Rene Mark Revillas Cuarto vs. Pedro General Taduran, Jr. II & Orlie Silvestre vs. Arnold Garde RBR

Rene Mark Revillas Cuarto vs. Pedro General Taduran, Jr. II, 12 rounds @ minimumweight

 

Round 1

Taduran is keeping his right forearm glued to and parallel with his chest, elbow angled out and slightly protruding from it like the prow of a ship. Hard left hand leads up top by Taduran. Cuarto is dancing around on his toes, putting out left jabs turning his body sideways, hiking the shoulder up protectively in front of his chin. Taduran keeps tossing straight lefts, some high threading between Cuarto's gloves and some into the midriff, often just falling short as Cuarto raises his gloves and sucks in his gut while hopping away. Cuarto is battered into the ropes at one point and goes down while sitting against them blocking shots, ruled a slip. Cuarto drawn into an exchange at the bell, nailed a few times as he tries loading up a fat counter left hook but only catches Taduran with his inner forearm, too close to get it stuck on squarely.

10-9 Taduran

 

Round 2

Taduran is throwing high 1-2s and getting ducked, with Cuarto swooping in low and grabbing him around the waist. Some rough shaking clinches and Cuarto slips on the canvas, with the ref sternly admonishing Taduran for pushing (although to my eyes he was just fighting way his way free of a clinch he didn't initiate ). Taduran stalking and throwing straight high southpaw combos, and Cuarto throwing ambush bombs after circling out into the ropes, ducking, and clinching when needed. Taduran walks onto a big left hook and suffers a flash knockdown. He gets up and starting pounding 1-2s into the guard of Cuarto, pretty stupidly honestly as he already has lost the round 10-8 and there's less than half a minute left - so unless he scores a knockdown of his own to even the score all he's accomplishing is wasting energy better saved for the next one.

10-8 Cuarto

19-18 Cuarto

 

Round 3

Taduran is showing a high right jab, but just floating the glove out there for measurement, and then whipping a low looping left into the lungs of Cuarto, who is skating along the ropes and throwing short counter combos. Technical difficulties on the Powcast feed for tirty seconds or so. Cuarto has two points taken for a flagrant headbutt. Taduran is charging in, keeping a narrow guard in front of his face, absorbing left hooks as Cuarto slings them around it, but slicing his way inside with the insistent southpaw 1-2 and some left uppercuts at the midsection, banging hard into Cuarto's arms down by his elbows.

10-7 Taduran

28-26 Taduran

 

Round 4

Taduran is targerting Cuarto's body and checking the left jab of the champ with his own right jab prodding into the wrist to stay its nascent movements. Cuarto is trapping Taduran's glove under his arm, but is warned by the ref for it. Taduran is blocking jabs walking forward, and loading up on heavy lefts downstairs, torpedoes and uppercuts. Cuarto moving away from the body shots, bothered by them, but has the werewithal to plant a check left hook on the temple of Taduran that affects his balance and backs him off for a moment. Taduran keeping a right jab in his face and backs Cuarto into a corner, then nails him with a left cross. Cuarto carrying both arms low and using quick footwork to escape the corner, slashing free with left hooks.

10-9 Taduran

38-35 Taduran

 

Round 5

Taduran is chasing Cuarto around the ring, getting spanked with some long low right uppercuts Cuarto has begun bowling in on the backfoot. That and the clinch inside are Cuarto's go-to moves now to deal with Taduran's pressure. Taduran starts to home in on Cuarto's left jab with his southpaw version and cancel it out, their hands locked in a fencing duel as Taduran seeks the real payload, big lefts on the body. Cuarto is getting poked in the sternum repeatedly by lefts as he retreats into a corner and manages to yank Taduran into a clinch. Desperate shoeshines by Cuarto, just smoke & mirrors to get inside and clinch again. Taduran with some left hand leads on the body and then switches to frenetic 1-2s higher up as Cuarto flurries from the ropes. Big exchange, both scoring straight head shots.

10-9 Taduran

48-44 Taduran

 

Ah, thanks for the heads-up - didn't recognize him w/ the mask!

 

Round 6

Taduran is jabbing his way in, needle-poking the knuckles of his right into Cuarto's stomach. Big cuffing left hook by Cuarto, and his inner elbow pushes down on the top of Taduran's head, onto his knees, WTF, that is ruled a knockdown?! That was a push. Taduran up undeterred, throwing body shots in pursuit - similar to the 2nd round when he probably should have cooled it and written off a lost 10-8 round to come back stronger in the next. Instead he rushes in recklessly - and it results in a headbutt as Cuarto shuts him down with clinches. Bad one. Taduran jabbing his way in but rattled by the headbutt, and Cuarto is able to hang back and time him with jab & right uppercut combos, freezing Taduran in place momentarily.

10-8 Cuarto

56-54 Taduran

 

Round 7

Taduran is spamming the 1-2 downstairs but Cuarto is up on the ball of either foot, giving him lots of movement and flashing a left jab out to both disrupt his view and knock his shots down from midair. Cuarto plants an orthodox 1-2 on the face of Taduran, sending his hairs standing on end and sweat flying, then collapses atop him in a clinch. The ref pauses to have the ringside physician check out Taduran's cut from the butt in the previous round, and...this might be it.

10-9 Cuarto

65-54 Taduran