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Post by realview on Feb 2, 2020 0:36:40 GMT
Real View intro:Hello ladies and gentlemen; this week saw the latest BBU PPV, five great fights with the flyweight title main eventing the card. As ever we urge you to go look up the fights from this past week before reading these posts, we don't want you ruining the fights for yourself. This is what we will be discussing: *BBU flyweight title fight* *Joan Smalls vs Doutzen Kroes* *Helena Mattsson vs Kelly Gale* And *Mollie King vs Inna* Remember to keep watch for more amazing action in the BBU over the next week.
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Post by realview on Feb 2, 2020 0:37:59 GMT
Part 1: BBU flyweight title fight The main event of the latest PPV was two years in the making, Jenna Louise Coleman and the champion Diana Korkunkova had fought once before, that was in the first ever Contender Six tournament, Jenna pulled the victory out in a hell of a fight that night, could she repeat that success and this time claim gold?
In that fight Diana put down Jenna in the fifth round, showing she could hurt Jenna, hell it was one mistake that wrote history in a win for Jenna, the biggest question was more how much had Diana improved since then with her three title defences under her belt going into this fight.
The one thing you can say without a shadow of a doubt is these two are very popular and while the title of course means the world to them, there was plenty of smiles along with respect shown by both as they spoke before the fight.
Of course on fight night things become more tense, as shown by how even the opening two rounds were, Diana being slightly more aggressive then usual, Jenna though showed her skills to come back at the champ in the later part of both rounds.
Round three was the first massive moment of the fight, Jenna was sent down after a peach of a right hand slammed into her head, she battled to her feet at seven, again though Diana reminded the world she could hurt the future hall of famer.
Things quickly turn around and round five saw Jenna put down Diana, her body shots seemed to be hurting the champion and giving her more openings to work with, again the fight evening up seemingly.
Back and forth these proud women went, blood run from different wounds on their faces as the crowd was electric for this slugfest!
Finally the biggest turning point of the fight happened, Jenna was sent down to the canvas once again in the seventh, she got up to beat the count at nine, the beating that followed though was brutal, thankfully the referee stepped in before Coleman really got hurt, giving Korkunkova her fourth successful defense in what is one of the great title runs in BBU history.
This is an early contender for fight of the year, it was action packed from start to finish; even though Jenna lost, she should be proud of how hard she pushed Diana, as Diana should be proud of stopping maybe the greatest flyweight in BBU history.
We know Jenna will be resuming her series of fights with Cheryl Cole, who may be thinking that with Jenna's hard defeat here that she can take heart from this fight for her own chances after a hard time in the ring lately.
While Diana looks imperious! I can't really think of a flyweight right now that can defeat her, though as last year showed in the bantamweight division, someone might emerge from no where to shock us all.
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Post by realview on Feb 2, 2020 0:39:59 GMT
Part 2: Joan Smalls vs Doutzen Kroes Two former champions went to war for the first time, Joan is looking for a way back to the title picture after losing her title to our current welterweight champion Bo Krsmanovic.
Across the ring from her was the former lightweight champion Doutzen Kroes, someone who has taken to welterweight boxing like a duck to water, her power has moved up with her along with her speed.
That made this a hard fight to gauge who'd come out on top, on the one hand Joan looked so dominant on the top of the division, she isn't though so it becomes how good can she be without the title to give her confidence?
Things started cagey between them in the opening round, Joan getting slightly the better of the action, most of it though was about finding out about any holes in the others defenses it seemed.
Things livened up in the next round, Doutzen started dipping down more to work the body of Joan, looking like she wanted to chop down the bigger woman to her size.
The more success Doutzen had, the more Joan looked to be getting frustrated at not hitting the Dutch fighter as easily, Doutzen getting a thumbs up from her coach after the first three rounds.
But Joan would show off her power, rocking Kroes in the fourth round, one that can only be described as a shutout as Doutzen couldn't find a way out of her guard to strike back.
Maybe that bred too much confidence in Smalls though, she came out looking to walk through Doutzen, instead she ate an uppercut that sent her down to her backside to the delight of the Lookout corner.
While Joan gamely fought hard in the sixth round, after being put down again by an overhand right, the referee stopped the fight when Joan was being pounded into the ropes, a good stoppage it has to be said.
After being so dominant in her early career, finally the questions are starting to come for Joan, while her power and boxing skills are first rate, her chin could be starting to be questioned and her confidence maybe should, yes she had Doutzen pinned back in round four, she left herself too open to a counter attack though.
Doutzen on the other hand goes from strength to strength, she has got to be in the top three contenders in our eyes for a title shot, especially with this victory on her record.
I will go out on a limb and say Doutzen might be the best pure boxing in the BBU welterweight division, she found different angles to strike from to emerge the winner in this fight, making her a dangerous proposition for anyone she comes up against.
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Post by realview on Feb 2, 2020 0:41:11 GMT
Part 3: Helena Mattsson vs Kelly Gale Like the main event we discussed earlier of the PPV, this was a rematch where in this case Kelly Gale was trying to prove how far she had come since losing to Helena in their first fight.
These two have always had respect seemingly for the other, that Swedish national pride to be the best though has always led to stinging words being exchanged anytime someone brings up the other woman to them.
What made this fight more interesting to some has been the soap opera type drama at the Girls Friday stable, Kelly is seen as the junior member of the stable it has been said, something she wants to break out of by having a shot at her stablemate and the current BBU lightweight champion Alessandra Ambrosio, something she has made public time and again to cause her management headaches.
If she wanted to begin really stepping out that shadow, this was the fight to begin that ascent, she begun the fight quickly showing off her impressive hand speed to give Helena trouble.
The veteran was trying to find a way to subdue Gale, it has to be said though that the opening three rounds went squarely to the younger vixen in this derby.
In the fourth though Helena finally found a way to really pound back Kelly, digging in a liver shot that clearly took some steam from the legs of Kelly, hooks started landing more from Mattsson.
Kelly though seemed to get back on top, even as some blood run down her nose, who would have guessed the way the fight was going to end then?
A brutal right hook landed square on the nose of Kelly, sending the youngster down to her backside holding her nose; while Kelly did get up, the damage was done as the ringside doctor judged that Kelly's nose was in too bad a shape to let her continue.
I've heard plenty of arguments since Wednesday after this fight about how lucky Helena was to win, at the end of the day she landed the punch as perfectly as she could, that's all that can really be said on the matter.
Kelly will feel hard done by I know, she left her guard too open though and her lack of power has made it questionable how far she can rise in a division with several big hitters swimming around the elite.
Helena meanwhile has her eyes on people like Elsa Hosk to claim being the undisputed best in Sweden I guess, she has a great point to build towards a title shot right now but still has some momentum to build in my eyes before she gets to that level.
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Post by realview on Feb 2, 2020 0:42:00 GMT
Final Part: Mollie King vs Inna We started the show talking about the flyweight title, here were two possible future contenders fighting it out on the undercard of the PPV.
These two have history to add spice to this match up, Inna made her debut against Mollie six years ago, it led to a miserable defeat for her, since then Inna has proven to be a dangerous floater for anyone in the flyweight division to take on.
Hell the build up to this fight saw each call the other everything under the sun, the weigh in nearly descended into chaos if not for security holding them back, all of that wasn't staged managed to sell a fight, these two truly and utterly hate the other being in their world.
The opening round showed how chaotic this fight was going to be, Mollie started well enough behind her jab, before Inna tried to make it a street fight by coming up the middle with nasty looking shots, while using her forearm and even looked like her head to batter the blonde.
Those street fighting tactics seemed to pay dividends when Mollie went down in the third, she crowd were shocked as they saw Mollie get up, nearly instantly she was crowded again by the Romanian fighter.
Mollie though showed her strength and savvy to come back at Inna, she landed some beautiful shots to send the head back of Inna, keeping away from the ropes as she knew once she was pinned there she'd be in Inna's game.
In the fifth a pinpoint right across the temple of Inna took her legs away, putting her down for an eight count, one round later and Inna was smoke when another hook sent her down for the count.
I won't describe the scenes after the fight, Mollie definitely humiliated Inna though, meaning this feud is far from over by a long shot in my and I'd bet anyone's eyes.
We have heard Mollie feels closer to a flyweight title shot, she is definitely an elite fighter in our eyes, can she get the job done though as in her previous title fight she fell short.
Inna meanwhile flatters to deceive again, she can't get over that hump to get into the title picture, beating Michelle Keegan in dubious circumstances looks like it might be Inna's career highlight.
That's all we have time for, thank you to everyone who took the time to read these posts, the next edition of the Real View will be back Sunday morning, we hope to see you then.
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