Results from Dubai (Jalalov and Nietes)
Just moments ago we finished the first ever Probellum show, and the card was certainly a notable one with severa1l big Asian names on the show.
One of the big Asian fighters on this card was Uzbekistani giant Bakhodir Jalolov (9-0, 9) who needed very, very little time to stop the over-matched Julio Cesar Calimeno (4-2, 4), from Colombia. The fight started with the two men feeling each other out, until Jalolov landed a big straight left hand, dumping Calimeno on to his backside. It was clear have beaten the count, but he chose to not even try, taking the count whilst sat on the canvas.
After such a one sided beat down we then saw confusion, controversy, and the now typical weird scorecards that we're seeing week and week out now a days.
The bout that saw some very odd scoring was a bout for the WBO International Super Flyweight title, as Filipino great Donnie Nietes (43-1-6, 23) took on former 2-time world title challenger Norbelto Jimenez (30-9-6, 16). The early rounds of the fight were Nietes, as he battered Jimenez through the first 5 rounds, and seemed on his way to a stoppage win. Jimenez showed resiliency, but was out boxed, hurt repeatedly and looked out of his depth through the first half of the fight. He also wasn't helped by Nietes landing some hard, albeit accidental, low blows.
In round 6 Jimenez managed to get some success of his own, and to his credit it was pretty sustained success, although he did eat plenty of counter shots from the Filipino in the process. It was a good bounce back round from the 30 year old Dominican, but wasn't enough, and it seemed very much like the same occurred in rounds 7, 8 and 9.
The strange things happened as Jimenez seemed to take round 10 off, giving it to Nietes with out putting in anything resembling an effort in what was the final round. It was a strange round that, even if he had won rounds 6-9 clearly, he would still have given the bout away.
It appeared however that Jimenez and his team had believed the bout was a 12 rounder, and not a 10 round, explaining the bizarre way he fought round 10.
After several minutes of confusion we finally went to the score cards which were 96-94 to Jimenez, 96-94 to Nietes and then 95-95, leaving us wonder what the judges had been watching. It seemed a clear win for Nietes, but some how the judges, as they've been doing regularly, saw something else.
One of the big Asian fighters on this card was Uzbekistani giant Bakhodir Jalolov (9-0, 9) who needed very, very little time to stop the over-matched Julio Cesar Calimeno (4-2, 4), from Colombia. The fight started with the two men feeling each other out, until Jalolov landed a big straight left hand, dumping Calimeno on to his backside. It was clear have beaten the count, but he chose to not even try, taking the count whilst sat on the canvas.
After such a one sided beat down we then saw confusion, controversy, and the now typical weird scorecards that we're seeing week and week out now a days.
The bout that saw some very odd scoring was a bout for the WBO International Super Flyweight title, as Filipino great Donnie Nietes (43-1-6, 23) took on former 2-time world title challenger Norbelto Jimenez (30-9-6, 16). The early rounds of the fight were Nietes, as he battered Jimenez through the first 5 rounds, and seemed on his way to a stoppage win. Jimenez showed resiliency, but was out boxed, hurt repeatedly and looked out of his depth through the first half of the fight. He also wasn't helped by Nietes landing some hard, albeit accidental, low blows.
In round 6 Jimenez managed to get some success of his own, and to his credit it was pretty sustained success, although he did eat plenty of counter shots from the Filipino in the process. It was a good bounce back round from the 30 year old Dominican, but wasn't enough, and it seemed very much like the same occurred in rounds 7, 8 and 9.
The strange things happened as Jimenez seemed to take round 10 off, giving it to Nietes with out putting in anything resembling an effort in what was the final round. It was a strange round that, even if he had won rounds 6-9 clearly, he would still have given the bout away.
It appeared however that Jimenez and his team had believed the bout was a 12 rounder, and not a 10 round, explaining the bizarre way he fought round 10.
After several minutes of confusion we finally went to the score cards which were 96-94 to Jimenez, 96-94 to Nietes and then 95-95, leaving us wonder what the judges had been watching. It seemed a clear win for Nietes, but some how the judges, as they've been doing regularly, saw something else.