DONOVAN GEORGE vs. OSUMANU ADAMA | FULL FIGHT | BOXING WORLD WEEKLY

for all the best boxing content don't forget to like subscribe and punch that bell for notifications [Music] ladies and gentlemen the action continues here at the uic pavilion in chicago illinois for showbox the new generation and it is being brought to you by dabella entertainment and count productions in association with warriors boxing promotions and it is sponsored by blue wave group catch the wave and the underground clown this bout is sanctioned by the illinois department of financial and professional regulation and the three judges assigned scoring on a 10-point must system will be bulmaro compuzano junior mauro d fiore and jerry jacobco when the bell rings our referee in charge will be gerald scott and now ladies and gentlemen here we go with eight rounds in the super middleweight division introducing to you first fighting to my right in the blue corner he's wearing red with gold and green and weighed in at 167 pounds hailing from akra ghana his record consists of 14 wins just one loss with 10 wins coming by way of knockout ladies and gentlemen please welcome osu and his opponent fighting tonight out of the red corner he's wearing black trunks with white trim and also weighed in at 167 pounds undefeated his record consists of 19 wins no losses one draw with 17 of his 19 wins coming by way of knockout ladies and gentlemen introducing from the windy city chicago illinois donovan george [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay you have your instructions with the dressing room i want a good clean professional fight protect yourself at all times obey my commands touch them up good luck looking at the numbers of dhamma with a very long reach for a fighter who turned crows at junior middleweight and those long arms could be a key factor he's definitely going to want to keep this fight at long range and the rules here in illinois same as the first fight the abc rules no three knocked down no standing eight can't be saved by the bell in any round and only the referee in this case gerald scott can stop the fight ready to go here don george trained by his father pete george talked to him moments ago they want to have that long strong jab in adama's face you know he's the naturally smaller guy i think the strategy for him is fight like the smaller guy you are outwork george and don't wait on it and stay off the ropes that's a key for adam george is in the black and adama the ghanian is coming forward now he throws lots of punches but he's looking to fight fast punch and get out don't stand around doing nothing george again has had very soft competition and he's the up and coming prospect now he's busy off that jab a three-punch combination from george as he zings adam and backs them off in terms of amateur experience george won the chicago golden gloves three times but only had 22 fights obama fought in the olympics in 2000 representing ghana pro experience remember george had his career interrupted for 21 months with legal problems otama has not been active at all george looking like he's sitting down on his punches pretty well he wants some of his earlier tape and i've seen him in action where he used to bounce a lot more so looks like he's driving home those shots adama in the red and gold trying to get something working off the jab as he tries to slip underneath and land something to the body lead right hand a little bit wild from adama but he's been known to do that it looks like uh domino's way around the ring pretty good and that might cause some problems with the level of competition that george has had thus far and adama trains in ghana when he's there with a guy who knows a little bit about boxing the professor assuming but that doesn't make him assume there's only one oh nice right hand follow-up from adama now george standing around a little bit got clipped george not working off the jab as much anymore his hands are out nice bouncing a little bit for now set up off that jab right hand george walking in but not punching his way in right hand and then he's out so he zips a good right hand lead in there and adama doubles the hook back i think the difference in natural power is already pretty evident you can see that george throws shorter harder shots yeah bigger guy against the smaller guys so adama has got to outbox him and out hustle him to win this fight he got to stay busy and keep that jab lorraine and i think it's confusing uh confusing george just a little bit very spirited first round here and a fairly close one george with the more meaningful shots as steve mentioned good combination from adama as he tries to wing shots to the ribs of george and now he'll blast away with the combinations as he's busier down the stretch trying to steal this round nick when adam punches george douglas [Applause] a lot more movement keep that keep that stiff long strong jab goals that right hand's got to go up the middle not around him okay he goes under with that hook he opens himself up the middle you step in with that right hand step through the door keep confusing them keep moving your hands keep moving your head water give a little water [Applause] long strong don't hold it so long okay put it in his face this is your fight you got this use it okay okay relax just relax keep your seat relaxed build the ground right hand on top let's go okay hands up here's up [Music] came on pretty big there down the stretch in round one how did you have that steve i gave it to george although i as i said uh george was punching harder but when obama punches oh look at throw it show up with no counter punch now obama is taking the lead big time madoma as he is really unleashing combinations here and george looks like he's been taken out of his comfort zone big time it seems that way i mean he's born as one two and normally with the competition he's used to they either fold or bend but a dumber don't look like he want to go anywhere thus far man i mean he come to fight tonight he looks like he can fight all night so george and here george is back against the ropes he's backing up and can't get off looks to me like troy's gonna have to land something to turn this fight around because right now obama's got all the momentum yeah he looks rattled obama punching with him punching first not waiting on him hustling up working and winning this round big as he blasts away and hits george flush with a right hand and another left glance as the african is walking down the bigger man george it seems that jordan looks confused on his face he's being littered senses he's obviously got his man in retreat unraveled how long can a domino maintain this kind of pace this round isn't half over that's a good point break step out there we go that could play right into george's hand yeah eventually he's still here yeah george trying to find his compulsion he's on the jab again as he rocks obama with a right hand and now madonna's eating left hands yeah he buckled really he a really good thing he should have came back with a left hook he could have turned out the lights hey you know this is early in a fight but a real gut check situation for the unbeaten don george very soft opposition as we all talked about and abdomen has come to play in the windy city big time he's fun to fight it's exactly what george needs it may turn out to be a lot more than he needs and now they're in a little bit of a fire fight [Music] george has kept his composure now he's walking forward and looking to take adama to the ropes perhaps with that right hand look hey keep them up keep them up let's go gerald scott with another warning for adama adam is getting real wild here george stings him with a jab george just looks like such a touch the stronger gun he does and you know since it's kentucky derby weekend i'll use another horse racing term adama maybe he made his move too early he's going to get caught because that round he got caught down the stretch a little bit he keeps coming right hand right hand here's the moment yeah start working that body he's soft around that midsection you're starting to uh land that right hand but it's got to come between the gloves don't go around go through them action for round two i was concerned that dahmer would fight too defensively well he didn't get that memo because look how aggressive he fought letting his hands go and he landed a lot of big right hands against george who didn't seem to know quite what to do george didn't step inside the hole george didn't really counter punch all he did was back up and he eventually got hit by a lot of right hands there's one on the button but all of this happened in the first 90 seconds of the round and in the second half of the round george came back because the diamond wasn't punching and diamond was punched out [Music] you know here's a question for both we're talking about guys with 77-inch reaches so it's not like it looks like george is a guy who likes to fight at a distance but somebody's got to do some work inside maybe they could turn to tight i mean where does that come in antonio definitely the insight favors don george i just feel that uh odama really doesn't have an inside game he hasn't shown it even though he's gone through the body a few times but i think if george can get an inside game going it'll help him a whole lot of this fight yeah i think it's been missing from his arsenal [Applause] now he's inside nice right hand as he drops back abdominal walks into the combination there waits and doesn't unload now it's adama just winging shots head down he comes in blazing and [Applause] you don't want to burn unnecessary energy wrestling with a boxer or fighter i mean that's unnecessary well we apologize for weather here in the windy city a thunderstorm pass through knocked us off the air we're back and we want to recap here it's been a very spirited fight first round was close and second round adam ahead his moments as don george faced a gut check situation but george seems to have righted himself here in the third round as he's having a very good one halfway through steve exactly and you know what just like in our first fight we have a very spirited opponent against the the heavily hyped prospect these are great tests right yes great test and here we see george and black whipping a right to the body he's against the ropes they don't want him there let him go you're adama getting a little bit gassed perhaps as he holds on i mean the pace has been hot yes it has they really picked it up this but you know to the donald's credit he came out and kept the same intensity that he had success within the round before and now he's trying to back up george but you're right antonio and then now he's inside he doesn't have a game there george needs to do more work to the body yeah they both buy it there you're right and pete george father of don george and his trainer said go to that body and that's creating this inside game you know we should problem a little bit here it would seem and fight effectively inside that seems to be the missing link takes a break it's like he's not doing any defense he's not really boxing he just goes somewhere and then he gets back in the fight focus lack of focus yeah it could be that also just fatigue you know you gotta take a break look how fast this pace is it's brutal [Applause] george in the black tries to land the uppercut rapid fire here to close out round three in chicago [Applause] listen same game plan relax come on gumbo we got this in our hand okay lose the jab move your head more okay bust the right hand on top hard okay go to the body with it set the body down okay shut the body down shut the body down you're fighting good okay move your head you're good good good keep going with that long strong jab try to hit him with that right hand trying to find the gloves between the gloves right here slowly he gets lower yeah he's going to get he's going to slow down now but after that right hand lands i want you to hit throw that hook okay hook after that and then move don't wait for the return antonio can a fighter don george seems to sense and see that adam is slowing down a fighter could obviously feel that you definitely can't feel it i don't feel as dumb as slowing down i want to give credit to both corners uh the trainers are giving excellent advice between rounds i don't think a dumber slowed down it seemed as if george came on late but i don't know if it was enough to win that round steve what [Applause] you know in analyzing this it's pretty simple whichever guy has the offensive momentum and can throw a lot of punches is effective so who can make the play and keep the play which guy backs the other one up to win the fight hot pace here and here comes adama moving forward george sinks against the ropes and eats a combination as he tries to shove the african off but adam is having none of it he won't be tied up and now it's the energy quotient coming in and adama is the guy who looks full of fight he wants a fire fight and george mayo blind we'll see george and black has backed off a little bit as he sinks a right to the ribs and comes back and whips a left to the body as well it's real great action right now both fighters are given as good as they are receiving right now but it's important that obama keeps his hands up george has a real sneaky powerful left hook that he sometimes follow up with his right hand yeah he doesn't use it enough it seems but easily just approaching halfway this is don george the unveiling definitely his toughest test and he said it going in he did he knows people are skeptical of the super soft opposition oh showing a nice chin i'll i'll be in against a smaller fighter he's never been down and obama's been down twice in that fight against diane davis he's one wrong yeah the first round and came back uh very effectively he said down the stretch that's that little that's that little dip move check it out steve it's really nice abdominals doing he's dipping both corners one guys moving her head more there it is [Applause] told him to go to the body and he has consciously gone to the body this round much more than pressing forward off the jab missing with the right he takes a left counter in return from adama adama from the outside tries it up or cut a bad except for that one huge right hand george landed earlier and you can expect george to come on strong once you hear that body shot from george there they punched together as he closed out the halfway mark of this fight [Applause] this guy's getting tired and you're going to catch your second wind how about that look at him he's tired you're going to get your second weight okay what's watermelon keep walking in behind that jab now ops keep walking in behind that jab now working that body slowly but surely he's getting broke down right hand's going to come when he's close to you don't let him escape without getting whacked especially that right uppercut left hook five five five now put them together okay pull that shoulder behind that hook now okay rolling them off the hook don't let them break away without getting whacked okay [Music] unpredictable weather is always in chicago we got knocked off the air we understand that thunderstorm no control over that but we are back here at the uic pavilion don george in black osama adama from ghana and the ghanaian colors a very big fourth round for him as he out punched george and don george's uh father pete said hey you're going to catch the second win the other guy's going to get tired well how does he know the other guy won't catch a second win and here we see george coming on big psychology you know i like the fact that the senior george was very calm in the corner and the fighters seemed very calm and poised and you don't necessarily expect that from a guy who's knocked out almost everybody who spawned that's a good call steve george has stayed very composed and he hasn't had it all his way adama coming on now trying to sink those shots to the body he's back off great long distance now he's getting wild but a good counter punch [Applause] has stopped stop punching really he's walking in not throwing anything tries to land a lazy look and adama seems to be stealing the play a little bit in this fight he had a big fourth round and arguably winning this bit [Applause] i don't know nick i think george might be uh landing the better shots this round then remember dom is not coming forward anymore now he is but he hasn't been this round yeah i think george's uh came out really nice he's landing some hard shots and that that kind of left hook is a dangerous punch i don't know if he's going to be able to get a thumb out of it i think he's going to be with that kind of left hook yeah we haven't seen enough of it but there it is again and abdominals think it twice down and george then is taking back some of this wave of momentum but he has stopped jabbing his way in working off it and the domina gets a free shot like that as a result yeah you got to stay consistent you got to continue to work behind your jab and also it will be in his best interview you've got to go to the body yeah i mean the guy's taking all the head shots but you got to dig something down to the body just like we saw in the fight previously that got his opponent out of it a lot of missing in this round they punched together and the last guy punching is the domino nice right hand he landed there it's george tying him up it's funny neither guy seems to want any part of fighting on the inside missing a part of the game it's been a great pace this fight so even though we're only through five heats uh fatigue may start to come in [Applause] as we roll down the stretch of this eighth round and remember george never been past six absolutely something to think about george with a smoking right hand oh he's coming on big and close his ground here [Applause] action from round five watch the training of the left hooks and clearly adama's shot was wider and it started a split second slower and that's why george landed that's the left hook antonio's been talking about steve he slapped with that left hook if if they show that again he slapped with the open paw that could have been the difference but he landed that punch should have landed it right on the kisser but he didn't turn his hand over well that was a quality shot but adama came on big down the stretch enough to take the round no i gave it to george i think he did better work the first half of the round enough to take the round but it's a close fight i i don't see how the judges could have it any other way you know it absolutely is i know that sounds it doesn't make sense a lot of times you say hey how could a guy be so far behind in rounds it's still a very competitive fight because there's many of the rounds are close all right we're back nick charles steve farhood antonio tarver were in chicago chicago native don george undefeated in black against osamanidama from ghana a single loss his only loss coming here in the united states [Applause] and now don george's chicago crowd getting behind it they want to see him start closing the show and as steve mentioned earlier the sixth is as far as george has ever been and now he's putting his shots together and odometer walked into something and now they're inside and let's see who does some work they're both holding nobody that's it and it's been that way and it's falling into a familiar pattern low blow from adama there here we go and now george is inside he's leaning in and oda could catch him if he would back up a half step like that i'll tell you what uh steve you said earlier that uh that peter george was cool calm and relaxed between the rounds if you have another close round like he did you're gonna see if you're gonna get excited over here but i'm having a good round right now he's just loading up with a 1-2 but he got to put three and four punches together and back his man up because the guy who throws more shots he's going to win this fight now they're both inside and george unleashed a couple of good shots and osama comes back with some obama i should say but the president was fighting well we're in chicago so close oh they exchanged [Applause] he may need one of those shots to take control of this fight he's broken his right hand twice actually in his brief career it just it just seems like obama won't let george take the play i mean he takes punch he comes right back he's made every round most every round close well the joint seems to have found a new weapon two right uppercuts this round and again george is the much bigger guy obama has fought junior middleweight and middleweight much of his career but george is not the meaner guy inside like here a much better round for osomano adama [Applause] you need to put your hands up i'm going to stop the fight you'll hear me put your hands up man okay you're doing good you're winning this fight okay you need to go ahead different body okay go down there man okay it was a close fight they gonna give it to him let's go we need these rounds you're tired now actually from round six nick asked about adjustments well that's something we hadn't seen in the previous five rounds a right uppercut at close range from george and he used it once more in the round and there's an overhand right in the left hook putting his punches together but he's wide open to be hit adama took advantage of it that's why whoever throws more shots with bad attention probably gonna win the fight could you give the rounds a very very close round i gave it to george very close though well you got absolutely a wide margin where obama would need a knockout huh 57-57 wow he snuck some in there i didn't realize i gave it time uh two three and four adama is on the jab now interesting strategy in fort threatening to stop the fight antonio i think he's trying to uh vote put a little panic on this fighter the light of the light on the torch but i don't like the strategy of the motivation the opposite of the guy's saying the other guy's going to get tired because you can't bank her dad yeah we got one more round in this fight and this guy doesn't seem like he's getting tired it seems like he's getting motivated and he has all the confidence in himself right now i see more slapping now from adam he's still punching a lot but he's slapping george has more on his shot yeah george was more effective inside there george winging some wild shots adama is going to try to get on that jab and box a little bit more he's got to get busier and that's what he's trying [Applause] george walking in looking for that big shot maybe go to the body and here instead of fighting out of the clinch they allow themselves to be broke wild shot from george he's in the black coming on now they're inside again maybe a little fatigue setting in here give me a break step back step back the seniors of the work right now is slowing a little bit there he is on the jab again trying to stick it he debates a shot tries to come back but george takes those on the gloves george walking forward adama is retreating trying to get in that little dipsy booth and george walking forward will the judges reward him for that of course it's supposed to be effective aggressiveness but he's backing his man up now he's been slick with his little defense he hasn't been a target for everything he had his head movement working just like his trainer advised him to and he had his moments as steve said two three and four you know he rocked us george pretty good but he is a smaller guy and he's got outbox a big time these last uh really three and a half minutes to have any kind of a shot here in chicago [Applause] that could put this one away boy george the last guy punching a tail end right hand is what put a donald down first knocked down to the fight end of seven [Applause] okay use that jab use that jab go down to the body that one your hands are down this is the last round you're getting sloppy on me okay okay step closer last round baby action from round seven right hand by george could be pivotal it came late it was nice a sweeping shot tom has been there for that punch that's pretty brutal and that's a 10-8 rounds for george when he needed it the most in a tight fight on my card and a two-point round this late in the fight in only an eight-round fight absolutely and what i liked so much steve is that he got nasty you know he refused to let the referee break up he kept punching and he was the last guy punching and he drops the guy that way yeah abdominal was going backwards didn't have his balance on him but uh great for george he stayed in there he landed a shot that was right on the kisser and uh that won him around possibly want him to fight yeah i think it's comfortable now for george so what can a donald do he's had george thinking twice one or two times in this fight but his power doesn't seem to be there so he needs a perfect shot to win this fight with two and a half minutes to go he's going for it though now here they are in the clinch again watch your hands it's interesting i'd say punched himself out early and i don't mean that he didn't keep punching but the power was missing in the later rounds i don't know how much sheer power he has it doesn't really seem like he can generate much of it but i mean you win on points but he's going to need a big punch right now look at this go southpaw george he got hit with something here [Applause] as he backed off but adama can he sense that it may be fatigue as much as getting hit yeah it doesn't look great it doesn't look good when george just falls back to the ropes like that he needs to circle give him you know move around stay on his feet don't just fall back with both feet parallel doesn't look good well we got a minute and a half to go here and george should regroup obama's got to go for it all the way he's been dropped in the last round and he needs some multiple knockdowns here to win this fight it could seem as he rocks back into the neutral corner george looks tired it's like all of a sudden the tank is empty yeah exactly what a great comeback round for obama being that he's spent the latter part of round seven on his butt but he's gonna run out of clock isn't it we really don't know a lot of those rounds is very close i mean we have to see how the judges score but george doesn't look all that fresh right now he's never been past six and it's showing now was we're in the eighth and final but he's full of fight now winging power shots he's forgotten about the jab and setting up anything half a minute to go as we'll watch it let's see if they battle to the end a lot of clinching now and a lot of fatigue [Applause] puns out of there hunts out [Applause] your hands are free [Applause] there it is fans on their feet here in chicago eight pretty intense rounds lots of missing but these guys never stop trying at both ends don george unbeaten dropped though somana adama in the seventh round in that 10-8 round will loom large on the cards one thing about george you know there were holes in this game clearly he didn't punch the body enough he got hit off a lot he couldn't counter punch but for a fighter who had scored 17 ko's in 19 wins this fight was the type of fight that he needed to prove he could win yeah i think he did you know because the guy didn't go yeah he put him on his on on his button he didn't finish him and he's used to finishing guys right so this was in that sense dr was very impressed yes he was i mean he did not uh lose mental focus you know he stayed in the fight kept trying to get the big knockout but uh he knows that he needs to get back in the gym and some things that he need to work on that body work and also he got to stay in the fight he just can't relax and just go back to the rope it doesn't look good exactly antonio that was the biggest [Music] and that knock down again could be the big difference for don george it came in the seventh and here it is and what you're going to see is that adama's hands were down adama actually was trying to hold on at that point and nick called it exactly the way it was george wouldn't let the ghanian hold on watch him reaching to try to hold on right here he missed the right hand now he's trying to hold and george backed him up and dropped him with a crisp kind of a wide right hand but right on the button right on the button but both feet was parallel he had no balance and when you when you that all balance anything can put you down well i think it's close on that part it's close how'd you have it 76.75 well the knockdown being the difference but let's get the official word from ring announcer tom driver ladies and gentlemen after eight rounds of boxing we go to the judge's scorecards judge bulmaro tom luzano junior scores at 79 to 72 judge jerry jacobko scores it 76 to 75 and judge maro di fiori scores it 77-74 all in favor of your winner by unanimous decision from chicago [Applause] yeah donovan george easily the toughest test of his career [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey

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Length: 37min 32sec (2252 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 01 2022