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****. Anyway, my technical incompetence aside, this is an awesome fight and probably my favourite Arbachakov bout.Watch it.First two parts mostly contain highlights of the Kittikassem title winning fight, as it's full broadcast. Quite a lot of Yuri stuff has been\currenty is on youtube.Any opinions oor rankings on him in general as a fighter?.
Haven't seen it, gonna watch it. Before I do, toss out some points of interest/general clashes of style for me to look for.
I don't know how much you've watched of Yuri before MCgrain, but the stuff i'd look out for on the strengths\weaknesses side of things would be... How relaxed and unflappable he is in general.Very mentally tough fighter, who definitely has the Sal Sanchez\Buchanan\Louis Pokerface thing going on. Smooth footwork: He sets everything up with a lot of subtle shifts and readjustments, on the downside does tend to back away without moving his head at times. Top 1-2 with a jab that can be heavy and a goodpoinscorer as well as a measuring stick for the straight right.He's got a very sneaky acounter right as well. Has a great left-hook but uses it far too sparingly imo. Is in that Sal sanchez\McCallum bracket where he can slip punches beatifully and look good defensively, but still gets tagged with a few big shots in the majority of rounds he'll fight. Chin is a compact boxer-puncher with pretty good speed and upper-body movement.He throws a lot of sneaky lead hooks and rights.Looks very talented and was unbeaten here, but this is the only fight i've watched him in.I get the feeling he wa suckered into being more aggressive than he would liked.Arbachakov uses his legs well to dictate things, but Chin adapts terrifically in the second half.
My raw notes: 1 - Yuri maybe misses more than he should do given Chin's orthodox shuffle and (non-reactive sometimes) bob and high but loose guard...maybe he cool? Has little luck with that left uppercut but he seems determined to chuck it across. Best punch of the round is his seemingly tighter right uppercut almost on the bell...up until then i think Chin maybe with that lead right which i think suits him. Yuri looks great and languid in terms of footwork but kicking up a lot of energy for little advantage imo. Silky small moves for space though and i like his targeting off the back foot. 10-8 Yuri 2 - Yuri opens establishing range with jab. Chin looks promisingly aggressive gets caught. Yuri very very cool against hurt opponent. Re-establishes jab and they look more serious punches. Chin comes back well bulling Yuri a bit who lands his first lead left uppercut. Yuri has better quality punches but Chin pressing well at - 90 secs. CHin has decent jab but underusing fear of being outjabbed? Yuri shows good control of range and trusts his feet. Yuri lands excellent body shots, brings his mans guard down, baits him in and shows why Chin reluctant to throw jab, perfect right hand counter, world class boxing. Brutal to the bell. Chin has heart, punch resistance. This goes the distance? How? Boy must be made of iron. Look at Yuri walk to his corner backwards!! Never takes his eye of his man!! 10-8 Yuri 3 - Yuri starts gently again, range-finding and moving. To keep his man off balance? Lands a good shot but gets cuffed and hit with great jab, slips about 5 half-made jabs, good head movement and balance. Close round if you like aggressiveness. Close round. If Chin had jabbed more perfectly in this round he could have won it but his jab was horrible, lurching, not nice. I give a very close round to Yuri based on cleaner punching, but you could make the other case I feel. Yuri takes the risk of losing awkward rounds by starting gently 10-9 Yuri 4 - Chin starts well aggressive he made of guts but Yuri drops him horrible horrible punch, straight right, makes a little bit of room and throws it straight down the pipe. Watched it a few times and he generates all the torque with his hips. He punches through beautifully and not a lot of it coming from his pivot. He really is two fighters in one. How to fight him. I think Chin fights him the right way then this happens. This goes the distance? When Chin dies they want to do an autopsy and see what he had beating in his chest. Unreal. He comes hurtling back. Not much on his punches but he right there. Yuri so horrible. His punches are deceptive. They are crippling without looking it and he has a lot of punches in his book. Horrible horrible body punch landed. Incredible. Chin wins the last minute of the round with persistance and punching and just will and stamina. he so well conditioned. Sensational round. 10-8 Yuri. 5 - Chin starts fast and sharp gets cuffed with a good right hand. Chin jabbing properly. Yuri missing for first time since second round. Chin wins first minute. Mad close round. Yuri established himself a bit but did move more than he has been in the middle part of the round. Chin started to flap a bit with his jab as Yuri looked to establish his. Chin on aggression. 10-9 Chin 6 - Yuri hits Chin very hard with right uppercut disguised left hook right hand. Such deceptively hard punches, horrible. Chin stilll ubreakable fighting back but looks momentarily out-classed in the pocket. Good right uppercut Chin with a minute to go! Is he maybe getting a bit better at reading Yuri's intentions and covering up/backing up a little when Yuri wants to slug? His jab so **** when he not balanced though looks like lamb to the slaughter sometimes but real good work in this round!! He scored some very hard punches in the second and third minute. I think he won that round on aggression and affective punching good punches landed. 10-9 Chin. 7 - Nothing much doing both look tired, it's a startling pace Chin has set and Yuri looks warey of engaging too much which has cost him one round on my card which went to Chin on aggression. Round up for grabs until last minute where Chin gets cuffed down! Actually scratch that re-watched it and he got hit on the point of the chin twice once by a jab and once by a right such a deceptive puncher Yuri. Chin ships more hard shots at the bell. 10-8 Yuri. Gonna grab some scran now will finish up in a bit, but yeah, excellent fight, cheers for the reccomend bro. I know Yuri is the great fighter here but i'm rooting for Chin. What heart! It's pretty one-sided through 7 but simply through virtue of his courage you can't say Chin is out-classed...he's there controlling the pressure...well...kind off. Looking forwards to 8 through 12.
Delighted to say I just scrambled my notes for 8,9 and 10 but basically Chin is a purebred pitbull. I gave him a couple of those rounds. He never stops coming. I think I wrote that he's the best conditioned boxer i've ever seen in my excitement. It's not THAT much of an exaggeration. He's never stopped coming, he's bulling and bulling because he knows he meeds this KO. What a thriller. In 11 he's actually dominating Yuri and really sending him on the run - not as part of his tactical plan as it has been IMO but just to get away from the horrible smothering bulldozing fighter that is literally running to him on occasion. Yuri showed signs of frustration in this round but his two fisted attack didn't keep Chin off. Guy just comes back. Horrible. I bet Chin could beat some really good fighters. Chin got smarter, too, not providing space for the flashy punches that dropped him. That time he got caught in the open post-pocket taught him his lesson. Anyway, absolutley thrilling stuff. Gonna watch the last round now.
Chin's head really did some damage in that round!!! He shouid have been naughtier with the head from round one, hehe. Great, thriling fight, grandstand finish. Tell you what Mantqueilla. 15 rounds. Your pick? The judges cards were quite mad, what did yours say, can you remember?
I just finished watching it , but didn't bother to score round by round as with the knockdowns and my memory of the fight i knew there was no case for Chin winning. Saw it much the same as you though.First 6 to 7 are mostly all Yuri and with the knockdowns Chin already needs the KO to win.Then he gives it a supreme effort and as you say really has Yuri looking a bit frustrated and tired near the end.I'd sy Chin edged about 4 of the last 5 for me. I got the impression from this fight that Chin had more polished skills than he was able to show.The knockdowns Yuri scored, especially the second one must have had him fighting through a haze for a while.A lot of fighters would have folded, but he just went all out. Chin would have had a good chance against Carbajal or Chiquita.
I bloody well agree with you. I can't get over his conditioning. To survive those first few rounds you need to be superbly conditioned. To survive and then bring that type of pressure late in the fight...unreal. I mean who else has rattled Yuri like that in terms of bringing out frustration?
I don't think anybody did. A lot of his other defences were quite close, some due to styles, and others because of general decline(relatively short prime is one of Arbachakov's biggest drawbacks i'd say).IN all of them he was more or less unflappable. Zamudio, Naam Hoon Cha and Sasakul are up on youtbe as well.The last two are great fights as well.Cha for the brutality and the troubles he gives with his awkwardness, and Sasakul for top-notch technical action.
was MCGrain the only one that watched this?.I know it's a heavyweight centric board but i thought there might have been a little more interest.
A good entertaining fight, but for mine it was pretty one sided as far as scoring goes. I had it 117-109 for Yuri. Arbachakov winning rounds 1,2,4,5,7,8,10 and 12. (Rounds 2,4 and 7 being 10-8 rounds). Chin won rounds 6,9 and 11 on my card. Round 3 was even I felt. Chin showed a lot of heart and determination, but it basically came down to Yuri shooting his shots from the shortest distance between point A and point B (a straight line) and Chin taking the long route with hooks that usually lost their snap by the time they reached their destination. Of course Yuri taking his legs away early on probably had something to do with that too. Chin outhustled Yuri in a few rounds, and did land some good punches it must be said, but on the whole Yuri was just too sharp and landed the vast majority of telling punches. In a way I felt this fight was kind of like the Trinidad-Whitaker fight. Both guys landed a heap of shots, with one guy showing a ton of heart, but the other guys' shots just had a whole lot more on them and with the knockdowns it didn't end up all that close on the scoresheet. Granted, Chin pressed Yuri more than what Whitaker did Tito, but I didn't feel that Yuri was out of his comfort zone all that much. Paced himself well and took it nicely in the end, even if Chin made him earn it.
i would love to watch it but Youtube dosnet work for me but RB is sending me a abrachakov disk so think this should be on it and i can watch it then never seen Abrachakov although i have been interested in him for awhile just never got round to watching him
