ShoBox: Devin Miles Haney vs. Xolisani Ndongeni & Ruben Villa IV vs. Ruben Hernández Cervera RBR

Round 2

Cervera is rushing in at the bell with a wild scooping underhanded right on the body. Villa quickly reverses his own momentum to make Cervera miss with his lunging shots, then steadies his balance and starts to line up his counters, taking aim, popping them off and moving before Cervera is able to close the distance. Nice counter right hook by Villa bouncing off the orbital bone as Cervera is running in. Cervera is pushing out jabs, blindly chiseling away in one spot as Villa drops to one side and smoothly navigates around him, countering with jabs & 1-2s. Nice right hook downstairs by Villa ducking in beneath Cervera's plane of attack. Villa now leading with right hooks, with Cervera on the backfoot and looking gun-shy. Wide sweeping telegraphed left hook by Cervera, with Villa easily flitting away to dodge it.

10-9 Villa

20-18 Villa

 

I mean, you're missing (IMO) the biggest prospect on the card, so..

 

Round 3

Cervera is coming in behind the wavy jab and looking to spear in the right behind it after lulling Villa, but he is too lacking in hand speed and his opponent too sharp & on-the-ball with his defensive reflexes. Villa starts opening up, pecking Cervera into the ropes. Villa starts really dinging the left cross between Cervera's eyes, bouncing his skull backward, and yet he remains wary as Cervera loads up on can-opener desperation counters with his back on the ropes. Villa steps off the gas pedal and lets Cervera roam out to center ring again.

10-9 Villa

30-27 Villa

 

Round 4

Cervera is obligingly walking into all of Villa's traps, eating southpaw 1-2s, left uppercut leads, and right hooks whipped onto his outer hip. Cervera just keeps pressing in, always jabbing a beat too late, after Villa has already stamped him on the nose with a couple of quick straights and receded beyond his reach. Villa coming in and out like an oceanic tide, leaving Cervera perennially off-balance and wriggling his limbs out with ineffective fury like a hermit crab flipped upside down in a pocket of beach sand.

10-9 Villa

40-36 Villa

 

Round 5

Cervera is jabbing listlessly up top, discouraged by all his misses but not getting any faster. Villa ducks and weaves his way inside and repeatedly bops Cervera on the face with right hooks. Villa is slicing & dicing his way in past Cervera's jabs and increasingly wide & reckless trawling uppercut combos, and landing his own sharp 1-2, snapping Cervera's head back with a hard jerk. Villa is standing in more, letting Cervera lump on sloppy body shots along the waistband as he works him over with chopping lefts and short right hooks in the pocket, often bashing through his guard or cue-balling his gloves into his face.

10-9 Villa

50-45 Villa

 

Round 6

Cervera is having a hard time squeezing his palms together as Villa keeps sticking in that spatula right jab, darting in, disappearing, and resurfacing almost behind Cervera. Massive difference in both hand & foot speed as well as nimbleness here. Cervera looking rocked as Villa continues to land flush lefts as both crosses behind the jab and high solo tomahawks from a crouch at mid-range. Left hand, right hook by Villa ducking in, wading through a sloppy wide Cervera flurry, rocking him onto his heels. Villa is ripping a triple right hook into the side now, almost turning Cervera completely around with it. Cervera gets in a couple of clean shots, his only pair of the round with under twenty seconds left after Villa has landed dozens on him already.

10-9 Villa

60-54 Villa

 

Cervera's trainer DKSAB.

"You gotta be more rough in there! What's going on? Challenge him..."

Uh, your fighter has no energy, if he goes any rougher and he will collapse from exhaustion. What's going on is you've fed him to somebody he was ill prepared for, because you never taught him the fundamentals of boxing or how to negate being disadvantaged in athleticism or speed (let alone having someone also have solid fundamentals to boot, compounding that advantage). He literally physically can not challenge him at this point (maybe a few rounds ago, if you had sent him in with a game plan, and even then he would've needed to get lucky), and you need to start waving the white towel.