Nelson's bone-chilling breakdown of Juvenal Ordenes

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6IvKs2bTk&feature=sub[/ame]

The more I see this, the more I think this is as good an example of the pressure and stress a stalker places his foe under as we have in colour. Nelson isn't taking every minute of every round by any means, but the spells he is losing are still being heavily invested with win. Nelson keeps his opponent busy throughout with his control of space and distance, and Ordenes is taking many, many more paces than he wants to. He's also forced to throw punches inspite of Nelson's excellent technical guard being in position - in other words he's not getting much time to feint his man out of position, make angles or pick his spots. He's forced to take action he doesn't want to take.

Meanwhile, Nelson is winging in the occasional murderous shot (with limited success, it must be said) whilst deploying his excellent jab. The jab works to gather points, to add to his opponents woes as far as "getting set" goes. I'd say that Ordenes is already beginning to drift from stick and move to runner by the end of three.

As an aside, zip on to about 2 minutes. Here we have a shot over-the-shoulder of the doomed Ordenes...check out Nelson's face. Imagine the pshychological implications of being stalked by that man and running out of ideas as to how to keep him off you?

Ordenes has a busy round four and does really well, in fact to the untrained eye it might look a little like Nelson's power rescues him in round 5; but I think Nelson has been breaking his man down on a variety of different levels from round 1. I love the way he drops his hands in five, signaling that it's time to go to war.

Horrific, brutal finish. Ordenes had heart. Never stopped apart from this or did i mis-remember?

 

I think you're maybe a wee bit hard on him Mante. He's reasonably mobile, has a tidy jab, and the shot that was the beginning of the end for him would have hurt just about anyone. Plus, there's no doubting his heart. I'm not trying to paint him as a world beater or anything, I just thinks he looks okay. Was he ever stopped apart from this? I really must google boxrec and find out for myself.

 

I agree with you that Nelson looked as good as he ever did in terms of what he wanted to do and how he went about it. It's almost incidental that he got hit a fair bit.

 

I loved that fight also.

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187947

 

Cheers. Do you like this fight?

 

Jeez, that's no good, why not?