Riyadh Season WBC Boxing Grand Prix - Tournament Details, Preview, Round By Round & Results!

Ephrem Bariko (France, 12-0) vs. Jean Carlos Sinisterra Palacios (Colombia, 12-1), 6 rounds @ middleweight

 

And potentially a pair of even more meaningful wins ahead if he goes all the way and brings home the JS trophy.

 

France gets two straight cracks at sending a middleweight into the semis...after Bariko will be the somewhat more hyped Proton de la Chapelle.

 

Top of the rotation, Béla Flórián reffing again.

The only ref I didn't recognize so far was the Japanese bloke, anybody know him?

 

Interesting. Bariko taught himself to box, training in his garage.

Who's the last fighter to become successful doing that? Proksa?

 

Sinisterra has an educated left jab but he's being patient almost to a fault.

 

Bariko barking while whirling both hands in alternation like lacrosse sticks, Sinisterra calmly leaning back into the corner turnbuckle slipping side to side and looking to slot some counters jabs in.

Bariko has an enormous edge in work rate, but he isn't really being effective due to Sinisterra's height & defense and his own recklessness and lack of aiming. Wonder what the judges will make of all this.

 

Slow motion replay shows that at least one of those wild loopings left for Bariko did get through very cleanly.

 

WBC open scoring:

20-18 x 3, unanimous for Bariko

 

Winner of this faces Pomerleau.

 

Bariko gassed himself out - now is Sinisterra's chance! He lays in with a series of sharp 1-2s, then chops down on him with hooks against the ropes, drops him into the corner, and wins via KO3!

 

I don't think I ever realized Claudia Trejos is Colombian. No wonder she's such a babe in even her late forties. (probably 4 of the hottest 10-15 women I've met in my life were Colombian... with only Nepalese girls coming even close to competing with them)

She called Sinisterra her countryman but felt disloyal seeing the opponent winning every minute until the big equalizer.

 

Emiliano "Emy Popeye" Aguillón Castro (Mexico, 13-0-1) vs. Lancelot "The Last Knight" Proton de la Chapelle (France, 17-1-1)

 

It's the winner of this one next for Dylan Biggs.