MTK Global: Mohamed Mimoune vs. Darren Richardson Surtees & Logan Yoon vs. Ohara Davies RBR

Round 3

Surtees is digging hard uppercuts into the body with both hands. Mimoune is dropping his elbows and pinning them against his thighs, absorbing most of Surtees' punches before rallying forth with his own salvo, blasting Surtees with lefts between his eyes and big wide high-arcing right hooks landing behind his ear. Mimoune having prolonged success, driving Surtees into the ropes and landing sustained lengthy combinations to body and head, fluid shots, none of them supremely hurtful but with enough mustard to keep Surtees' respect.

10-9 Mimoune

29-27 Surtees

 

Round 4

Mimoune is able to snipe the body of Surtees from range, investing with long shallow left uppercuts and right hooks scratching at the chest as Surtees marches in. Hard lead rights by Surtees, buzzing at the hairline of Mimoune or whiffing, and leaving him open to medium- to light-power counters in speedy bunches from the Frenchman. Double rights hooks to head and body scoring for Mimoune as he ducks in front of Surtees, getting beneath his straight-extended arms. Surtees hurt for the whole final half minute, wobbled badly, into the ropes, going to go down - nope! Manages to stay up, just.

10-9 Mimoune, damn near a 10-8 even absent Surtees hitting the deck.

38-37 Surtees

 

Juan Carlos Salgado isn't "no one" (but is past it..)

 

Round 5

Mimoune is lighting Surtees up with flash-bang line drive lefts on the bridge of the nose, causing him to shudder violently upon impact, and slashing at the body with the quick right hook, causing him equal distress as Surtees is openly mouth-breathing now. Surtees looks shaky from the opening bell and increasingly more so as Mimoune digs in and goes to work. Surtees knocked back and down by a punctuating left and he's out!

TKO5!!

 

Honestly, as poor as he looked at the start (I was ready to write him off after the 1st, and then again even after showing improvement after the second, mostly on account of the knockdown), this was a good showing by Mimoune...overcame adversity, clawed his way back in and close the show in unexpected style for being a feather-fist.

 

Oh really, no footage? Yeesh, that's never a good sign..

 

I'm evaluating the Mimoune vs. Ofori semifinal match-up in my head already - tricky one to predict. Ofori's switch-hitting ability might offset the southpaw advantage of The Problem - but there is still the further unmitigated problem of the height and reach advantage (not sure the precise stats on wingspan, but Mimoune is listed as standing three inches taller)

 

Five thousand pound sterling, that's Mimoune's kayo bonus.

Who could have imagined he would get one?

 

Who's this heavily accented commentator? He's spot-on about the complexion of the fight changing as soon as Mimoune put his focus on Surtees' body (in round 3).