Round-by-Round: Cecilia Braekhus vs. Jessica McCaskill - August 15, 2020

[Ruthless-RKO]

Live from Tulsa in Oklahoma.
Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing USA Present: Cecilia Braekhus vs. Jessica McCaskill
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Full Card

Unidisputed WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO, IB World Female Welterweight Championship
Cecilia Braekhus (36-0, 9 KOs) vs. Jessica McCaskill (8-2, 3 KOs)

12 Round Super Welterweight Contest
Israil Madrimov (5-0, 5 KOs) vs. Eric Walker (20-2, 9 KOs)

10 Round Junior Welterweight Contest
Shakhram Giyasov (9-0, 7 KOs) vs. Wiston Campos (31-7-6, 19 KOs)

6 Round Middleweight Contest
Nikita Ababiy (8-0, 6 KOs) vs. Jarvis Williams (8-2-1, 5 KOs)

6 Round Featherweight Contest
Raymond Ford (5-0, 2 KOs) vs. Eric Manriquez (7-10-1, 3 KOs)

[Ruthless-RKO]

Is anyone gonna watch this card!l? Or shall
I delete this thread?

I’m assuming fans in the States might tune into Showtime instead.

[asmund]

Maybe Ill stay awake

[gregregegg]

Pretty keen to see madrimov, he seems like a solid talent. But it’s clashing pretty bad with UFC I think.

[Perseus]

McCaskill gets a majority decision upset in an entertaining but sloppy fight.
Close fight, I had it 96-94 Jessica.

After the decision Braekhus almost seemed to be relieved to no longer be champ. She did not declare retirement but she did say "if I fight again".

[margaret thatcher]

Congrats to baby gurl Jess

[imaioral]

Great fight.

The mistake/flaw of Cecilia was to get into Jessica's infight strategy for almost 6 rounds when actually she is a defensive counter punching distance boxer and even with a few good close rounds inside Jessica's gameplan, Cecilia still lost and decided to change plan only after mid 6th round, too late, she could have won.

Jessica came very prepared, showed heart, good speed, power, punching volume, head and body movement along with an average bob and weave, but lack of footwork, accuracy, overall defense and counter punching, in the end, deserved the win.

In my analysis and scorecard, I had Cecilia 1 rd ahead, but with the possibility of a draw and an almost possible Jessica victory.

[Perseus]

Definitely a close fight that could have went the other way.
My scorecard watching on tv was one point off the judges. They had it 95-95, 97-93 and 97-94.
The dazn scorecard?
Lol.
Mora doesn't even keep track of the rounds so you know he's not serious about his own scorecard and I dont think Grisham takes anything seriously.
Jessica was throwing a lot of amateurish, reckless punches................and landed a fair number of them. It's safe to say Cecilia's defense was lacking when she kept getting tagged by those kind of punches.

I don't know how many times I've seen Lawrence Cole in the ring but it's a lot and this was one of the few times I thought he did a good job.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Definitely a close fight that could have went the other way.
My scorecard watching on tv was one point off the judges. They had it 95-95, 97-93 and 97-94.
Jessica was throwing a lot of amateurish, reckless punches................and landed a fair number of them. It's safe to say Cecilia's defense was lacking when she kept getting tagged by those kind of punches.

I don't know how many times I've seen Lawrence Cole in the ring but it's a lot and this was one of the few times I thought he did a good job.

Yeh, she threw waaay more punches, but even landed less than Brækhus if I’m right..

Connect % was all Brækhus too.

[Perseus]

The punch stats had Cecialia landing one more punch than Jessica.

[Ruthless-RKO]

The punch stats had Cecialia landing one more punch than Jessica.

Ahh right..

[blanca]

Her grandad Ian would have been very proud of Jess (one for the old brits)

[Rgoodwin]

The punch stats had Cecialia landing one more punch than Jessica.

Yeah but it was Jessica's punches that looked much bigger and rocking the First Lady's head back. McCaskill won last night.