Seansureee Moonsuree vs. Pedro General Taduran, Jr. - IB's standalone RBR scorecard

Round 9

Moonsuree is dancing around lightly on his toes, just pecking out gingerly with the left jab. Taduran is angered by the deduction, apparently, steamrolling in with hard roundhouse sling-blades on the body. Moonsuree absorbing lots of punishment below his elbows, but Taduran is careful to keep it all visibly above the hem of his trunks. Moonsuree lands a fadeaway uppercut while falling back into the ropes, but is warned by the ref for, I think, an incidental elbow as they were bouncing together in a near-clinch. BRUTAL exchange on the inside, toe-to-toe action, favoring Taduran. Moonsuree gets belted with a left across the cheek while sagging into the ropes trying to load up a counter 1-2.

10-9 Taduran

87-83 Moonsuree

 

Round 10

Moonsuree is dialing in his lead right and step right maneuver again, successfully. Taduran is windmilling the left up top, but falling short. Moonsuree is hitting the brakes, dipping his left shoulder in toward his challenger, and bucking against him to scupper his momentum and break his rhythm. Moonsuree is able to get off a jab and/or straight right before Taduran rushes him and forces a clinch. Ugly stop and go round..

10-9 Moonsuree

97-92 Moonsuree

 

Round 11

Moonsuree is leaning into Taduran's advances, resulting in some head bumps that somehow, inexplicably, the ref is treating as if Taduran bears sole responsibility. Taduran doubling his right jab and pumping the left underhand into Moonsuree's stomach. More head clashes, arguably mainly the fault of Moonsuree attempting to clinch, but the ref TAKES A POINT from Taduran, who's literally just applying textbook pressure and throwing body punches?? WTF do you expect him to do, stand a yard off and gawp at Moonsuree instead of engaging him just because Mr. Grilled Chicken is too ...well, chicken to do anything other than initiate clinches when he does? Seriously bad call, maybe worse than his previous deduction. Taduran stays working, though, clapping some left hands across Moonsuree's jaw falling in.

9-9 (should've been 10-9 for Taduran, alas)

106-101 Moonsuree

 

Round 12

Moonsuree's jab is pattering against Taduran's guard from outside. Taduran warming himself into a lather again, starting from scratch looking stiff & cold after the stool break. Taduran wraps a right hook around Moonsuree's neck but hangs on a moment until the ref separates them. Both fatigued. Moonsuree is staying leaned backward, front leg sloped outward, and yanking himself away from Taduran when the latter starts bombing away on him, picking his spots with counter jabs. Moonsuree is able to pull himself clear of most of Taduran's body attacks, while peppering him lightly with counter jabs and rights down the stretch.

10-9 Moonsuree

116-110 Moonsuree

 

We only differed on round 1.

...but yeah, "Wanheng held like a *****, complained like a *****, is a *****. Taduran tried but didn't land enough clean." - amen!

 

So now I've watched Taduran fight sixteen rounds, and win six of them.

I by no means dislike the kid, but...he is hardly elevating the stature of the IBF title by holding it. Wouldn't call him world class. Although he did finely set the blueprint here on how a really talented pressure fighter could violently expose that fraud Wanheng.

 

Moderately high. I honestly think Niyomtrong is a more skilled (albeit less "flashy") boxer.

 

Stephen Blea is a smalltime American ref, it turns out.

The only notable fight besides this he officiated recently was Jessie Vargas against Dulorme (no deductions, they each got a 10-8 for a KD, hence the mathematically divergent scores).

Over four hundred bouts though, no excuse to be docking points that quickly.