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After the first four rounds, Oleksandr Usyk had landed 7 body punches while Dubois had landed 1. In the fifth round, Dubois put Usyk down with a punch that was ruled a low blow, but upon replay looked like a legal punch on the beltline.
Emanuel Navarrete and Oscar Valdez went to war in Arizona. The volume of Navarrete was too much for Valdez in the end. Navarrete was 216 of 1038, 21% compared to 140 of 436, 32% for Valdez in total punches. In power punches, Navarrete went 176 of 604, 29% and Valdez was 114 of 318, 36%.
Although Paul and Diaz landed almost the same amount of power punches, Paul’s punches were generally harder. Paul had an easier time setting up his power punches, connecting on 48% of them, while Diaz landed 39% of his power punches.
Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue - they're now referred to as 1 & 1A among pound for pound pundits. Who did it better?
Terence Crawford put on a magnificent performance against Errol Spence. This was all Crawford . In the end Crawford was 185 of 369, 50% in total punches, he went 87 of 206, 42% in jabs, and an unreal 98 of 263, 60% in power punches. Spence was down in round 2 and twice in round 7. In round 9, referee Harvey Dock had seen enough at 2:32.
Naoya Inoue, the pound-for-pound great from Japan, knocked out WBC/WBO junior featherweight world champion Stephen Fulton in the eighth round Tuesday at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Inoue is now a four-weight world champion and is 20-0 in world title fights.
In the ESPN main event, former unified lightweight world champion George Kambosos scored a majority decision over IBO Maxi Hughes. Hughes was 98 of 338, 29% in total punches compared to 90 of 471, 19% for Kambosos.
Jared Anderson averaged 37 punches per round - far less than his 63 punches per round career average. This reflects Charles Martin being the best opponent Anderson has faced so far.
Usually, Teofimo Lopez is very judicious about his punch output, but in this fight, he averaged 43 punches thrown per round to Josh Taylor’s 23.
Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez are accurate with their power punches & both thrown less than 50 punches per round and land around 15 per round- who will push the pace?