TruTV Friday Night KO: José Benavidez Jr. vs. Jorge Páez Jr. RBR

Taylor ripping some counter left hooks up top, shoulder level, turned over perfectly. Orozco needs a long moment to clear the cobwebs each time he eats one.

 

Yeah, they've completely swapped roles.

 

Total connects through nine:

Orozco 190
Taylor 144

 

Bradley has it 86-85 Orozco, Taylor banking the last two.

 

Orozco is looking to set traps, lazy-jabbing and jerking away from Taylor's counter jab to counter the counter with his own jab - but lacks the quickness and timing needed to pull it off. That, and Taylor has begun to figure out what he's doing, and is switching up to body jabs, sapping the wind from Orozco a bit. Nice adjustment by Orozco, feinting a jab and catching Taylor with a short hook. This has calmed from a pier-6 brawl into a chess match, oddly. Both still working, showing ample stamina, but thinking in there. Both want to assert themselves and put a stamp on this final three minutes, but neither is selling out going for a KO by swinging for the fences.

 

A-scorecard reading we shall go.

 

Bradley has it 96-94 Orozco.