PBC on FS1: Austin Dwayne Trout vs. Terrell Maurice Gausha & Chordale Booker vs. Wale Omotoso RBR

Round 2

Gausha is reaching from the left hip out to just below Trout's chin with his jab. Trout is creeping to his left in a shuffling double-step, then cutting on a compass point in a hemisphere around Gausha, lobbing southpaw jabs up top and spearing lefts on the stomach. Very lackadaisical pace. Gausha tries walking Trout into the ropes and finding him with a 1-2, spamming it a couple of times in a row but only grazing his temples as Trout does a slick lean sideways. Good defensive movement by Trout, but he's only barely outpointing Gausha in clean touches.

10-9 Trout, close

19-19

 

Austin looks old and tired on his stool; part of that is an optical illusion with the gobs of Vaseline making his beard look salt-and-peppery...but part of it (not illusory) still comes from the way his chest is heaving and the look of consternation on his face...

 

Total punches after 2.5 rounds:

Trout 17 of 100, 17%

Gausha 20 of 129, 16%

 

Round 3

Gausha is walking Trout down, able to get too close for comfort before Trout pulls a matador turn at the last second and just manages to angle himself off the ropes with a southpaw jab or quick high 1-2, sometimes actually getting trapped for a second and having to melt down a level and slither away laterally. BIG right hand by Gausha catches Trout in the midst of this elementary drop-and-pop nonsense, which Trout ought to know better than bringing against such a decorated amateur. Trout stunned and spends the next minute in retreat.

10-9 Gausha, clearest round yet by far, looking grim for Trout as of this moment.

29-28 Gausha

 

Gausha leads in connects 26-21 per the FS1 stat-keepers after 3.

 

Round 4

Gausha is line-driving the jab and right cross, hurtling across the ring with it, headhunting. Trout is getting his mojo working, some niftier footwork now, swerving and weaving from side to side and working the body with right jabs as he dips in either direction to dodge the 1-2. Gausha's jab is blocked as he presses forward, looking to pin Trout on the ropes. Trout is rolling his shoulders, keeping the blood flowing, but not throwing much outside a couple of light pecking jabs on the belt line. Hard right hand up top by Gausha, partially blocked. 2-1-2-1 by Gausha running in, just pumping straights, and Trout is able to bend over to his side but still eats a few. Gausha ripping shots out as he flies at Trout and seeks out the moving head. Trout with a light trickle of body jabs while slouched over.

10-9 Gausha

39-37 Gausha

 

Even if he pulls this out down the stretch, I think we both want to see Trout retire after tonight eh @CST80?

We'd both set the bar here at "dominate Gausha, maaaaaaaaybe stop him"; the fact that he isn't even close to doing the former (let alone latter) means he's pretty much kaput.

 

Round 5

Gausha is jabbing in on Trout, landing on the bridge of the nose and grazing the bushy overgrown beard. Trout is countering with his kneading right jab on the waistband. Gausha backs him up with a whip-snap right hand upside the head. Trout is switching to orthodox on the backfoot to disrupt Gausha's rhythm, then puts his arms down, baiting him, then returns to southpaw while shimmying by the ropes and lobbing out a counter right jab. Trout just pumping the jab now, huffing a bit, looking short on ideas even when he's the one coming forward. Gausha swallows him up in a mauling front-headlock/clinch as Trout shoeshines his body.

10-9 Gausha, close

49-46 Gausha

 

Obscene amount of petroleum jelly on both Trout's jaw and his cutman's hand, looks like an after-party of a bukkake shoot..

 

Still tight in terms of the statistical view; Gausha leading 46-41 at the halfway point.