NeX Panamá Canal 21: Ricardo Núñez vs. Jeremy Triana & Jaime Arboleda vs. Elysson Márquez RBR

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http://www.nexpanama.com/envivo

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This appears to be a mixed am/pro card, with the hour-long sporting news program that just wrapped up its 7pm time slot providing a few live peek-in clips in between segments, a round here and there. We appear to have another hour of news ahead; presumably they'll be following the same format, interspersing a few glimpses of the amateur undercard matches with the domestic headlines of the day. So if you want to observe random anonymous Panamánians in headgear scrapping away in the next hour while you await the professional half of the Formula Explosivo card, your cup runneth over.

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Okay, nix that, NeX launched a few minutes after 8pm into seemingly a full episode of a serialized farce called El Picarón, about the screwball adventures of a flamboyant, handlebar-mustachioed buffoon in coke-bottle glasses. Perhaps in the bottom half of the hour they'll return to Noticias with occasional snippets of amateur boxing coverage.

 

My comprehension of Spanish (when spoken at 100mph by native speakers, as happens in sitcoms) is low enough for me to have no idea what is happening, but...

This show is very silly. I've seen (and hell, performed) less campy acting in comedy sketches on late-night cable access.

 

Nope, it was back to back episodes of El Picarón (although weirdly they did show the venue live cam during the commercial breaks for a few seconds)

Now we're live with Formulá Explosivo. First match after the commercial break.

 

OMG it was exactly that!!

 

Edgardo Avila vs. Jonathan Carmona, 4 rounds @ featherweight

 

Avila is making his pro debut, hoping to impress for the fans in his native Panamá City. He damn well better; the bar is set pretty low as Westlands hick Carmona brings in an 0-8 record, stopped 5x.

 

Clear to see why Carmona has incurred nothing but failures, and most of them by vanquishing rather than points affairs... he fights exactly like the late Yemeni world-rated fraud, Ali Raymi: dealing in naught but wide underhanded body combos with no leverage, which leave him wide open. Avila makes quick work of him dancing around with counters jabs on the face, and (despite being the one in the ring with zero pro experience) far more professionally thrown body shots. A left on the liver has Carmona face-down on the canvas, writhing and unresponsive within a minute.

KO1!!

 

Avila, 22yo, looked...fine, I guess. Hard to glean much of anything from such a mismatch except that he did what he needed to do and looked the part, anyway.

 

@Russell @Chuck Norris @CST80 @Bustajay @MVC! ...get in, boys. Peleas en directo.

 

In reality Jonathan Carmona represents his exact level had they not carefully manufactured him to be something he wasn't (and get him ludicrously placed on the rankings of more than one major org).

If he debuted in South America fighting in 4-rounders against the average competition down there he would have gone his first ten fights without a win. Yemen has no boxing scene whatsoever. That whole thing was a sick grotesque joke and blight on the already not spotless name of the sport we love.

 

Francisco Pachay vs. Yahar Callender, 4 rounds @ bantamweight

 

While he boasts the ambitious nickname Pequeño Tyson, don't be fooled: Callender isn't the puncher here (though he does pattern his style a little after the ATG heavy, and in turn on Floyd Patterson). Currently standing at 5-2 (2), he's in with a true banger in 3-0 (3) Pachay, a lanky 1-2 artist.