Vladimir Igorevich Shishkin vs. Sergey Khomitsky & Vladimir Saruhanân vs. Ziyoyidin Toxirov RBR

Round 2

Saruhanân is turning his opponent with a dizzying, nonstop orbit, showing off his superior foot speed. Toxirov is caught by a series of hooking lefts & straight rights dribbled in at mid-range from various side angles, still having a hard time keeping Saruhanân in front of him. Toxirov manages to perfectly time a hard jab that gets Saruhanân's respect momentarily. Toxirov is bending forward and whipping rights at the body underneath Saruhanân's guard, then applying his arm like flypaper around Saruhanân's waist and pulling him in close, dropping some forearms and rabbit punches on him until the ref orders a break. Saruhanân on his toes again, crop-dusting with quick pot shot jabs or short headhunting combos, all while moving laterally like a human air hockey puck on a cushion of air.

10-9 Saruhanân

20-18 Saruhanân

 

Round 3

Saruhanân is starting to pepper in some body shots now, hunching in with a turtle shell up over his face, cleaving a path with his stuck-out elbows, then hooking Toxirov in the liver and stepping out with a parting straight flurry on the face. Toxirov is leaning to his side, attempting to load up on diagonal uppercuts to clip Saruhanân on the bottom of the jaw coming in, grazing. Saruhanân is now crossing his arms over his face to block Toxirov's jab, taking a few sideways baby steps and morphing into more of a Philly shell, and slashing at the waist of Toxirov with a low-slung left hook. Toxirov is clobbering down with a gavel right hand, darting in abruptly to break up Saruhanân's rhythm, hitting behind the head a couple of times and duly warned by the ref but also connecting semi-cleanly on a couple of legal chopping rights.

10-9 Saruhanân, closest yet

30-27 Saruhanân

 

Round 4

Saruhanân is using the four corner defense, bringing Toxirov on a guided tour of the sponsors' logos by each turnbuckle. Big overhands being hurled in by Toxirov, who appears tired but is still delivering big power & bad intentions on every swing. Combinations to body & head now by Saruhanân, most of them built off a quick high-thrusting jab from a semi-crouch while strafing left, braving the inside, sensing a little give in Toxirov's resistance, a bit of spacing between his shots, exploiting that gap by landing a couple of gnat stings and getting out. Saruhanân is hitting without getting hit, name of the game.

10-9 Saruhanân

40-36 Saruhanân

 

Round 5

Toxirov has dropped his arms, baiting Saruhanân, hoping to bash him en route with a big axing right, keeping it sheathed on his distal hip. Saruhanân is cheekily leading with left hooks from outside, leaping in, scuffing the kisser of Toxirov and then receding in a deep squat, keeping his upper body & head below Toxirov's comfortable punching altitude. Saruhanân is doubling jabs into Toxirov's face and then bobbing & weaving around Toxirov's sluggish & predictably straightforward return fire.

10-9 Saruhanân

50-45 Saruhanân

 

Round 6

Saruhanân is on the attack, weaving around Toxirov's jab as though in the Matrix, his upper body movements fluid but not particularly fast, but appearing so in contrast with the stilted kinetic flow Toxirov's wearied limbs. Toxirov is maneuvered into a corner where Saruhanân bows forward and claps him on the nose with a no-look overhand right, setting Toxirov's neck to wobbling around like a sprung jack-in-the-box. Vicious body dig combos from Saruhanân, not letting up, keeping Toxirov pinned on ropes all round and peppering him below the guard. Toxirov soaking it all up, refusing to stop fighting, jabbing and shooting errant rights past the head of Saruhanân even as he creates endless countering opportunities for the still relatively fresh Armenian, whose engine has slowed from the early rounds but has plenty left to keep plugging away until the final bell.

10-9 Saruhanân

60-54 Saruhanân

 

Official cards:

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UD (almost unquestionably) for Saruhanân

 

...and there goes the stream...

 

Yeah. Saruhanân vs. Toxirov was a decent fight and I don't want to look a Wednesday afternoon live boxing gift horse in the mouth, but I'll be pissed if that's all we get and Shishkin vs. Khomitsky ends up blacked out due to either technical difficulties or just gross negligence on the part of Patriot Boxing's social media guy...

 

Touché.

 

According to your running order we're probably missing Alex Mazur vs. Ruslan Panayev (light welterweight 4-rounder, a Russian vs. an Uzbek in both men's pro debut) right now. I'm okay with that. Just as long as they get a stream back up & running before the Ghost starts his ring haunt...

 

Alright, it's now been over 20 minutes since they cleared the ring in the wake of Saruhanân vs. Toxirov, which is plenty of time for a 4-rounder to have begun & ended...

Getting nervous about missing the main event, now... @Somachenko have you turned anything up yet? I'm staking out the Yamburg Media channel on YT, nothing..