Rendall Munroe v Victor Terrazas-WBC eliminator(Sky Sports 1, 10pm)

Big Ears

Our old friend Rendall Munroe takes on the biggest challenge of his career tonight when he faces Mexican Super-bantamweight Victor Terrazas in a final eliminator for the WBC 122 lb title.

Munroe's European title reign has been crowded with mediocre opposition with only two opponents up to true European standard(Simeone Maludrottu and Kiko Martinez) and then there was of course the very poor Isaac Nettey to win the Commonwealth title. I personally felt he was lucky to come away with the decision last time out against Maludrottu and had the Italian a 116-113 winner.

However the judges found in favour of Munroe and having won that fight(which was an eliminator for the WBC title) he now finds himself in this position against the little known Terrazas.
Having watched Terrazas he is no superstar himself, although not a bad fighter he has slow hands and is a bit predictable in his approach. Never the less he has a good solid jab and can seemingly bang quite hard, he's also quite big at the weight(although smaller than Munroe).

Being honest this is probably a step up for both men and neither really deserves to be in the position of one fight away from being Nishioka's mandatory. But in that position they are, and they seem to me to be a very evenly matched pair. I think we're in for a good hard gruelling 12 round fight tonight which should be a good watch(even if it does get a bit ugly or crude at times).

I'm expecting Munroe to pull out a very close(split and controversial) decision.
Home advantage may just do it for him.


On the undercard, Beijing Bronze medallist and former Kenny Egan foe, Tony Jeffries takes a step up in class against hardened journeyman Nathan King.
king has given hell to recent British title level fighters Steven McGuire, Tony Dodson and Kenny Anderson, losing to all 3 by just a point. He also gave James Degale his best fight to date(lasting the distance and not making things easy for him at all). Don't be fooled by king's record, he'll come to win and Jeffries will have to work hard to get the biggest win of his career.

Former British champions Carl Johanneson and Young Muttley also feature.

alanceltic

i too seriously believe munroe is pants but worry that he could beat this guy and the "angry midget" will ramp up the ****e talk if he does!

digme

Mexicans getting his jabs off first,looking good.

Feargal as Luimneach

cagey start by Munroe... He better start being a bit more adventureous

digme

Ya he's very jerky all right.
He'd want to get his straight left going.

dlofnep

Stream here: http://www.justin.tv/boxingzonextra#r=h3MOvAw~

alanceltic

followed my gut feeling that munroe is sh_ite and got the mexican at 11/4

Munroe has nothing to offer and looks clueless!

Feargal as Luimneach

First four rounds Terrazas

digme

Fights over....
fair play to munroe for changing tactics.

alanceltic

wot the fcuk is the mexican doing????? he needs a right bollocking from his corner...hes just standing there like an idiot!

Feargal as Luimneach

Munroe could KO Terrazas.. Last two rounds for the Binman

Feargal as Luimneach

Terrazas doesn't have much heart... He just gave up WTF?

dlofnep

It's over. Ref stoppage.

Big Ears

Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »

Terrazas doesn't have much heart... He just gave up WTF?

he got up and was willing to continue but he did look disheartened cause he knew the score. Munroe was too strong for him physically and he just couldn't do anything when he was bulled back and held in the ropes.

Nishioka will really do a job on Munroe though, I expect him to stop him with consummate ease.

alanceltic

the mexican was really in his comfort zone in first 4 rounds but made a critical error of opening the door for munroe in rd5. Munroe really did look like a fighter who didnt believe in himself and looked like he had zero confidence until the mixican decided to make himself a sitting target for round5. Couldnt believe it really, he didnt know how to box on the inside but apart from that didnt even try to get the figh back at long range.

Munroe done well after that but critically he was out of the fight until the mexican gave it to him on a plate, his next fight wont come so easy

walshb

Munroe looked pretty good tonight. You gotta admire his commitment, conditioning and tenacity. He is also a very strong fighter. Broke that guys
heart in there. I like Munroe and hope he does well.

Am I mad to think that Munroe has the size, strength and CHIN
to do well vs. Poonsawat?

digme

walshb wrote: »

Munroe looked pretty good tonight. You gotta admire his commitment, conditioning and tenacity. He is also a very strong fighter. Broke that guys
heart in there. I like Munroe and hope he does well.

Am I mad to think that Munroe has the size, strength and CHIN
to do well vs. Poonsawat?

Your barking mad to even entertain such a thought.
Poonsawat wouldn't break a sweat with munroe.

joepenguin

Was unable to catch tonights fight but dont think he could hang with the big boys. Much like Dunne, the likes of poonswat and nishioka are out of his league (as would vasquez,marquea,jml and cab be if they were still in the division) but he could pick up a world title of sorts along the way, especially since its a less competitive than it has in recent times. He is a decent operator alright and a solid european champion

Big Ears

alanceltic wrote: »

the mexican was really in his comfort zone in first 4 rounds but made a critical error of opening the door for munroe in rd5. Munroe really did look like a fighter who didnt believe in himself and looked like he had zero confidence until the mixican decided to make himself a sitting target for round5. Couldnt believe it really, he didnt know how to box on the inside but apart from that didnt even try to get the figh back at long range.

Munroe done well after that but critically he was out of the fight until the mexican gave it to him on a plate, his next fight wont come so easy

I feel your not giving Munroe enough credit here, it was Munroe who changed his tactics in the 5th not Terrazas. He got pushed backwards and bulled onto the ropes like most Munroe opponents, and just like most Munroe opponents(except maludrottu at times) he wasn't technically good enough to find a way off of them. From the way Terrazas fought the 5th I think he felt Munroe was just giving one big push to try and turn the fight around and that he'd tire. But after that he hadn't a chance of getting off those ropes no matter how much he wanted to.

Walshb you are indeed mad, Munroe might be able to do that against fringe World guys, but when someone hits as hard as Poonsawat, and can put combinations together as freely as he can then the 'catch punches with your face' game than Munroe likes to play in the early rounds means he could be out of there before Poonsawat's even warmed up.
If if he did give away the customary 3-4 rounds that he normally does and made it through without somehow taking a horrendous beating, I still feel he'd struggle to implement that holding and pushing tactic on Poonsawat aswell as anyone else.

Poonsawat is so effective on the inside and as he showed against Dunne can still land decent punches while in part of a clinch. If Munroe's chin held up he'd still lose almost every round in a decision loss and despite how well he's been doing recently, the fact Trotta and Matirosyan shook him has me believing he mightn't take Poonsawat's punches as well as you think.

Munroe's chance of a World title left when Marvin Sonsona got stopped.

dlofnep

I think Munroe has a good chin. I didn't expect him to beat Martinez. He's probably better than we have been giving him credit for in the past year or two.

jimjo

Lads we have to give Munroe credit here, for a start the Sky boys were saying he was in full time training and off work for 6 weeks to prepare for this fight, wtf, six weeks? Dunne was always a full time fighter, albeit earning more money, at the same stage as Munroe is now in. The whole binman thing makes a good story and his fans and cornermen in the luminous jackets is funny and a little bit different. He is limited and i dont think he'll win a world title but not everyone is good enought to win one. He seems like an honest decent lad, in touch with his fans, which says a lot.

After four rounds I thought here we go Munroe never really tested before, steps up and freezes on the bigger stage. Not sure what the mexican was doing standing there in the 5th onwards, kept looking at his corner and I thought he just didn't fancy it from there on in.

Tony Jeffries made tough work of King didn't he. Just 6 fights since the games, I wonder how far he'll go... Got to take your hat off the King a very good journeyman who comes to fight. Really better than a journey man.

walshb

So I am mad?

Cordoba went the full route, as did the man PK beat
recently. Look, Munroe has shown me that he has a great engine, is physically strong, big and imposing and has a very decent chin. I never said he would win, though I think he would pose problems for the much smaller PK.

Big Ears

walshb wrote: »

So I am mad?

Cordoba went the full route, as did the man PK beat
recently. Look, Munroe has shown me that he has a great engine, is physically strong, big and imposing and has a very decent chin. I never said he would win, though I think he would pose problems for the much smaller PK.

yep. If you'd like to see how a crap version of Poonsawat would do vs Munroe watch the Munroe vs Matirosyan fight. Munroe could maybe go the distance, but he wouldn't be competitive.

dlofnep

Agreed, Poonsawat is too crafty.