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Post by realview on Jul 22, 2018 7:34:21 GMT
Tom Hilton: Hello ladies and gentlemen; this weeks episode will be focusing on the action from the past week, an international flair came to the UK to make for some interesting fights.
We will be starting with Jessica Jane Clement and Ola Jordan, both women are people who haven't been in the elite level discussion but have been seen as people who could make that step up, who would make move a step closer?
Second up will be talk of JMD action, Charlotte McKenna was the first step in India Reynolds career, could India make the right first impression or did Charlotte show her whose boss in their stable?
Then we move to a battle of two underrated bantamweights, Poppy Drayton and Emma Rigby have sat on the sidelines way too long for their liking, so they needed to prove why they deserve more chances.
Finally we will discuss the fight between Melissa Debling and the debuting Catalina Otalvaro, like India; could Catalina show the world why she has been given the chance to fight or would she be taken down by the veteran?
In other quick news; the BBU PPV is this Wednesday, the BBU bantamweight championship will main event the card; as Helen Flanagan defends the gold against Nadia Forde.
While the welterweight title will also be on the line; Tamsin Egerton looks to somewhat upset the odds and dethrone Joan Smalls of the title and end her unbeaten run.
The card itself is part of this months international crossover theme, so plenty of interesting fights between stunning women from around the world.
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Post by realview on Jul 22, 2018 7:34:52 GMT
Part 1: Jessica Jane Clement vs Ola Jordan When I heard this fight was happening; I was very excited, both women are two top fighters who have for some reason never found that extra level to be a champion yet, so it was hard to guess which of these two would win.
If I was a betting man; Ola had the better record of the two, so you'd probably go for her but Jessica has had the better opposition throughout her career it could be argued.
Early on in the fight it was Ola who looked the better fighter, her dance training allowed her to dodge the punches thrown by Jessica, till late in the first round; Jessica swarmed her opponent to force her onto the ropes.
With Jessica taking control of the fight with her aggression allowing her to keep Ola on the back foot, the model keeping Ola from her flexibility and pounding her to the face.
Till Jessica makes a mistake and Ola cracked her on the jaw with a right hook to the chin, which led to Jessica take a knee in the 4th, Jessica taking the 8 count and looking furious.
The fight then turned into a slugfest; with both women getting right into each others face, I can tell you that the crowd was loving it as everyone stood up around me and roared for both women.
Jessica suddenly changed her tactics, Ola certainly has a JMD build but she looked stunned when Jessica started to take tactics from JMD fights to pound the jugs of the dancer, digging away to the body as well.
That led to round 8, both looked tired but Ola didn't look anywhere near as agile, leading to Ola getting caught with a barrage of hooks that put her on all fours and that was all she wrote for this fight, Ola failing to beat the count and just having to look up at the victor raising her fists in the air.
Jessica promised a good time for Ola after the fight, well for herself in true Page 3 trashy style, though I'd be lying if I didn't want to be a fly on the wall for that.
This shouldn't be something that Ola should be too disheartened by this loss, this was always going to be a tough fight for Ola, so she can rebuild from this loss.
Though there is still questions of why she can't find that level to get into the elite, she needs to find that out soon as she isn't getting younger it has to be said.
While this is a big win for Jessica, she has broken her losing streak and can maybe work her way back up the rankings, maybe even make a run at the BBU flyweight or JMD title soon enough.
Though she needs to keep training hard and use her boxing brain more, she showed some real smarts in the ring to adapt and win or she will be back to square 1.
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Post by realview on Jul 22, 2018 7:35:31 GMT
Part 2: Charlotte McKenna vs India Reynolds (JMD) Since the JMD division was fully made real with a champion, it has been steadily growing since last year, these two could be two women to look out for in the division if they put a good foot forwards in this fight.
Charlotte hasn't had a good career so far though, losing every fight so far and when you hear her stable was thinking of cutting her, well she needs to improve quickly.
Especially as her stable pitted her against their new recruit in her debut, several people have told me that physically India looks very impressive, could she adds the skills.
Both certainly fit the JMD criteria; so the crowd couldn't complain about not getting their moneys worth that way, would the fight itself be any good though?
Well Charlotte surprised India by putting up a good defence and working from behind it to give India a good taste of these style of fights, wobbling the jugs of the young woman with repeated punches.
Charlotte kept giving India a lesson as the fight wore on, with India getting her hands going on the inside, but Charlotte kept using her experience to force India to step back and work the rack with vicious shots.
Round 4 saw India begin to work thongs out; showing impressive footwork to outmanoeuvre Charlotte, she started to catch out her rival with real vicious shots of her own.
Uppercuts began to rain under the jugs of Charlotte to really hurt her, the blonde couldn't stop the assault and took a knee in the 6th round, getting up but telling the referee that she submitted, giving the fight to India.
That is an impressive way to start your career, making an opponent quit shows that you have some real power at your disposal.
The only issue I had was she needs to learn to use that footwork and her jab to measure opponents up, it's great rushing opponents and getting in their face, but she was getting guard too easily coming in, that will come with experience hopefully.
While Charlotte doesn't have a bad base technique wise; problem is that she hasn't the physical strength or mental to really be a danger to the majority of fighters, maybe only the Faiers sisters would be good pickings for her.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the bantamweight and JMD corps of the Page 3 girls, lots of infighting for spots?
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Post by realview on Jul 22, 2018 7:36:02 GMT
Part 3: Poppy Drayton vs Emma Rigby This was a fight between two women who have not had the greatest of luck finding fights, in fact this was the first fight for both women over the past year, so both needed to remind us what they bring to the table.
Poppy has started her career in fine form, losing only 2 fights in a 10 fight career, those were to Laura Vandervoort and Elodie Frege, not the best of the best currently.
Which clearly spooked her management team into putting her into deep training instead of learning in the ring, with other fighters in her stable at this weight getting more fights.
While Emma has had a strange time of things; two years ago she was in the Hollyoaks tournament, she was doing well in that, so well that the legendary manager Miss Ginny took her under her wing.
Now though she is on her own after her flirting with America ended up being a bust, which is why this stunning blonde has sat out the past year.
Both women came out strong; not much sign of ring rust as they got stuck into each other early, Emma looked the more comfortable as she took the early lead with her aggressive strategy.
Poppy though came back at her in what would become somewhat a back and forth fight, with each fighter going on a good run till the other adapted and took back control.
In round 6; the tide finally took a turn where a right slammed across the chin of Emma wobbled her and she ended up being put down to her knees.
Emma did get up to show her toughness, sadly for her fans though, she couldn't stop Poppy putting her down again, this time she couldn't beat the count.
This was a good fight for both, they got to work out kinks and Poppy will especially be happy that she was able to beat a fit opponent.
Emma may need to think about moving to flyweight in future, she has great speed in the bantamweight division, but she seems outgunned by the bigger punches.
While Poppy needs to get a run under her belt, which isn't going to be easy when you have the FCBA bantamweight champion Kaya Scodelario, the unbeaten Olympia Valance and the future hall of famer Clara Morgane to compete with for attention from management.
I just hope I get to see both get more fights, they are young, fit and rarely have had bad fights from what I have seen, but like their careers outside the ring, their careers in the ring have become let's say not what they wanted after being successful early.
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Post by realview on Jul 22, 2018 7:36:41 GMT
Final Part: Melissa Debling vs Catalina OtalvaroThis was the debut fight for Catalina; the BBU has really took the South American to heart with the current BBU lightweight champion and the BBU welterweight champion from that continent. Standing in her way was Melissa's Debling, who finally started to string results together in 2015, but has since been mostly quietly on getting fights and when she has been fighting, well it hasn't went well. The fight itself was certainly not one for people who like to go get a cup of tea and settle in for a long fight, Melissa started the fight off terrible as she kept her guard way too low, Denise telling me that maybe she thought she was in a JMD fight. Whatever was going through her mind; Catalina just battered Melissa as if the English fighter owed her money, she rocked her around the ring. In only two rounds; Melissa was down twice and the second time saw her manager and coach Melinda throw in the towel to stop the demolition that her fighter had suffered. Now I don't want to be a buzz kill, Catalina certainly has the power but it has to be said, Melissa looked like she had never been in a fight, she was basically a punch bag for Catalina to abuse with her vicious shots. I will hold back on praising her yet, get her in the ring with someone who can keep their guard into a position where they block punches, so let us wait and see on this prospect. On that note; that is the end of today's show; hopefully this was fun for you guys and we see you guys when the next Real View goes up next Sunday.
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