Nathan Cleverly vs. Tony Bellew & James DeGale vs. Piotr Wilczewski RBR

Round 4

Pace steps gingerly to his left and right, a step or two each way before changing and forcing Heffron to readjust. Pace is letting his jab precede him, circling and spoiling a bit. Heffron is coming forward whipping out a good long jab and uppercut combo, scoring from outside. Pace is just tucked up and pushing out some jabs. Heffron stalks, turning side to side and watching Pace carefully to try and time his circling with a long combo. Heffron ducks down a bit and tosses jabs up at Pace. High guard by Pace. They trade and Heffron takes a backward step from a Pace hook that caught his feet splayed out of position. Heffron now lands a good left hook powering through the shielding right glove of Pace. Heffron is landing good body shots as Pace tries to lean in with his forearms pillared up in front of him. Pace reaches out and just caresses Heffron's face with what can't even be called a left hook - just a measuring pantomime of one. Heffron body shots.

10-9 Heffron

39-37 Heffron

 

Pace has to rally in the final two rounds to salvage a draw, for me.

Unfortunately for the snake, he had the look of a fading man in the 4th. :think

 

Round 5

Heffron comes forward with intent, pushing Pace back with a thrust of his left forearm when Pace tries to lean in on him and working good right uppercuts. Pace is flurrying out with wide sweeping hooks while backing up but getting tagged with body shots - uppercuts especially. Heffron works a side-winding right to the body. Pace puts his head down and dives in with his own pair of left and right hooks to the body. Heffron's momentum is brought to a halt only for a moment before he gets back on the forearm-shoving and combo blasting to the body of Pace. Nice double uppercut by Heffron, now triple - imitating a swing-set on a children's playground. Pace pecks the guard as he jabs his way in but can't get past the outheld left forearm when trying to lean his way in for a rest, and is caught outside with uppers.

10-9 Heffron

49-46 Heffron

 

Round 6

Glove touch. Pace comes forward, springing up at the knees as he keeps his gloves glued to his face and pops out a stiff jab. Heffron is stymied by the high output from Pace for a moment, and then gets back to shoving out with his left forearm to just catch those little left jab arrows on his shield. Pace keeps walking forward and landing good jabs as Heffron seems to be reluctant to do much work. Heffron throws some long uppers to the body while backing up. Heffron is huffing and puffing. Pace is relentlessly setting the...eh, pace. Good jabs and all-over slap flurries by Pace. Heffron is just flicking out a few body shots with his back curled and chin to his chest, landing little. Hooking combos to the guard by Heffron Pace is hopping in place, and lands a good left hook upside the head followed by a right hand as Heffron keeps his left arm low. They trade right hands and are both deflected partially by the other man's arms.

10-9 Pace

58-56 Heffron