Valdez win Conceicao. Nakatani destroys Acosta.

Tucson Arizona, a few hours ago ended the match valid as the first official defense of Valdez for WBC super featherweight.

The match was very balanced, if we had to decide it by the face well what to say, the signs are very evident on the face of the Mexican, marked by a big right hand towards the final part of the match. Oscar has always looked for the opponent, with the plan to put that strong left hook to the face, in several circumstances he succeeded in placing it to the body, but he went several times to no avail, we seemed to see Canelo in the execution, lacking here however precision and concreteness.

The match was tactical, very unexciting, in some stretches yes, but there was a great respect and a certain concern on both sides. Conceicao has been Olympic champion, he knows how to box, he lacks for his misfortune the adequate power, to make him shine, otherwise Valdez would not have finished the match; but the great coach knew this, so he proposed a game plan with, moderately, high risk, given the non-power of the Brazilian and the jaw of Oscar;

phases of study, work with the jab to bring the right fast right and movements to escape from an exchange face to face, where he would have lost: this is the tactic of Conceicao, on the other hand Oscar always looking for the strong shot, stubborn, stubborn, not caring about the shots. In our opinion, he would not have won the match by card, certainly if Conceicao had won, or if it had ended up even, there would have been no scandal. There was no real supremacy. The Brazilian lacked perhaps, a more impressive approach, that is, he did his actions, he put back the blows, he brought the series, but he did a continuous work where he went to look for the champion, to tie him, or rather not to make him work, and this does not like the judges, who usually read it as an attitude of non-fighting, and it is penalizing for the result, or better if Conceicao, had been the champion, well, another matter, but here he had to show that he wanted to take the belt, and have a different attitude.

Strange really because even the victory of Oscar does not seem demerit, the idea of always going to look for it, to want to push, to try always, to bring incisive blows, here is the failure to express a supremacy on the square, well maybe re-analyzing a draw would have been the best result, among the public Canelo, who knows what he thought?

Top Rank and Valdez go ahead, an official call for the Brazilian nothing for Oscar, who in our opinion if he had made a match a little bit different, that is as he does careful ready to replicate and move without looking for that strong blow, which does not belong to him, would have won better, but it is our projection. There is talk of a challenge between the winner of Jamel and Shakur…we will see…

In the rich undercard the Japanese Nakatani really destroys Acosta a very good element, defending his WBO flyweight title and launching a message, important: there is a new strong man in that category we will see some nice challenges, the Japanese has that style of indomitable warrior that the Americans like, cunning, with punch, great physicality, we will see some good things.

cover photo by BOB NEWMAN