Prizefighter: Featherweights RBR

Semi-Finals #2: Rhys Roberts vs. Troy James...

UNDERWAY!

 

Round 1

Roberts dodges some hooks and looping rights from James, using a slick lean back and shimmy along with some nimble footwork. Roberts shuffles back and feints. James is trying to jump inside and get some hooks going. Nice counter left by Roberts. Straightaway right hand lead put up by Roberts as James walks into it with arms spread. Roberts is walked to a corner and crouches down, then springs up to grab. James tags him a couple of times on the break before getting clinched up again. Roberts is very slippery. Thudding body shots by James. Roberts is zipping out behind a jab and quick hook. James is trying to time his exits and lateral passes and catching him a bit but getting out-landed.

10-9 Roberts

 

According to Boxrec, his nickname is actually "Pure Silk".

Fairly appropriate given his style, actually. :think More so than Smokin' anyway. :yep

 

Round 2

James is thrusting with a high straight jab but just a bit too slow as Roberts dances out of the way and maneuvers around him. James whirls on him but gets his arms interlocked with Roberts'. Not as many effective counters by Roberts as in the first. He only needs a few, though. VICIOUS left hooks on the sideways step by Roberts. James is getting the top of his head pounded while coming forward with his fists at his chin. They wrestle and James lands a soft overhand right reaching over as Roberts leans the other way. Clapping shots up high by James after they break, catching Roberts on the parrot's perch. Long jabs stepping out by Roberts, and some more good arm defense to pick off James' attacks.

20-18 Roberts

 

What is Choi rambling about? :rofl

He says Roberts looks the better boxer, and then goes off on a tangent about how it's a British style and it's corrupt and Americans and Mexicans are never corrupt, and then he says "He's a turkey boxer".

A WHAT??!?!!

 

Round 3

Roberts is just coasting, drifting back to the ropes as James puts his head down and bores in with body shots. Roberts is not allowing him any clean touches to the skull, and is checking the clock while wasting time. A few long right hand leads by Roberts while dancing around in wide circles, but James is doing the bulk of the offensive work. Big body shots lunging in by James. He's got the round, but it's only a 10-9 and therefore he has his first loss.

29-28 Roberts

 

Roberts vs. Tseveenpurev is going to be classic boxer vs. puncher

No sour grapes, but Choi vs. Troy would have been VERY fun.

 

Official cards:

Mark Green 29-28
Ian John Lewis 29-28
Victor Lockland 30-28

RHYS ROBERTS

 

More like Turkey Boxer vs. Magpie Boxer, really. If Choi were a garden bird he'd be the type to harass cats twice his size. If Roberts were a fowl, he'd be the kind that pecks and then runs.

 

:rofl