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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4242423, member: 289"] Spence beat up Ugas for 9 rounds before the ref finally stopped it in the 10th. It was a battle of a guy with a jab vs. a guy without one. Spence out-landed Ugas 216-96 according to the official punch count. I thought it was much worse. Spence just out-worked Ugas, who kept looking for the perfect counterpunch and finally just was so damaged he couldn't even do that. Ugas had one good moment in the 6th when he hit Spence in the neck, causing him to expel his mouthpiece. Spence thought the ref was calling time out to retrieve it and got knocked backwards by a follow-up punch by Ugas. He fell against the ropes. The ref then did call time out to get the mouthpiece, allowing Spence some recovery time. Spence then went into a defensive posture for about a minute, then went back to work. As the color man said, he threw not only a variety of punches but a variety of combinations from a variety of angles. It was too much for Ugas, who really became the worse for wear in the later rounds. Spence is not an explosive puncher when fighting a top-level fighter but every punch matters and by the end of the fight Ugas was almost unrecognizable with this right eye closed by swelling and his left eye getting there. His face was so red he looked like a burn victim. I was worried that the fight might have a tragic ending and felt they should have stopped it the first time the doctor examined Ugas. He was hopelessly behind in the scoring, (I had it 89-82 and the judges were similar), and no longer really fighting back but they let it go on for another couple of rounds before they finally did stop it over Ugas' protests. He's a game competitor, perhaps too much for his own good. Spence looked fully back from his accident and lay-off, much better than he did against Garcia. Now there's only one thing to do: match Spence and Terrence Crawford. I think they're the two best fighters in the world. [/QUOTE]

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