ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
Tank slumps Turbo fists 
I’d love to see it
I’d love to see it
2/8 PBC on SHO: Gary Russell Jr. vs Tugstsogt Nyambayar (WBC Featherweight Title)
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David_TheMan
Veteran
Man I could see grj beating tank, but its gonna take a hell of a gameplan and some rigo like footwork.like he slumped gamboa
Dont pull me into the cuban school thing. Lol
..its not a cuban school thing..its a tank struggling to get a faded injured fighter outta there and could only do it via mercy stoppage in the final round thing
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Depends how he will transition to 135. He is not the biggest 126er to begin with. But... if he has enough pop to at least keep Davis honest he only has to withstand the first 4-5 rounds where Davis is dangerous, after that he can win the fight purely off of better workrate. I also think GRJ is the more skilled out of the 2.
But that really only applies if he has anything for a 135er, he would jump 2 whole divisions, usually it's not a good idea.
So he struggled in this from the sounds of the report...interesting. So he's definitely moving up?
David_TheMan
Veteran
malbaker86
Gators
Best thing about this fight is this tall ring girl with the fat ass
We need her IG
Yeah, she looked like an Amazon and holding ass at the same time
She shouldn't need to degrade herself like this
1970s HeRon Flow
Takin Penitentiary Chances
Russell: Nyambayar Still Can Become World Champion, Just Like Jo Jo Diaz
By Keith Idec
Published On Mon Feb 10, 2020, 10:37 AM EST
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania – Gary Russell Jr. walked away from his fight against Tugstsogt Nyambayar with the same feeling he had after he beat Joseph Diaz Jr.
Russell out-boxed Nyambayar, too, but the previously unbeaten Mongolian impressed Russell in their 12-round featherweight title fight Saturday night at PPL Center. The 2012 Olympic silver medalist’s toughness struck Russell, who thinks Nyambayar can learn from this first professional defeat and, like Diaz, come back to win a world title.
“He was definitely one of the better fighters that I competed against,” Russell told a group of reporters following his unanimous-decision win. “I feel like he would give any of these guys in the upper echelon a run for their money. He was definitely good, just like a Jo Jo Diaz. I take my hat off to Jo Jo Diaz. I think if [Nyambayar] was to stay focused, once again, he would become a world champion, just like Jo Jo Diaz did.”
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Less than two years after Russell defeated Diaz by unanimous decision, Diaz out-worked favored former 130-pound champion Tevin Farmer to take the IBF junior lightweight championship from him in another 12-rounder January 30 in Miami. Like Nyambayar, Diaz has an Olympic pedigree and has lost only to Russell.
The 27-year-old Diaz (31-1, 15 KOs), of Downey, California, won four fights between his loss to Russell in May 2018 and his victory over Philadelphia’s Farmer (30-5-1, 6 KOs, 1 NC) last month. He was the mandatory challenger for Russell’s title when they fought, as was Nyambayar, who lost to the faster, more experienced Russell by wide distances on all three scorecards (118-110, 117-111, 116-112).
Diaz moved up from featherweight to junior lightweight before becoming a world champion. The 27-year-old Nyambayar (11-1, 9 KOs) intends to remain at featherweight for the foreseeable future.
Versus Russell, Nyambayar didn’t throw enough punches and was too reliant on his right hand, which the defensively effective Russell slipped countless times.
“It was definitely the kind of fight I expected,” Russell said. “I knew I was fighting a tough competitor. You know, he had everything to gain and nothing to lose. He brought his physical best. We knew he was gonna be strong, but I felt like my hand speed, my ring generalship, my boxing IQ [would be the differences]. That was exactly what happened. I kept the jab in his face. He couldn’t get past it. On the back half of the fight, I told myself I was gonna lock my hands up and start walking forward and dictating the action and pressing the action, and that’s exactly what we did.”