TVMax: Ricardo Antonio Núñez Pérez vs. Eduardo Pacheco & Daniel Matellón Ramos vs. Mario Andrade RBR

Round 1

Soto bringing it to Pedroza, aggressively hooking up top with both hands. Long whipping right hands by Pedroza, lashing across the backside of Soto, who now begins to scythe into the body. Lead rights on the gut by Soto falling in, looking to break the skinny Pedroza in half. MASSIVE uppercut by Soto, thrown from too far away, missing by at least half a foot as Pedroza dips and slides backward. Nice reach-around body shots by Pedroza, bracing up against Soto and bypassing his guard with a lowered arm. BIG 1-2 by Pedroza, hurting Soto. Drilling him with more straight punches against the ropes. Soto flailing to defend himself, but Pedroza is all over him. A dozen or so unanswered shots and Soto collapses into the ropes, held up by them as well as the physics of Pedroza continuing to prop him up with punches. Soto lucky there. Ref doesn't give a count, but could have.

10-9 Pedroza

 

Alright, that was pretty fun.

 

Kin?

 

It really weirds me out that after each round they mute the audio (while TVMax is cutting to commercial on the simulcast), leaving us to just watch slow motion highlights in silence...and sometimes they forget to switch it on until 30 seconds into the next round, and then just abruptly toggle it mid-sentence with the commentators yelling. Very jarring, and bad for my anxiety.

 

Wilner is absolutely not here to suffer the fate of his fellow Colombians. Whether his reach in altering his fate exceeds his grasp remains to be seen. I've got him down in a hole, 20-18, but something tells me he isn't here to beat Pedroza on points...

 

Anybody know what "Mamá Mila" is? Pedroza has that printed on his trunks.

Sponsor? Nickname? His...actual mother's name?

 

Pedroza gets hit too much. I thought he shaded round three, but he kept his arms down pretty much the whole time. Granted he threw a ton of body shots, but still, there was no effort to protect his face in between, and he's lucky that Soto was a little too uncoordinated/smothered by the close distance (and Pedroza's shoulders accidentally dropping low and bumping him on the nose) to capitalize.

Especially as long and tall as he is, shame he isn't being taught how to get the most of those advantages.

 

Lowwwwwww blow. Soto the savvy veteran going to give himself a moment to get composed, as the rules allow.

edit: time in and Pedroza lands ANOTHER ONE. Are you kidding me?

 

Ref docks a point from Pedraza. That's fair. I don't think he was ever warned, but Soto had literally just recovered from the previous one (landing not a minute earlier, a brutal if not flagrant nut shot) and this was just an unhinged wide uppercut between the legs with no regard for aim or control. Just very irresponsible from Pedraza, if not intentional.

 

39-36 Pedroza

 

I refuse to dignify the nominal main event status of this match by inserting their names into my RBR title.

Although it has been fairly entertaining, and perhaps the most competitive match we've seen tonight. (outside Leosdan's)

 

I just noticed that in Pedroza's last fight - his first time going the distance - he was dropped early by an 11-11-1 guy...

Maybe not such an impossible dream for Soto to remove the judges from the equation, then...

 

I mean, I'm quite admittedly biased here, being unabashedly a fan of Cientifico, even though I realize he was given about 1.7 meters of tissue paper to shred through and hardly broke a sweat tonight.

 

Then again, Soto has stopped naught but rabble at home in Colombia...with, even so, just 12 kayos in 26 bouts..