SECA/Tencent: Zhenyu Guo vs. Lei Wang RBR

Lei Wang vs. Wu Ju, 4 rounds @ super welterweight

 

Wang in the yellow trunks with a tattooed left bicep. Ju in red with two-tone hair, and several inches taller.

 

Round 1

Wang is staying low, catching the long jabs of Ju across the pinky edge of both gloves, and then exploding with up-jabs when Ju retracts and leans back into a defensive posture. Wang carrying his right arm in a very low cradle, and shooting it up at the lofty target of Ju's face when the latter starts to circle away, dropping his own hands. Wang seems a very cerebral fighter, studying his opponent for 'tells' and exploiting them efficiently.

10-9 Wang

 

Round 2

Wang jabs up off the lead hip while pressing Ju into the ropes and corners. The lanky southpaw is clamping both palms over his orbital bones and scrunching forward to cover his belly with his elbows, then countering with a desperate flurry of straights. Wang is shoved down as he pursues Ju into a corner and gets nudged back with a glove on the guard, losing his balance. Ruled a slip. Wang keeps slinging himself inside, besieging Ju who is using every scrap of terrain in this giant ring.

10-9 Wang

20-18 Wang

 

Feed cut out for the first half of R3, but Ju is pumping out some rapid-fire jabs and combos and skittering around in a wide outward spiral to avoid most of Wang's counters, absorbing left hooks and high-climbing rights on the backs of his arms. Doing good work in the last ninety seconds, going to give him the benefit of the doubt on that basis.

10-9 Ju

29-28 Wang

 

Wang, btw, is 5-0 (2) and was considered a crazy selection for the YouTube (or whatever, probably Bilibili more likely - whatever he's on, he boasts millions of followers) personality to be jumping in the deep end with.

Ju is 9-0-2 and is the current IBO lightweight International champion. This, however, is non-title as it was planned to be a four-rounder and the champ is a late notice (to put it mildly - swapped in an hour or two beforehand!) sub.

 

Round 4

Wang is back to his effective ways, cutting the ring off and finding Ju with rights high on the chest and spanking him behind the upper arm with left hooks springing up on the ball of his lead foot. Ju is looking tired but still emitting a spray of right jabs and plunging lefts best he can, but getting driven back almost constantly and not able to pick as much off.

10-9 Wang

39-37 Wang

 

Draw.

Wang gets on the mic first and seems gracious & complimentary of Ju. The interviewer then moves on to Ju and, though I speak no Mandarin, his tone and cheeky grin suggests to me that he's asking "so...how about putting the belt on the line in a rematch? " to which Ju sort of laughs nervously.

 

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