El Divino and Haney , new champ

David, he did his job very well against a very good Prograis who could do nothing against him…we were hoping for a few flashes from the reigning champion, but the technical-tactical superiority and the speed were really the keys to reading an incredibly technical but beautiful match. Haney likes southpaws, he moves well and manages to control them and not set them off, we didn’t think it would happen so easily even at this weight…but it did, a good match perhaps a little one-sided…but class is not water; to see him fight is like seeing a surgical nose job, in his movements and strikes.

EL Divino made an incredible match against Ramirez; Espinoza won the last rounds, but he made a fight of other times, always looking for the blow of the blows, remember that he went down in the fifth, but we do not know how he then always controlled the match; clear that when you fight against a two-time Olympic gold medalist, this one places blows from angles and with incredible speed; but the amount of work of the Mexican was superior; tactically Ramirez’s team made mistakes surely dictated by the fact that they thought they could fix the Mexican without a plan b anyway; all the moves on the left side favoured that right hand of El Divino that worked so much, but what struck us was the intensity, the unconcern, the taking of blows and putting them back in, doing and leading the action; a star was born in the sense that he is now in the firmament; great match, beautiful victory but what a match! We have not seen matches of such technical beauty and intensity, truly incredible.

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