ShoBox: Brandun Lee vs. Camilo Prieto & Brian Norman, Jr. vs. Flavio Antonio Rodríguez RBR

I always thought Pacquiao would be terrible at poker. He's a fidgety, idiosyncratic guy. Loads of tells.

 

Round 3

Rodríguez tosses out some quick jabs and walks through Norman's straight combos and fast wide sweeping fade-away hooks. Rodríguez stuffs a short overhand right up and past the guard and stuns Norman slightly. Norman recovers and begins to bounce around on his toes and pepper Rodríguez with quick jabs and combinations. Rodríguez has reverted to mostly just operating an invisible gym rowing machine with his "I'm coming for ya, punk! / oops, never mind, I've lost my gumption" jab.

10-9 Norman - again close, or at least parts were.

30-27 Norman

 

Rodríguez has that Rocky Juárez syndrome. (a good fighter when coasting on auto-pilot, which is always, but could be VERY good if you could imbue him with intense hunger and kamikaze instincts)

 

I want to give Rodríguez a round but feel like Norman still just edged him in the last two. 40-36, but there's another entire half left, maybe we're in luck and Norman's gas tank (and/or heart once pushed to deep waters) is shit.

 

Farhood, Raul M., and Tompkins all have it 39-37 Norman, all scoring R3 for Rodríguez.

 

Norman hurt with an uppercut?

 

That left hook on the body and right uppercut landing diagonally across the jaw was an ugly combo for Rodríguez, but effective. It shut down Norman and froze all motor functions except "retreat" for a good ten seconds.

 

10-9 Rodríguez, super close, a micro-grain away from balanced 10-10 scales.

49-46 Norman