World boxing history challenge Week 2 - Ruben Olivares vs Chucho Castillo

[davie]

Week 2 - Ruben Olivares vs Chucho Castillo 1

https://youtu.be/b2pj3a4ZHzo

[Counter-puncher]

Good fight, I'll watch it soon as i can

[davie]

Week 1 - Leonard/Hearns. http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=207995

Main thread - http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f ... e#p4571725

Supplementary fights
I did intend showing Castillo vs Olivares 2 but then I read the result of this one cause riots, fires and cars over turned in the car park.
Chucho Castillo vs Lionel Rose

https://youtu.be/OEEWSBnTod8

I wont bother with another Olivares fight. He faced lots of greats but I think 2 x 15 rounders is more than enough

[handsofstone]

Olivares/Castillo 1 is a really good fight, a lot of action with both men slugging it out for 15 rounds,the rematch is great too,just a pity their 3rd fight isn't available

[davie]

Olivares vs Castillo

1. 10 - 9 Olivares. Quiet opener
2. 10 - 10. Even. Castillo ahead until late few punches
3. 8 - 10 Castillo. Had Olivares winning comfortably till KD
4. 10 - 9 Olivares, lot of missed shots from Castillo
5. 9 - 10 Castillo. Much better round. Catching olivares coming in with right uppercuts
6. 10 - 9 Olivares. Got stronger as the round progressed. Nice work with the left hook
7. 10 - 9 Olivares. Landed some solid body shots late on.
8. 10 - 9 Olivares. Real phone booth stuff. Hard to score but just felt Ruben digging in the heavier body shots
9. 10 - 9 Olivares. Castillo mainly on the back foot but finding it harder to stay off the ropes
10. 10 - 10 Even. Olivares looking arm weary
11. 10 - 9 Olivares. Castillo almost did enough towards the end to nick a share.
12. 9 - 10 Castillo, fended him off with the jab in first half. Had to dig deep to keep the round as it got up close
13. 10 - 9 Olivares. Similar to many rounds, persisrent pressure paying off, just a bit to much for Castillo
14. 9 - 10 Castillo. He doesn't want this on the inside but he's showing huge heart to keep banging away
15. 10 - 9 Olivares. Spent part of this round on the back foot, think he knew he had the fight won

145 - 141 Ruben Olivares.
Much like Fighting Harada we watched last week, Olivares refused to take a backwards step. More often than not he was successful in backing Castillo down and we saw some lovely infighting, body shots, hook and uppercuts fighting on the ropes. For the action this was where the fight was at it's best, both men acquiting themselves well but I felt Olivares looked the stronger so probably won that battle.

But it was the fight in the middle of the ring I enjoyed best.
A battle of left hands mainly. Chuchos jab was a good scoring shot and also his best weapon for keeping Olivares off to keep the fight open.
But the best shot for me was Olivares left hook, often set up by a left feignt or pawing jab, he had great success with that left hook, often to the head but sometimes to the body. He used it to get into range, often following it up with a varied right hand. But that left hook gave him a lot of joy in that fight.
It was that battle which summed the fight up, but more often than not I felt Olivares won it and got his man where he wanted, up close and banging away and that's why I had him reasonably comfortable. Had it not been for that flash knockdown in the third, I'd have scored it 3 rounds wider.

I'll have to watch fight no 2 as I'm intrigued to see how Chucho turned it around. Short of a sub-par performance from Olivares or a genius tactical masterstroke, I don't see how he wins it.

[Counter-puncher]

Yes both men were real left-hand-artists

[Counter-puncher]

It's really a clinic on fifteen round fighting, both men know it's going to points as they won't stop the other man, the pace isn't frantic but it's constant and measured

[elmersalsa]

These two fights of Ruben Olivares vs Chucho Castillo were a teaching text book for any young fighter in how you fight inside. They gave a boxing infighting clinic!