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Easter predictably waiting because he's sampled Garcia's crisp punching and power. He wants no part.

Starting to go into survival mode.

Round 6

Decent Easter jab early.
Garcia left hook lands mid round.
Right to the body scores for Garcia in the last minute.
Garcia takes it to Easter on the ropes late in the round.

5-1 Garcia

diddy wrote: ↑29 Jul 2018, 00:00 Easter is trying to Devon Alexander his way to a win with a bunch of range finding taps. That’s not going to beat Garcia in LA.

That wouldn't beat Garcia in Ohio.

Easter "looks" busy but very little of it is effective or damaging.

Garcia hasnt lost a round since the 2nd.

maybe the best round for Easter as far as effective punches, but Garcia rallied at the end of the round and stole it. I have it 5-1 Garcia.

Showtime is being awfully friendly to Easter. This fight isnt nearly that close. He is losing clearly.

Round 7

Garcia not throwing much for the first minute and a half.
Easter scores with right uppercut.
Garcia right hand gets through late in the round.
Not so sure Easter respects Garcia's power so far.

6-1 Garcia

Round 8
Easter popping out the jab early.
Solid Garcia jab.
Garcia using the left hook last minute.
Garcia very predictable and lacking intensity and not really going for it.

7-1 Garcia

No longer scoring this. Its not close.

Round 9

Both opening up mid round.
Body shot hurts Easter last minute.
Another body shot hurts Easter.
I think Garcia knows where the weakness is now.

8-1 Garcia

Garcia's greatest strength is his boxing brain. He is an incredibly SMART fighter.

Round 10

Garcia right hand forces Easter to hold on.
More than one time Easter has smirked at the power of Garcia's straight right through the guard.
Not sure why Garcia has abandoned the body attack, very odd.

9-1 Garcia

Round 11

Garcia winning easily but his strategy is so predictable and potential opponents will be able to manipulate him if he continues to box like this in the future.
Nothing new nothing fresh nothing unexpected .

Garcia 10-1

Garcia has no athleticism, he's not fast, but his power and ring IQ is insane.

118-109.

And cashing that +145 DEC ticket.

Mexi-Box wrote: ↑29 Jul 2018, 00:31 Garcia has no athleticism, he's not fast, but his power and ring IQ is insane.

His IQ and his technique are basically perfect. But he needs to keep his ass at 140 tops.

Round 12

Garcia land right hand mid round.
Easter continuing on the retreat with his usual flick out jab.
How many times Garcia has thrown the 1-2 jab straight right through Easters guard and got little out of it I can't remember.
Garcia won the round but that's back to back fights now where he's looked very predictable.

11-1 Garcia

Easter was not bad at all in this fight. Landed on Mikey quite often but the power was never there to keep Mikey honest. Mikey was just running all over him in the last 5 rounds

Scorecards

116-111
117-110
118-109

Garcia wins a UD

I had it 117-110. Easter did well in the first half, worn down and the wheels feel off in the second half of the fight.

Isn't it great to be predictable....and still win in lopsided fashion?

I had it 118-109 Garcia.

Seemed disinterested at times. Never really felt threatened.

Only thing that surprised me was Easters toughness. He took some big shots. Garcia looked sharp in the early rounds and then kind of became a bit predictable as the fight went on, but he really didn't need anything more with the opponent in front of him. Garcia is clearly a top 3-5 fighter on the planet right now, make the Lomachenko fight.. NOW.

How trainer Robert Garcia couldn't implement any kind of sustained body attack strategy is beyond me, he should have known to make Mikey go to the body once he'd narrowed the distance.

Ii think they were expecting Easter to fight a different fight. Still, Mikey threw some vicious body shots on the ropes. It wasn't consistent, but the only difference it would've made was that it might've been a KO instead of a lop-sided decision.

SenorPipino wrote: ↑29 Jul 2018, 00:38 Isn't it great to be predictable....and still win in lopsided fashion?

I had it 118-109 Garcia.

Seemed disinterested at times. Never really felt threatened.

It maybe nice now but if I were a potential opponent there's plenty of things to take advantage of.
Don't get me wrong Garcia won clean but at the top level there are higher expectations because there are boxers who can take advantage of these weaknesses.