00:00All right, getting set here for eight rounds of action in the Super Welterweight division, 154 pounds.
00:18Ryan Main spent a lot of his camp in Miami, wanted to get some different style, learning some Cuban teachings.
00:25He's hoping to bring that style to him, but as you can say, a country boy, fan of bow hunting, and hoping he can hit a bullseye here against Escalante as these two get off here for round number one.
00:45Jermaine twitching right into the south-west stands here. Going back to the right-handed. Does he do MMA? A lot of MMA guys come from doing that. Does he have a background in MMA?
00:53He's been boxing since he's about 18. He got up here to Central Florida to learn from Craig Duncan.
01:00He's been boxing for years, but as coach mentioned, Derek Santos said in this, we know that he is a southbound that does like to switch a lot.
01:07That is something that they were prepared for coming into this.
01:10He didn't have no feel-out process either. He just came straight out, both stances, throwing punches. There he goes again.
01:16Yeah, you've got to be careful when you've got a tall guy switching stances right in front of him the way that Main is.
01:20Yeah, that rangy right hand can find you.
01:26And when Escalante gets going, he's a pretty good combination puncher. He likes to let those long arms fly.
01:34Tell you what, the Main may have the right point of view here if he continues to try to back up Escalante.
01:39Although Escalante now following him. Try to be physical and back up Escalante.
01:43A lot of times, the tall man can't really get himself set or start setting you up in that way. He gets comfortable.
01:51Again, when you're fighting the taller guy, it's always be all the way in or all the way out.
01:55Don't hang out in that middle distance range. Main's doing a good job of being explosive and closing that distance or being all the way out and moving.
02:01Backing up Escalante like that. Even the awkward annoying punches can sometimes back up an opponent because you can't get a timing on you.
02:09He looks for some space after getting backed out, backed off.
02:13Ryan Bingham gets a right hand to the body in the conventional stance.
02:21Escalante with the left as they back off.
02:27Escalante, nice body shot there with the right hand.
02:29And that was where he did get some leverage.
02:32That was well placed.
02:34And he caught actually Main while he was.
02:36And a body shot again.
02:38Right, and he kind of rolled with it, but he couldn't get away from the body shot.
02:42You see now Main fighting out of the orthodox position.
02:44It's hard to tell what stance he's actually in. He changes so often.
02:48South 4th, North 4th.
02:49The way it works.
02:52Escalante's starting to let go of some power himself though.
02:55Escalante's got those long limbs coming back at Main.
02:57Who's ducking in and trying to find some clean shots there.
03:02Escalante, 6'3 for 154.
03:04He's got great height for the weight class.
03:09He's training Derek Santos mentioning in the lead up to this
03:11is that they want to get Escalante to take advantage of those long limbs
03:15because he naturally likes to fight on the inside.
03:18Yeah, that's the best place to be when you have those long arms
03:20that take a long time to return home, back to defensive posture.
03:30Main switching, switching back.
03:32He's wasting a ton of energy doing steps like that for no reason.
03:36I'll tell you what, he's probably trying to keep Escalante from getting set.
03:44He's a David boy.
03:44Might have grown up a Marlins fan like Luis Castillo on the 2003 champion switch hitter.
03:50He's got that going on.
03:51Talk about those guys around here.
03:56They beat the Yankees in the World Series.
03:57Hell, you know.
03:58It's all we got, Paulie.
04:00It's all we got.
04:00It's been hard times besides that.
04:05The Yankees got Giancarlo standing now.
04:07They got Jazz Chisholm.
04:07They got everybody.
04:08I'm sure they'll get Sandy Alcantara, too.
04:11You think you've got Judge.
04:14Well, they had Judge on their own.
04:16They were already good with that.
04:25Ryan Main living in South Florida for about eight years.
04:31In Central Florida, excuse me.
04:32But he did go move down back home for this one for a couple of months to get ready for Escalante.
04:38Escalante does train in South Florida.
04:40Been in the U.S. for a little over a year.
04:46Another Pro Box TV along this form of our air a few fights ago.
04:53Understood that he was going to be in tough tonight with a six-foot-four, 17-fight veteran in Escalante.
05:03Main with the right hand up top, trying as they're hit to go to the body.
05:07Nice hookup top by Ryan Main.
05:10And an uppercut gets through as he switches back to southpaw.
05:20Main doing a really good job, like I said, last round.
05:22Be all the way in, be all the way out.
05:24A little low there.
05:28Chris Young checks on him, and they're back to action.
05:32He's got an offbeat rhythm, though, man.
05:34It does Main.
05:35You know, Escalante, you can see.
05:36If you start setting with him, you throw a right hand like that, you get some leverage on those shots.
05:41But Main continues to move in awkward ways and throw Escalante off.
05:54Sometimes there's a little two-step dance for him.
05:57Oh, you see what Escalante does.
05:59He'll leverage.
06:00You hear those thudding shots getting into the body.
06:03And we've seen some good accuracy from Escalante.
06:05When you have a guy that busy guy is in front of you,
06:07just, how hard is that just to find your, pick your spots,
06:11know where it is in time to land because he's putting all that stuff and switching sides in front of you.
06:14Well, it is. It backs you up.
06:15You know, Escalante, a lot of times, it gets backed up.
06:17Because some of his physicality, like here, with Main.
06:19But it's something that is just the confusingness of Main himself.
06:23And you just start backing off because he's throwing punches from weird angles.
06:26And you start backing up.
06:27And a lot of times, a guy like Escalante, if you back him up,
06:29maybe becomes ineffective.
06:31But once Escalante is able to set is when he gets dangerous.
06:34That's why Main continues to try to back him up any way he can.
06:37Yeah, Main, this kind of style, which is kind of no style,
06:40is hard to prepare for, right?
06:41You find a sparring partner like this, it's basically a street fight.
06:44Yeah, and sometimes by the time you figure him out, the fight's over.
06:47You know, and that's sort of where he's having the success here in this fight.
06:50It's, you see, he'll land the occasion shot,
06:52shoulder in a little bit, back up Escalante.
06:55Sometimes he doesn't shoulder,
06:56and sometimes he'll switch stances to a couple of combinations.
06:58That's where Main needs to be careful.
07:00On the way out, the right hand.
07:03Oh, body shot down, Escalante.
07:06The count is going.
07:07He is, looks like he is in trouble.
07:09Chris Young has count them.
07:11He is in a lot of pain.
07:13And it does not look like he is getting up.
07:15The main event, Ryan Main.
07:17The bad body shot, that's a good win.
07:20That's a good win.
07:20You can see Main has a fun style.
07:25And there's, but you can also see there's a lot to work with here.
07:29You know, he's a little bit raw, but he's got a lot of fight in here.
07:33And his style is entertaining, man.
07:35He engages.
07:36And you see that right there, the way he just ended that fight,
07:39that was a real exclamation point.
07:40Because you were still wondering if this fight was going to get tough on him,
07:43and the way Escalante was able to sometimes leverage his shots when he did get set.
07:48But then there were times where Main was in there and make Escalante look bad.
07:53So it was back and forth, but he still felt like the fight was up in the air.
07:56And to end it like this, really, really good exclamation point.
07:59You could have gave Escalante a 30 count.
08:01He's still, still sucking air.
08:04It's got to be a liver shot.
08:08Yeah, it was on the opposite side of where we are, so we didn't get to see the exact shot.
08:12We'll take a look here.
08:18Ryan, man.
08:19You can see it with the left.
08:21It was two hands.
08:24Right hand, left up.
08:25Right hand, left up.
08:26Oh, no.
08:27That's, no, he just grabs the opposite side.
08:30That could be a broken rib.
08:32I've been hit with a shot like that before.
08:34You get scraped on the opposite side with the left hand.
08:41Scraping shot.
08:42Look, Enescalante still really uncomfortable.
08:45Ryan, man, going over to check on him.
08:47That's very possible, broken rib.
08:49Advantages and disadvantage is to be a long and lengthy with a close hold.
08:52Yeah, long target.
08:54Long target.
08:55A lot of real estate to hit.
09:00Yeah, he just went straight down.
09:01Yeah.
09:03And he stayed down.
09:04He was down for a while.
09:05He's still, he's really uncomfortable now even in the corner.
09:07He still has his head down, asking for air.
09:13Ryan, man, making the early crowd here at Silver Spurs happy.
09:18As the hometown kid gets a victory here early.
09:21Let's go to Lupe Contreras for the official decision.
09:23Ladies and gentlemen, inside the Pro Box TV ring, referee Christopher Young reaches the count of ten with an official time of two minutes.
09:33Thirty-nine seconds of round number two.
09:36Ladies and gentlemen, inside the Pro Box TV ring, referee Christopher Young completes the count of ten with an official time of two minutes, thirty-nine seconds of the second episode, declaring the winner by way of KO.
09:51The ass-kicking country boy, the main event, Ryan May.
Be the first to comment