lagos is jabbing high and stepping to his left. Yap scores a hard plumbing right on the solar plexus and then drives through with a sweeping left hook knocking Lagos off balance momentarily. Yap continues pecking at the body as Lagos turns and tries lining up the older man with a sharpshooting 1-2. Lagos standing and posing at mid-range as Yap creeps around him clockwise and jabs at the body. Left on the side of the head from Lagos, clipping the opposite temple when Yap tries spinning away. 10-9 Yap, close (and presumptive; the upload is missing the first minute of the round)
Round 4 Lagos is diving in and throwing pincer combos above the hip as Yap skeeballs the jab over his sloped backside. Lagos busier, attacking the body until Yap suddenly roars to life with his own hooking combination on the ribs stepping inside. Lagos checks the left jab of Yap with his own, then quickly steps away from a Yap can-opener right downstairs. They circle in close in the middle of the ring and exchange light jabs, both catching on their mitts when not throwing. 10-9 Lagos, very close ?? (19-19 Lagos from R3 on)
Round 5 Lagos is keeping up the goal posts as Yap lobs jabs at him from a pace off. Lagos occasionally tottering his upper body in either direction or just bending his neck to peek around his guard. Nothing but jabs so far, mostly from Yap. With abrupt explosiveness, Lagos drives Yap into the ropes with some big overhand rights up top and hooks on the body, diving in, throwing blind and selling out. Yap sidles rapidly along the ropes on his toes and pivots his way past the corner onto the next set of ropes. Lagos applying heavy pressure, trading with Yap across the breadth of the ring, forcing him to brawl, landing the right cross flush on the chin. Yap hesitant, always first to step away, his counters mostly a half-beat too late... 10-9 Lagos ?? (29-28 Lagos from R3 on...)
Round 6 Lagos is chasing Yap around the ring, his jab sunk into the guard and BIG sickle rights on the body and face, thrown from a distance but with Lagos propelling himself inward off the rear heel. Yap is barely able to avoid the ropes, bouncing in place to shake out apparent cramps in his legs from holding them rigidly straightened in flight, and snapping counter jabs as he dances around the ring, mustering little in the way of serious counter-offensives... 10-9 Lagos ?? (39-37 Lagos from R3 on..)
Round 7 Yap is confidently staking his claim to ring center, jabbing when Lagos greets him there. Yap is fully in control with the jab now, having stiffened it up and tightening his aim to focus just between Lagos' wrists, nailing him on the point of the nose. Lagos having trouble avoiding the jab, now jogging laterally in orbit, trying in vain to place his own jab. Yap covered up very solidly, pumping the jab, and hooks off it, catching Lagos while circling with his gloves down and knocking him into a slightly off-balance wobble sideways. Yap determined now, surging in with a big superman right hand and drilling Lagos into the ropes, then following up with left hooks downstairs. Lagos seems to be wilting, in a shell on the ropes getting hit with hooks on the liver...and DOWN HE GOES! Counted out! KO7!!
Wow, that really was a come from behind miracle by the Journeyman. Watching this live with no foreknowledge of the result, I'd think after the sixth anybody would assume that if somebody was going to be stopped in the following round it would be Marjohn...
The "commentator" (barely audible, I think it was the person recording) even muttered after the sixth that it was looking pretty scary in there for Yap...then he came out gangbusters in the seventh and stole victory from the jaws of defeat! That poor kid Lagos was totally shell-shocked, probably figured it was in the bag and wasn't expecting anything like that.
