The Australian’s hooks met little resistance
The Catalan suffered for her lack of aim
The Australian Skye Nicolson defeated the Spanish Tania Álvarez by unanimous decision this Saturday and earned the World Boxing Council featherweight silver belt.
The scores on the scorecards that gave Nicolson the win were 98-92, 97-93 and 100-90. Skye now has an unbeaten record of six wins and Tania was left with seven winsone on the fast track, and a losing battle.
Álvarez was the first Spaniard to perform at the Hulu Theater Madison Square Garden, New York, where the fight took place.
The European started aggressive. With the left overhand as her main weapon, the somewhat bewildered Australian resorted to mooring to control each thrust.
From the second episode Nicolson landed powerful right handsDespite this, her rival did not back down, she tried to exchange blows, but the strength and aim of the Meadowbrook, Australia native ended up hurting her rival’s right eye in the fourth round.
In the fifth episode, Tania tried to exchange blows again, but Nicolson received her with combinations that mistreated the Catalan’s face even more.
The Australian reiterated with right overhands that penetrated the poor defense of her opponent; he completed his attack with hooks that entered at will in the soft areas of Álvarez, how brave, he did not back down.
mistress of the situation Nicolson kept kept a safe distance of the Spanish in the seventh. She marked time and time again with the jab to the face and dodged the attacks with a good waist game.
Despite Skye’s superiority, the Spanish boxer did not stop going to the front. With the broken guard attacked the body of his rival with right blows, although with little aim, although he managed to get Nicolson to show some fatigue from the effort in the eighth and ninth rounds.
Knowing that the cards were in her favor, the Australian controlled her opponent’s aggressiveness with continuous lashings against the ropes. Tania tried with right overhands to find the blow that would give her victory, but as happened throughout the fight, his lack of aim took its toll on him and he took the defeat.AND