Rios - Alvarado and undercard RBR

[Tarkus]

Non televised portion is streaming free right now on http://www.toprank.tv/index.jsp

Its a great idea from Top Rank to increase viewer numbers beyond a handful people present at the arena.

[crusader]

Thanks for that.

[Tarkus]

Ukrainian Olympian Oleksandr Gvozdyk is next. Should be interesting.

crusader
You welcomed brother.

[Tarkus]

That did not left any questions, did it? lol

Very good performance by Gvozdyk against a pretty decent opponent.

[crusader]

Yep...good stuff from Gvozdyk. He made Cummings look much worse than he is.

[Tarkus]

Only 5th fight but I can see him knocking on Kovas door within a year.

[Boxing Writer]

Beterbiev, Shabranskyy, Gvozdyk - there are some really promising prospects in the light heavyweight division.

[Tarkus]

Ponomarev is doing a young Mayweather impersonation. But I am not sure he has quite a necessary speed or sharpness to go with it.

[crusader]

Pretty good fight between Claggett and Ponomarev.

Ponomarev is doing a young Mayweather impersonation. But I am not sure he has quite a necessary speed or sharpness to go with it.

His defense certainly doesn't appear to be a strong point.

[Tarkus]

Yeah, no one is calling him a pretty boy, not since round 4 anyway. I am not sure about Talant either, whatever that is.

[Tarkus]

My goodness trainer pushed him so much he almost get knocked out in the last minute.

[crusader]

77-75 x2 and 78-74

Good scores. Ponomarev clearly took it in my opinion but he's got many improvements to make, especially defensively.

[Tarkus]

He is so green he pisses grass. But only 22 so he can perfect his game.

[Tarkus]

Shakhnazaryan looks very impressive. Very fast and accurate.

[Tangerine]

This is a decent scrap now.enjoyable to watch

[Tarkus]

Shakhnazaryan staying to long in the pocket against a power puncher. Its not going to end well for him.

[Tangerine]

Lopez open for the left hook every time,think the penny has dropped for Shakhnazaryan.

[Tarkus]

I dont know about penny but I saw Shakh dropped twice.

Mexican deserved to win.

[crusader]

4-0 Ramirez

Sharper and much better punch variety.

[crusader]

Ramirez comfortably ahead on my card going into the 10th but he's being tested.

[crusader]

97-93 Ramirez. He was in control over the first half but Vlasov picked it up late and had him looking weary in the final moments. It was his toughest fight that I've seen and his face shows it, but I think he took it.

[crusader]

96-94
97-93 x 2

Ramirez UD

[crusader]

Great atmosphere for Alvarado-Rios. The crowd is very vocal.

[Tarkus]

I have feeling Rios will put Alvarado into a lot of pain very soon.

[crusader]

Alvarado already getting beaten up in round one....bad start for him.