Sadriddin Alikhanovich Akhmedov vs. Yohanes Ruba & Aidos Yerbossynuly vs. Lukas Ndafoluma RBR

Round 4

Yerbossynuly is admonished by the ref for answering the bell without his gum shield. The ref yells at his corner in English "last time, okay!?". Immediately the fighters close together and of course butt heads. The ref is losing his patience, we might see the first ever double-disqualification. He is furious with both, as they're equally culpable. More sloppy clinching and infighting. The ref now sort of just letting them work, barking for a break only when they grind to a standstill. Big hooking exchange, both missing badly. Yerbossynuly is jumping in and out popping jabs between the wrists and executes a hooking combo on the navel, very lightly dusting him, nothing on these shots, but scoring, amateur-style. Ndafoluma is flopping his upper body around in some weird attempt to slip punches, but there's no coordination to what he's doing, wouldn't call it slick. Another clinch.

10-9 Yerbossynuly

40-36 Yerbossynuly

 

And had already bagged some hardware...coming in with that Continental ABC title, while the other two were going for their first (vacant) titles.

edit: scratch that, Akhmedov had previously won a WBC Youth bauble, and Zhangabayev in his last outing captured the same belt he won today, but a division north)

 

Round 5

Yerbossynuly is starting to wind up big looping rights from behind the buttocks, tossed in the wake of his jab. Ndafoluma is a sitting duck, offering no resistance, just taking everything, keeping his arms folded up against his face but still vulnerable to any shots aimed either distally (by his ears) or above his eyebrows. Lots of wrestling in between long-range pot shot power blasts from Yerbossynuly. Ndafoluma chopping with some rights when Yerbossynuly dives in but can't lay a glove on him cleanly.

10-9 Yerbossynuly

50-45 Yerbossynuly

 

Alright, come on Kazakh officials, let's expedite this a little, have the physician deem the cut fight-ending and let's go to a TD already. I'm sick of this.

 

Round 6

Yerbossynuly is jumping around, jabbing Ndafoluma in the face, and splashing uppercuts into his chest. Yerbossynuly at times seems to be going for a KO but he appears to be, despite his record, a complete feather-fist. No proper form on any of his shots. Ndafoluma is just circling, watching, reacting - occasionally chopping with the right into the small of Yerbossynuly's back as they veer together into a clinch. Ndafoluma lands a few rabbit punches as Yerbossynuly tries some ill-advised maneuver bending over in front of him to scoop in a few body shots. Ndafoluma is protecting his face, which Yerbossynuly isn't even attacking, while his ribs get tapped with light hooks.

10-9 Yerbossynuly

60-54 Yerbossynuly

 

There are four rounds left.

 

Seriously if they'd reshuffled the running order (basing it on actual merit, as in ability) I could have missed this entirely and watched both Nursultan and Sadriddin and walked away one very satisfied "customer".

 

Round 7

Yerbossynuly is spewing uppercuts everywhere after pushing off from a locked-horns ram fight in the middle of the ring. Ndafoluma is also hacking down at him and missing. This is just awful. Maybe a few more of Yerbossynuly's body shots are getting through semi-cleanly than any of Ndafoluma's pokes and waves are grazing his scalp and bouncing (seemingly accidentally) off his chest. Big shoeshine by Yerbossynuly before the bell, 100% hitting forearms.

10-9 Yerbossynuly

70-63 Yerbossynuly

 

Round 8

Yerbossynuly is caught with a right hand on the point of the chin after Ndafoluma successfully gets him to bite on a jab feint. They fall together in clinch number one thousand so far. The ref's arms must be weary from pushing them apart so much. He (the ref) legitimately appears winded. Yerbossynuly suddenly finds a burst of energy and pours it all into wild uppercuts, staying directly in Ndafoluma's chest - missing wide of him or caroming off his armpits. Horrible body combo from Yerbossynuly, like a hen flapping its wings upon spying a fox. Ndafoluma drills through with a few 1-2s and penetrates Yerbossynuly's guard, backing him up.

10-9 Ndafoluma

79-73 Yerbossynuly

 

Round 9

Yerbossynuly is pummeling the body of Ndafoluma with ungainly two-handed cow-milking motions. Ndafoluma is peeking between his thumbs, juking & jiving to either side but with little purpose (and certainly not avoiding the spray of leather sent his way from mid-range as Yerbossynuly crouches and then jumps up flailing), occasionally chopping behind the neck, dealing his greatest damage with the odd accidental headbutt, further exacerbating and multiplying the cuts of Yerbossynuly.

10-9 Yerbossynuly

89-82 Yerbossynuly

 

I'm not sure they announced open scoring in the 5th or 9th even though Yerbossynuly has a WBC title on the line here. See? The commission representatives even dozed off during this.

 

Ghastly fight, I don't want to watch either of these guys again.