Tony Victor James Yoka vs. Armand Carlos Takam & Thomas Faure vs. Daniel Azeez RBR.

Faure has a deep guard and a high guard, but Azeez is out to "touch" him here, quick, scoring punches - and a very nice right hand to the body. Faure doubling up the jab upstairs wants to be busy - lands a nice uppercut and ships a left hook, this id very decent, high pace, both looking to score rather than hurt probably, bit of the ams about it. A very good round Azeez scores with a meaningful right hand to the head in the final thirty seconds to maybe shade it for me.


Azeez:1,
Faure:

 

Round 1: Faure, 10-9

 

Good advice from McGirt, he has read this fight right. He's worried about the uppercut. Either way, Azeez opens a little more carefully, he's not rushing his work and he's trying to stay out behind that jab. Good short left hand is the result. Faure, too, has slowed down, maybe because he is not being rushed and cannto work inside but Faure looks disorganised going away through the first half of the round. Azeez has taken short term control of the fight, interesting to see what Faure comes with next - good left hook is the answer, but Azeez is untroubled. Faure has done well in the second hlf of the round, landed a good uppercut, but Azeez is not left behind and is bagging the aggression points.

This could get close-but-wide.

Azeez:1,2,
Faure:

 

Round 1: Faure, 10-9
Round 2: Azeez, 10-9

 

Lots of these certainly, but I'll go with Big George Foreman today!

 

Azeez comes out aggressive pumping out the straight left from the orthodox stance repeatedly almost in a jabbing motion before slipping in a few sneaky jabs on the Frenchman one of which appears to have broken at least one of his nostrils and is now pouring claret.

 

Azeez controls the real estate,Faure by virtue of deciding when to stand and fight will control the trading. THat's a weapon still and he tries to bring Faure onto that half-distance where he seems most comfortable, that Tyson distance. But the pattern of the fight favours Azeez - Faure has to take more steps and has to fight off the backfoot which is a bad looke ven if you are good at it. You can lose rounds you are doing well in unless you are really good at weaving punches. In this case, Azeez looks to be really wearing Faure already and although I think Faure did well in the third, i'm going to give the close round to Azeez because he was pushed back, loses all points for aggression, is not winning meaningfully in punches landed, though he did have a good final thirty seconds in that round.


Azeez:1,2,3,
Faure:

 

Round 1: Faure, 10-9
Round 2: Azeez, 10-9
Round 3: Azeez, 10-9