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Post by realview on Jul 19, 2020 7:46:35 GMT
Real View intro:Hello ladies and gentlemen; this week the BBU saw action in Cardiff with three top fights, we review those three fights and we will focus on a future star in our eyes. 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: *Catalina Otalvaro vs Dorota Rabczewska* *Mollie King vs Jade Ewen* *Vogue Williams vs Leah Francis* And *One to watch out for: Hailey Clauson* Remember to keep your eyes out for more amazing BBU action coming this week, as always we hope you are all safe and wishing you the best from all of us in the BBU.
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Post by realview on Jul 19, 2020 7:47:59 GMT
Part 1: Catalina Otalvaro vs Dorota Rabczewska
This was the long awaited fight between two bantamweights both seeking a chance at the gold, months of trash talking and threats led to Wednesdays main event.
Catalina has been on a rampage this year so far, looking like the fastest rising prospect of the year with knockouts glory, punctuated by her victory over Vera Brezhneva several months ago that started the beef between her and Doda.
Who has been wanting to get her BBU bantamweight title back over a year, Catalina though catching her eye, she threw the first insult on the way to this fight, ending up with a true grudge feel.
The opening round set the pace for the fight, both women came out hard looking to fight, it was an evenly fought round as Catalina looked good boxing, Doda trying to bully the younger woman into submission.
Round two saw the first big moment of the fight, Doda coming out too recklessly, eating an absolutely beautiful three punch combo that sent her to her backside, she got up at six more embarrassed then outright hurt.
Back came Doda later on, smartly she kept pushing Catalina back towards the ropes or corners, stopping the more fleet footed Otalvaro from being able to move and jab her head off.
Though in round four Doda would show her legendary do everything to win mentality when she low blowed Catalina in the fourth to send the Colombian model to her knees, she would do the same in the fifth to the disgust of the Catalina corner.
But Doda got too cocky, instead of finishing off the wounded Catalina, she proceeded to show boat instead of throwing her big hooks that got her a title around her waist before.
That led to a comeback by Catalina, who kept punishing Doda for her mistake with beautiful precision and power to bust up the future hall of famer.
Round nine saw the end for Doda, whose failed attempts at cheating were met with brutal hooks that sent her down to the canvas, she gamely tried to stand but her legs were rubby and down to her back tumbled the former champion to give Catalina her most impressive win so far.
It was certainly a dramatic back and forth war, Catalina deserves so much credit for gamely fighting back, the moral as well as the actually victory was truly won by Catalina.
While Doda only has herself to blame, first the low blows were uncalled for but maybe showed a little desperation on the veterans side, who was getting knocked back around the ring without seemingly an answer.
Even when she had the advantage, the ego of Doda got in her way, she needs to sit herself down and watch this fight, if Doda is to reach the top again then she needs to get fully focused again, this version won't achieve her goals.
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Post by realview on Jul 19, 2020 7:49:14 GMT
Part 2: Mollie King vs Jade Ewen
This was surprisingly the opening bout to Wednesdays card, both these women are arguably still well and truly in the title hunt, former title challenges who with a win over the other firmly get themselves in that driving seat towards another shot at glory.
It was nice to see no trash talk between the fighters in the build up, their eyes were firmly on the prize here, touching gloves without incident before the bell, their expressions of pure determination told you this was going to be a good clash.
They kicked off the fight with a showcase of their hand speed, both landed some peaches of combos to the others faces, Mollie looked to be working harder to take the round.
Back came Jade with some beautiful counters, especially her hooks under the ribs of the beautiful blonde, who definitely didn't enjoy taking hits so cleanly around those.
In the third round Mollie got Jade cleanly with a left hook that sent the former "Sugarbabe" down to her side, Jade got up at six with eyes full of fury at getting put down.
Mollie looked comfortable at first in the next round, till again Jade landed her counters to the ribs of King, who looked to be in trouble by the end of the round as she whispered to her coach something we couldn't hear.
As it turned out Mollie's ribs were in a bad way, still she kept going trying to keep Jade back, that only lasted the first two minutes before a right hook to the ribs sent Mollie down to her knees for a count of six.
She lasted to the sixth round before after being sent down with another body shot, the referee mercifully stopped the fight before Mollie sustained some truly terrible injuries to those ribs.
This was a hell of a win for Jade, Mollie again finds herself looking from the outside due to her not sustaining her push, you can argue she was unlucky to get injured, except she wasn't injured by a slip, it was due to the beautiful counters to those ribs by Ewen.
Who must be a step closer to another title shot herself, the flyweight division is becoming a crowded field again, Diana Korkunova has been a hell of a champion, could Jade stop her reign?
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Post by realview on Jul 19, 2020 7:50:41 GMT
Part 3: Vogue Williams vs Leah Francis
Arguably over the past twelve months both these women have gotten the forgotten treatment by managers, Vogue defeated Rozanna Purcell and has to watch her national rival sign for the Double A boxing stable.
While Leah was a promising welterweight but maybe suffered from the fact that she is a dangerous floater in the division, so has been black balled nigh on to just watch the welterweights duke it out without her till now.
Maybe they simply don't like each other or they had plenty of pent up rage from their treatment in the division, trading insults and threats before they even threw a punch.
Coming together Vogue quickly learned the fearsome power of Leah, she isn't a speed demon but Leah kept smacking Williams straight off the opening bell, sending the Irish fighter down with a right hook with just under a minute to go.
Vogue made it to round two, though she got hammered again till she went down for the count of eight, at this point her corner should have threw in the towel, instead they had to watch their fighter get pounded down by another right hook to end the fight.
We then got the reveal that Leah has signed with the Frankie Foxes, now she has a fight for Hayley McQueen in the future, which is nice to see for Leah, that will be a real hard hitting exchange between two sluggers.
Vogue meanwhile again gets to watch someone get signed while she is left behind, she didn't expect the power from Leah and only she can be blamed for that, hopefully she can dust herself off and go again.
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Post by realview on Jul 19, 2020 7:51:32 GMT
Final Part: one to look out for Hailey Clauson
We have been looking at the young fighters coming through the rankings over the year, this week we turn our spotlight on one of the fastest rising models in the world, Hailey Clauson.
She has been gracing the covers of Sports Illustrated, while in the ring she has been fighting here in the BBU and back over in her home country in America in the FCBA.
Debuting back in 2017 against Bo Krsmanovic, she lost but gave the future BBU welterweight champion a hell of a fight, both women left the ring that night sore to say the least.
Later that year she would get revenge on Bo by knocking her out in six, that was arguably her biggest victory to that point after testing fights against the likes of Kelly Gale and Toni Garrn.
Since then she has went on to defeat the likes of Kelly Rohrbach in just five rounds, Abbey Crouch in four and Yasmin Verheijen in six rounds, getting quite the record in the BBU of twelve wins in sixteen fights, knocking out all that have been unlucky to meet her hard hitting fists.
The fact she has been doing boxing training before she joined the Sirens stable shows, she has a beautiful jab and generates some real power through her hooks and uppercuts, the Sirens have done a hell of a job getting rid of most of the flaws she did have to make her a fearsome fighter on her day.
The only issue that she really has now is she sometimes loses focus due to her temper, if she can keep her head in the more personal fights, she could very well become an elite fighter and certainly a champion, keep an eye out for her.
That's all we have time for guys, thank you for taking the time to read these posts, we hope you enjoyed them and we'll see you next Sunday for the next edition of the Real View, remember to stay safe.
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