Steve Claggett vs Carlos Sanchez (08-09-2023) Full Fight
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00:05 Respect my instruction all the time.
00:06 Protect yourself at all times.
00:07 Touch love.
00:08 Good luck, guys.
00:09 - Now we are set to go with what could be
00:13 an explosive co-main event
00:15 as we take a look at the tail of the tape.
00:18 You see the height identical between Klaget and Sanchez.
00:22 Steve Klaget with a slight reach advantage,
00:24 but that is not something he tends to attempt to use.
00:29 Steve Klaget wants to work on the inside
00:31 and he comes out fast as he typically does.
00:34 Round one underway.
00:35 This one's scheduled for 10.
00:36 - And this is the point, Corey,
00:39 if we were watching,
00:40 if this was an HBO broadcast in the early 2000s,
00:44 this is a point where George Foreman would point out
00:46 that Steve Klaget looks a little dry.
00:48 - Yes, that's right.
00:49 Yes.
00:50 Klaget looking to warm up quickly.
00:56 One thing he talked about prior to this fight, Morgan,
00:59 was the realization and the added confidence
01:04 that he has to just start fast.
01:07 - Yes.
01:08 - But often there's that conceit with pressure fighters
01:10 that you're going to start slowly
01:11 and you're gonna ramp up with time.
01:13 But Klaget said, "Well, why don't I just start fast?
01:17 "I believe in my engine.
01:18 "I think I can keep this up for 10 to 12 rounds."
01:20 - Which is interesting because when I talked to Sanchez,
01:23 he talked more like the traditional pressure fighter.
01:26 He says, "I'm gonna bring the pressure."
01:27 I know he's gonna bring the pressure,
01:28 but I'm gonna do it round by round by round by round.
01:32 He said that not knowing that Klaget
01:34 just had spoken to you five minutes earlier,
01:36 saying he's not gonna wait for rounds and rounds.
01:38 He's just gonna bring the pressure from the very beginning.
01:40 - Sanchez certainly willing to meet Klaget
01:46 on his terms right now.
01:48 And as we pointed out throughout the night,
01:51 in a 16 by 16 ring, there's only so much you can do
01:54 in terms of avoiding contact.
01:58 - Break!
01:59 - Now Sanchez, at least superficially,
02:02 appears to be in a lot better shape
02:03 than he was for his last fight,
02:05 which he won against Alexander Duran.
02:07 But if you watch that fight,
02:09 Sanchez appeared to get outboxed for six rounds
02:14 and won a technical decision after a cut on a headbutt.
02:17 But those scorecards, if you watch the fight,
02:20 you would understand those scorecards
02:22 are charitably described as highly questionable.
02:27 - That uppercut on the inside there from Klaget
02:28 a moment ago.
02:30 And Sanchez described that as just a bad style matchup
02:33 with a fighter who want to make things ugly.
02:36 Obviously he has a different take on how that fight went,
02:39 but certainly one he wants to put past him.
02:41 - Yes.
02:42 It was a bad style matchup, but the substance of it too,
02:46 in terms of what Sanchez was doing was also subpar,
02:49 especially compared to his record
02:52 and what you would expect from him.
02:54 25 total fights, 80 total rounds.
02:57 Tells you that when he's on, he's a power puncher.
02:59 He gets people out of there.
03:00 - Here Klaget's corner encouraging him,
03:09 telling him just keep working the body.
03:11 I don't think that Klaget needs to hear that.
03:15 That's certainly what he's going to do anyway.
03:16 - That is how he is programmed.
03:18 - Looking for a chopping right hand.
03:23 - Well, Sanchez right there with him in terms of tempo.
03:26 He's kept the movement up.
03:27 And Klaget start to make him feel uncomfortable
03:31 as he lands a nice combination right at the bell.
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04:27 (upbeat music)
04:29 (bell rings)
04:38 - Round two begins.
04:39 Our co-main event between Steve Klaget and Carlos Sanchez.
04:45 Steve Klaget, as we've talked about,
04:49 really getting a second chance in his career
04:54 with a promotional contract with Eye of the Tiger,
04:57 the ability to just train full time,
04:59 working with Mike Mafa in Montreal,
05:01 getting a totally different caliber of sparring partner,
05:05 sparring partners here in Quebec,
05:07 just a conveyor belt of talent that runs through here.
05:11 Has made all the difference in the career
05:13 of the dragon, Steve Klaget.
05:15 - Yeah, it makes a huge difference
05:15 because he was based out west before,
05:18 and wherever he was training before,
05:19 he was the best fighter in the gym.
05:22 So when you are the best fighter in the gym,
05:25 everybody improves except you.
05:27 But when you're out here in Quebec,
05:29 all kinds of world class,
05:30 it's the next best thing to being in Las Vegas.
05:32 All kinds of world class fighters are either based here
05:35 or come through here.
05:35 There's all kinds of opportunities to improve.
05:38 - It also goes to show that there is this idea
05:42 that boxing is a sport where privilege doesn't mean anything
05:45 but boxing is not just a pure meritocracy.
05:49 You do need resources.
05:50 - Yes.
05:51 - And Sanchez clearly was always a very capable fighter,
05:53 but it wasn't until he got those resources
05:56 that he was able to realize that.
05:57 - Yes.
05:58 Privilege in the sense that you don't have to work
06:00 40 hours a week and also find time to train.
06:03 If you can make training your job,
06:05 you're gonna excel more than the person
06:07 that's putting in 40 hours at Walmart
06:09 or the construction site,
06:10 and then training in three hours after work.
06:12 - Sanchez doing a good job of not staying stable here
06:18 and not just going forehead to forehead
06:20 and exchanging with Claggett,
06:21 which is where he's obviously most comfortable.
06:24 He's still finding himself at close range quite often,
06:28 but he's turning often enough to force Claggett to reset.
06:32 Hard shot to the body there from Claggett.
06:39 - Claggett doing exactly what he said he would do
06:49 in terms of making this small ring even smaller
06:51 and not waiting to do that.
06:53 First round, second round,
06:55 he's already crowding Sanchez.
06:58 Sanchez not trying to find distance to throw punches
07:06 as much as he's trying to find angles to throw punches.
07:08 - Right.
07:09 Well, the question is,
07:10 can Claggett eventually erode Sanchez
07:14 such that he won't be able to make those tight turns
07:17 quite often?
07:18 (crowd cheering)
07:20 - Here's Sanchez coming forward, making Claggett back up,
07:23 which I did not expect to see.
07:24 - Sanchez is absolutely there,
07:29 trying to hustle and match volume with Steve Claggett,
07:33 which is a tall task.
07:34 Sanchez, body to body against him at the end of round two.
07:39 - But this is the fight that each of these guys
07:42 said they wanted.
07:43 (upbeat music)
07:46 - Let me take a look.
07:55 (upbeat music)
07:57 (crowd cheering)
08:00 (upbeat music)
08:03, (crowd cheering)
08:08 (upbeat music)
08:10 (crowd cheering)
08:13 (upbeat music)
08:15 (whistle blowing)
08:33 (upbeat music)
08:35 (crowd cheering)
08:38 (bell ringing)
08:44 - Round three begins.
08:46 Very simple advice from Mike Mafa
08:48 in the corner of Steve Claggett,
08:49 which is just to finish with the left hook to the body.
08:52 - Very good advice.
08:54 We've seen it work out for a lot of people tonight.
08:56 - Also, if you're reading body language,
09:02 you might've seen a left hook from Claggett
09:05 in round two, maybe affect Sanchez a little bit
09:08 and had him backing up at least temporarily.
09:10 But then moments later,
09:11 Sanchez had some of his better moments.
09:13 - Yes, and here we see Sanchez using all 16
09:15 by 16 feet of this ring.
09:17 Circling a little bit in this round.
09:21 And again, I don't know how feasible
09:22 or viable that game plan is.
09:24 Given Sanchez's build, his default style,
09:27 and the fact that this ring is so small.
09:29 But he does seem to think he can walk Claggett
09:34 into some traps.
09:35 - Mentioned Sanchez,
09:42 he's six time national amateur champion in Mexico.
09:45 You can certainly see the deft footwork.
09:50 The question is, will the pressure of Claggett
09:52 and the dimensions of the ring
09:54 nullify that at a certain point?
09:57 - Yeah, I talked to Sanchez yesterday,
10:00 asked him why they call him Tiburon,
10:02 why they call him the shark.
10:03 And I expected him to say,
10:04 oh, it's because I'm such an aggressive, hungry fighter.
10:06 And he said, no, it's because I come from a fishing family
10:09 and sometimes we catch sharks.
10:11 But then he also said it also describes
10:13 how I fight in the ring.
10:14 So it all fits.
10:16 Crisp right hand over the top there from Claggett.
10:27 - Uppercut breaks through,
10:29 wraps the right hand around the guard.
10:31 And again, not all of this is landing flush,
10:33 but it's just constant contact and wear and tear
10:36 on the arms of Sanchez.
10:38 He's doing a little less moving over the last minute or so
10:42 than he was to start this fight.
10:43 - Yes.
10:44 And again, but that's sort of vintage Steve Claggett.
10:50 He doesn't take you out with one punch or even two punches.
10:54 It's by attrition.
10:55 - I think what he is finding tonight, Morgan,
10:59 is a much better physical matchup
11:01 that he found in Alberto Machado.
11:03 And again, that victory both looked good on television.
11:08 It looks good on paper.
11:09 It sounds impressive.
11:11 But Machado had issues with punch resistance at 130.
11:15 And he definitely was going to have it at 140.
11:17 - Yes. And Machado,
11:19 I think that he thought the key to increasing
11:24 his punch resistance was going to 10 pounds.
11:26 - Gaining weight, yes.
11:27 It's clear that the weight cut alone
11:30 was not Machado's problem.
11:32 - Final 10 seconds of round three.
11:38 The action, the pendulum swinging
11:41 a little bit more obviously in the favor of Claggett
11:45 in the last two minutes of that round.
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12:40 - Targeting Sanchez's body
12:43 and using angles on the inside.
12:45 That is the game plan each and every fight
12:48 for Steve Plaggett.
12:49 It has not changed here tonight.
12:51 (fighters grunting)
12:54 Sanchez now targeting the body early in this round.
13:14 He goes back down there again,
13:15 but met with a couple uppercuts from Plaggett on the inside.
13:20 (fighters grunting)
13:23 Plaggett really sitting down on that left hook a moment ago.
13:27 (fighters grunting)
13:31 - Sanchez is the one now consistently moving backward
13:34 or being used backward.
13:35 - Good head movement there from Plaggett.
13:38 A four punch combination from Sanchez.
13:41 All of them missing.
13:42 (fighters grunting)
13:46 - That's the movement, that's it.
13:49 (fighters grunting)
13:52 - As you see coming up on October 11th,
13:54 we talked about it earlier on tonight.
13:56 IBF title on the line, Mary Spencer, Femke Hermans.
14:01 154 pound title on the line,
14:05 and there's that left hook in the body.
14:07 (crowd cheering)
14:08 Plaggett has been ripping that all night long,
14:12 and Sanchez is on one knee on the canvas.
14:15 (crowd cheering)
14:17 Just as you launched into the promo for the October fights,
14:20 I was about to say,
14:21 we reached the point in the fight
14:23 where Plaggett's consistent body punching
14:25 is starting to wear on Sanchez.
14:27 - Sanchez hits the canvas for the first time in this fight.
14:31 And we wondered at what point would Sanchez start to erode
14:38 because of the volume, because of the power, the tempo,
14:42 this tiny ring that is not helpful to him and his movement.
14:47 And I think we found our answer.
14:51 - And also the fact that you have two guys
14:52 that are essentially the same size
14:54 and essentially trying to do the same thing,
14:55 and only one of them can be correct.
14:57 Each of these guys thinks that they're gonna wear down
14:59 the other guy with pressure and power,
15:01 and they can't both be right.
15:03 - Plaggett just overwhelming Sanchez right now.
15:07 The body language not looking good.
15:10 The referee taking a close look.
15:12 Another one of those left hands sinks in deep from Plaggett.
15:16 Still 30 seconds for Plaggett to work with here.
15:20 Left hands just keep on coming.
15:27 Three more of them.
15:28 One of them with full leverage from Plaggett.
15:32 - 20 seconds, C!
15:33 - Plaggett is just a lot to deal with in this ring.
15:44 - Yes, he is.
15:45 In everything Sanchez lands, Plaggett has an answer for him.
15:48 (bell rings)
15:49 - Hey! - Love that.
15:51 (crowd cheers)
15:53 Sanchez lands one hook, Plaggett lands two right hands.
15:57 That has to be frustrating if you're Sanchez.
16:00 Everything you do, your opponent has an answer for.
16:03 He's always getting the last word.
16:05 Imagine being in a relationship,
16:06 your partner always gets the last word, every time.
16:09 This was happening to Sanchez.
16:11 - When he's down, okay, put that defense up to him.
16:14 No throw punches, watch his left foot.
16:16 - Deep breath, let's go.
16:18 - Tailored.
16:19 - One more, deep breath.
16:23 - Keep on going to the left, and then the body.
16:25 Surprise him.
16:29 (hip hop music)
16:31 (whistle blows)
16:46 - Interesting advice there from Mike Maafa.
16:52 He's essentially telling him, hey, start out the round,
16:54 just catch some punches, try and catch him by surprise.
16:57 - Yes. - With that left hook.
16:59 (hip hop music)
17:00 - Instead, Plaggett throws about six left hooks
17:02 to the body.
17:03 - Listen, Plaggett's in rhythm.
17:06 He has no reason to start any round slow.
17:08 - I certainly appreciate what Mike Maafa's thinking
17:17 with that strategy, but it's hard to slow Plaggett down.
17:25 - Plaggett, if he was a car, would have five gears,
17:29 but no reverse.
17:30 He's coming straight downhill.
17:33 - Good uppercut there, sneaky shot from Plaggett.
17:46 - Yesterday, before the fight, after the weigh-in,
17:53 when I was talking to Sanchez, he sounded really optimistic
17:56 about winning this fight because he understands,
17:59 as I'm sure Plaggett does, what's possible
18:03 at 140 pounds right now?
18:04 Because some of these really talented fighters
18:06 are migrating north, like Devin Haney.
18:09 Regis Progray's already there.
18:12 Lopez is already there.
18:13 So if you are able to catapult yourself past a fight
18:16 like this, really big fights are possible.
18:18 And Sanchez seemed to think all those things
18:21 are really possible for him if and when he won this fight.
18:24 But he's running into the reality that,
18:27 Steve Plaggett is not a person you can take for granted.
18:29 You can't just view him as a stepping stone.
18:32 He is still, as we discussed, he's not a B-side,
18:34 he's not a gatekeeper anymore.
18:37 He's still a very live contender.
18:40 - As you mentioned, the options at 140 are plentiful.
18:44 And there's a lot of big names
18:47 that are still in the division, as you mentioned,
18:49 other names that have migrated north.
18:51 And they can't all fight one another.
18:53 - Right.
18:54 - So they have to keep busy against someone.
18:55 - They have to fight somebody.
18:56 - And so those opportunities can be there
18:59 for the winner of this fight.
19:00 And that left hook certainly had an impact on Sanchez,
19:04 who right now is just hugging the side of his body,
19:07 hoping that another one doesn't break through.
19:09 See the grimace on the face of Sanchez,
19:14 who's trying to fight through this.
19:16 A gutsy effort from Carlos Sanchez.
19:19 But he has an absolute whirlwind of a volume puncher
19:25 all over him every second of every round.
19:27 - Another right hand from Claggett.
19:33 The two-fisted nature of Claggett's attack, too,
19:41 I think gets lost.
19:43 I don't know that opponents are quite ready for it.
19:46 - Right hand to the body a moment ago from Claggett.
19:50 And Sanchez is still landing here and there
19:52 like that left hook.
19:53 But the volume from Claggett is so overwhelming.
19:56 - Exactly.
19:57 Overwhelming is the word.
19:58 Even coming back to the corner,
20:03 Sanchez looks discouraged and confused.
20:06 (upbeat music)
20:08 - All right, take a look back
20:27 at some of the action from the previous round.
20:29 There's plenty of it.
20:30 Most of it coming from Steve Claggett.
20:35 - Yeah, you see Sanchez trying to jab,
20:37 trying to hook off the jab.
20:38 And Claggett is ready for it.
20:41 And Claggett has the answers.
20:44 Short right hand there across the jaw.
20:49 Not a ton of jabs in this fight.
20:52 Certainly not like the last fight,
20:54 but Claggett jabbing his way in
20:55 just to keep Sanchez occupied
20:58 until he goes back to the body.
20:59 - Drastically different energies
21:03 in the respective corners.
21:04 - Yes.
21:05 - In the Claggett corner, the fighter is standing.
21:08 Everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood.
21:11 In the Sanchez corner, the fighter is slumped on his stool,
21:14 towel over his head.
21:16 The doctor looking in pretty intensely.
21:18 - Yeah, this is where,
21:20 if Sanchez was a taller, longer arm range, your fighter,
21:24 you'd make a tactical adjustment
21:27 that involved fighting this fight at distance.
21:29 But again.
21:30 - Oh, down goes Sanchez.
21:32 - Short left hook upstairs.
21:34 (crowd cheering)
21:38 It's been hurt to the body.
21:39 Now he's hurt to the head.
21:41 And Morgan, you mentioned the look of discouragement
21:46 as he headed to his corner
21:47 at the end of the last round.
21:51 How much more can he absorb here?
21:53 - I will give him credit, he's fighting back.
21:57 But again, there's only so many adjustments he can make
22:01 given that he and Claggett both like to do the same thing.
22:05 Get inside, pressure you, make you great.
22:09 - Steve Claggett just all over Carlos Sanchez right now.
22:16 You're right, Morgan.
22:17 Two men trying to do the same thing.
22:20 One man stronger, with a better motor,
22:24 better punch placement right now.
22:29 Claggett may be on the verge of another stoppage victory.
22:33 - Sanchez is still fighting back.
22:35 So I can see why the referee is reluctant to stop it.
22:37 But his corner needs to think about stopping it.
22:39 If he gets through this round,
22:40 they need to think long and hard
22:42 about letting him come out the ring.
22:43 - Hard left hook to the body.
22:45 A right hand to the body as well.
22:47 Claggett finding yet another gear,
22:55 picking it up even more,
22:56 sensing that he could get Sanchez out of here.
23:00 - You saw him there just shove Sanchez and push him back.
23:03 And this is one of these things you can do
23:04 when you know you're stronger than your opponent
23:06 and you know that your opponent's getting tired.
23:09 And you can just give him that little shove
23:11 and he's not gonna do anything about it.
23:13 - The gait of Sanchez looking a little unsteady.
23:18 You saw him kind of stumble back to the ropes.
23:24 That fancy footwork we saw earlier in the fight.
23:26 It started to betray him.
23:30 Look at Sanchez though, every once in a while,
23:34 still swinging for the fences,
23:37 still finding the will to fire back.
23:39 Steve Claggett still trying to break it.
23:43 Nasty left hook to the body again.
23:45 - Credit to Sanchez, he's still throwing.
23:52 Throwing just enough to keep the referee from stopping it.
23:54 But again, his corner needs to really consider
23:59 keeping him on his feet.
24:02 - Sanchez corner has some serious decisions to make here.
24:06 We will keep a close eye on that.
24:08 (upbeat music)
24:12 (crowd murmuring)
24:15 (upbeat music)
24:18 (crowd murmuring)
24:20 (upbeat music)
24:23 (crowd murmuring)
24:26 (upbeat music)
24:28 (crowd murmuring)
24:57 (buzzer)
24:59 (upbeat music)
25:02 (bell ringing)
25:11 - Round seven underway.
25:13 Carlos Sanchez's corner allowing their fighter back out.
25:18 Steve Claggett riding a six fight knockout streak.
25:27 Looking for number seven here over Carlos Sanchez.
25:31 He's had Sanchez on the canvas twice.
25:33 See a pair of 10 rounds on the scorecard
25:36 from Matt Cassavant.
25:37 And Sanchez now already at a point in the fight
25:42 where he's gonna need something big
25:43 if he wants to leave with a victory.
25:46 - He is beyond salvaging this fight on the scorecard.
25:53 - Yes.
25:55 - He literally would have to score a knockdown.
25:57 (crowd cheering)
25:59 - There's another knockdown from Steve Claggett.
26:01 Carlos Sanchez just taking a beating round after round.
26:09 He's back up on his feet once again.
26:11 A lot of courage being shown by Carlos Sanchez.
26:17 - He is a tremendously tough man,
26:18 but there's nothing left to prove him.
26:22 And if he is too tough and too proud,
26:26 take a 10 count, he's going to throw in the towel.
26:29 - Claggett just keeping his hands moving.
26:32 If he can be busy enough,
26:33 the referee is looking fairly eager to stop this one.
26:36 Sanchez again, just doing just enough.
26:41 - And as long as he's throwing back,
26:43 this is not Ismael Barroso versus Roly Romero.
26:47 As long as he's throwing back,
26:47 they're not gonna stop the fight.
26:49 And so his corner though, if they care about him,
26:54 they need to look out for him.
26:57 Keep him on a stool between rounds
26:58 and wave the white towel.
27:00 - Over a minute left to go here in the seventh round.
27:04 Three knockdowns now, but look at Sanchez coming back.
27:07 A straight right hand, pops the head back of Claggett.
27:10 - He must've heard us talking for him.
27:17 - Claggett just cannot be discouraged.
27:20 Claggett corner calling for more uppercuts.
27:23 - Sanchez has those moments,
27:27 but he can't string them together.
27:29 And Claggett is just too relentless.
27:30 He's not giving Sanchez opportunities
27:33 to string those moments together.
27:34 - Forepunch combination there from Claggett.
27:39 Showing a little hand speed.
27:43 (speaking in foreign language)
27:47 - The bulk of this fight, Morgan,
27:52 has just looked like one fighter
27:53 kind of desperately looking for an escape.
27:56 - Yes.
27:56 - And even when Sanchez is throwing,
27:58 he does land some significant stuff.
28:00 It just looks like it's out of desperation.
28:03 - Yes, and he's not throwing these punches to get ahead.
28:06 He's throwing these punches
28:07 to keep from falling too far behind.
28:08 (bell dings)
28:11 - And I get it, he really wants to finish this fight.
28:20 It's a point of pride.
28:22 But I don't know what he's proving at this point.
28:26 (upbeat music)
28:29 - Fernandez Becerra, the trainer of Carlos Sanchez,
28:53 still giving advice to his charge.
28:57 As we take a look back,
28:58 some of the highlights from the previous round
29:01 and another knockdown from Steve Claggett.
29:04 - You saw Sanchez land an uppercut on the inside there,
29:07 but again, those left hooks to the body are adding up.
29:12 (bell dings)
29:18 - Round eight now.
29:22 And our 10 round co-feature between Steve Claggett
29:24 and Carlos Sanchez.
29:25 Sanchez has been on the canvas three times,
29:28 twice by body shots.
29:30 Once by a left hook to the head.
29:33 Steve Claggett has not slowed down since round one.
29:38 - Not at all.
29:48 - You can hear Sanchez's corner begging him
29:52 to throw the left hand.
29:53 But again, Sanchez's problems run much deeper
29:56 than that tonight.
29:56 - It's also a matter of finding the space
30:05 and finding the time to throw that shot.
30:07 When you have a guy in front of you throwing,
30:09 you know, what we'll estimate is approaching
30:11 a hundred punches per round.
30:13 - Sanchez's corner, I can hear them yelling into the ring
30:17 to spin Claggett around, put him on the ropes.
30:19 But again, all these things are much more easily said
30:22 than done.
30:24 No one of these things in isolation is going to salvage
30:26 this fight for Sanchez.
30:28 Another big right hand for Claggett.
30:35 - Far right hand to the body there from Claggett.
30:45 You can hear that one up here.
30:47 - Claggett again back downstairs to the body.
30:51 This is just an absolute thrashing round after round.
30:56 - You see Sanchez keeping his elbow right at that waist
31:04 because he's been hitting from left, left hooks to the body.
31:06 He doesn't want to swallow another one.
31:08 - Morgan, you can even hear the groans from the crowd
31:14 here in Gatineau as if to say, referee,
31:17 you know, have some thoughts about stopping this.
31:20 And again, Sanchez is doing it.
31:22 I understand why it's not being stopped,
31:24 but at the same time, this is,
31:27 it's been a while since Sanchez has shown anything
31:31 other than what we're talking about.
31:34 Really just the mentality of doing something
31:36 to get Claggett away from him.
31:38 - And again, this is the second time
31:40 we referenced this tonight,
31:41 but under the old amateur boxing rules,
31:43 where you had the running score count.
31:45 When a fight gets this lopsided,
31:46 the referee stops it outclassed.
31:48 And tonight Sanchez is outclassed.
31:51 And there's not much point in continuing to do this.
31:55 - Just firing those right hands to the body.
31:57 You see the grimace from Sanchez
31:59 trying to work through this.
32:00 Approaching the final 10 seconds of this round.
32:13 A one-sided mugging of a round,
32:15 but Sanchez remains on his feet in round eight.
32:19 - So this fight, Corey,
32:28 when people look at the results on BoxRec
32:30 and they see the scorecards,
32:32 the scores will make the fight look like
32:35 what it actually was, which was a landslide.
32:37 Well, right now it's a landslide still in progress,
32:40 but you know what I mean.
32:41 ♪ I still want your hands up on the body ♪
32:45 ♪ I'm used to when my heart beat fast and running ♪
32:49 ♪ We're beating for me, burning, burning ♪
32:53 ♪ Do you still want me? ♪
32:56 - I don't have a microphone in the corner.
32:57 I'm just trying to read the body language
32:59 in this conversation between Sanchez and his trainer.
33:01 - Don't trade punches with him.
33:04 - Does not look positive.
33:05 - He throws, hold him, or Bob and Rick
33:08 will not give him a chance to burn off.
33:12 - Let's go.
33:13 (whistle blows)
33:16 (bell dings)
33:26 - Round nine now underway.
33:29 - Corey, the conversation in Sanchez's corner
33:31 seems to have shifted from tactics and strategy
33:34 to motivation, trying to talk him
33:37 into finishing these last two rounds.
33:39 - And on the other side, in the corner of Steve Klaget,
33:42 Mike Moffat just telling him, just don't trade.
33:44 His only chance really at this point
33:46 is to land something wild.
33:47 - Yes.
33:49 - That's a different version of the Emanuel Stewart advice
33:52 to Lennox Lewis in the Mike Tyson fight.
33:54 His only chance, this man's still dangerous.
33:57 - Except he did not say this man.
33:58 - Right.
33:59 We are on the streaming service.
34:02 We're gonna keep it PG.
34:04 At least coming from us.
34:07 - Straight right hand from Sanchez a moment ago.
34:11 Punch combination there from Klaget.
34:25 Catches those shots, comes back.
34:28 Straight right hand, a left hook behind it.
34:32 - Yes.
34:33 - And you can hear Sanchez's corner just saying,
34:40 put him on the ropes, put him on the ropes,
34:42 throw the straight right hand.
34:44 But if it were that simple,
34:45 if it were as simple as putting Klaget on the ropes,
34:47 Sanchez would have done that eight rounds of it.
34:50 But it's not that simple against, again,
34:52 a pressure fighter who is a little bit bigger
34:54 and a little bit stronger than you are.
34:57 - And a hard left hand to the body there from Klaget.
35:02 (crowd shouting)
35:04 - Another right hand to the body as well.
35:07 - And Sanchez still moving his hands.
35:12 And even in these super one-sided rounds that we've seen,
35:17 the saving grace for Sanchez,
35:19 beyond firing back often enough,
35:21 which he obviously is doing,
35:23 he hasn't been totally out of control of his body
35:25 at any point, which is really, I think,
35:27 what the referee is looking for right now.
35:29 - Yes, which is also a very low bar to clear.
35:31 - Yes.
35:32 - But at the same time, it is a fight,
35:34 and as long as he's fighting back,
35:35 you cannot stop the fight.
35:37 - The referee can't.
35:41 - Four, five, six punch combination upstairs.
35:52 Sanchez riding with some of those,
35:53 but they are still connecting.
35:56 Final 30 seconds now of round nine.
35:59 (crowd shouting)
36:01 Klaget taking a little something off these punches now,
36:07 just flashing a little hand speed.
36:10 And trying to disguise another one
36:11 of those big left hooks to the body.
36:14 (bell ringing)
36:25 That'll do it for round nine.
36:27 (crowd applauding)
36:30 Let me take a look back at some of the action
36:43 from round nine.
36:44 And a credit to Carlos Sanchez,
36:47 who had many opportunities, Morgan,
36:50 to just stay on the canvas,
36:52 to find his way out of this fight.
36:54 But you talked to him before the fight,
36:56 and he had big dreams of where this fight could take him,
36:59 and clearly those are keeping him in this fight.
37:02 - Sort of.
37:03 I think he has downsized his dreams,
37:04 and his goal now is just to survive,
37:06 just to make 10 rounds.
37:08 Whereas his goal before this fight
37:10 was to beat Klaget and use that as a springboard
37:13 to propel him into fights
37:15 with the 140 pound division's elite.
37:18 But he cannot, in good faith,
37:20 believe that right now.
37:22 Right now the goal is just to get to the end of round 10.
37:25 (bell dinging)
37:28 - 10th and final round of our co-main event.
37:31 Between Steve Klaget and Carlos Sanchez.
37:33 Coming up next is our main event.
37:35 Christian and Billy and Daman Nicholson.
37:38 Super middleweight clash.
37:42 Billy, another fighter who operates
37:45 in the same vein as Steve Klaget.
37:47 All pressure, all the time.
37:53 The pressure of Klaget in this fight
37:55 has threatened to break Carlos Sanchez.
37:58 It almost has.
38:00 Sanchez, as you mentioned Morgan,
38:04 will have an opportunity to at least hear the final bell,
38:07 but look at him go.
38:08 Couple of those shots landing a moment ago.
38:12 - And he's fighting like a guy
38:13 who spent the last two or three rounds
38:15 saving energy for the 10th round.
38:17 This is more output, more authority
38:22 than we've seen from him in a long time.
38:24 And it's still not enough.
38:25 - Well, the issue for Sanchez
38:28 as he opens up a little bit more,
38:30 so do those routes to the body for Klaget.
38:32 Here Klaget's corner just telling him,
38:37 don't trade with him.
38:38 If you're Klaget, certainly keeping the knockout streak
38:45 alive would be lovely,
38:47 but this has been a thorough one-sided domination.
38:51 And that is plenty.
38:54 - Exactly.
38:55 Plus the fact that whatever one-punch power
39:04 Sanchez has shown earlier in his career,
39:07 he hasn't shown it against an opponent of Klaget's caliber.
39:10 And I don't know that he can access that type of power
39:14 after the type of beating he's taken,
39:16 especially to the body.
39:17 Another body jab from Klaget.
39:21 - Heavy jabs downstairs.
39:24 - Stab jab.
39:25 - Final minute of this contest.
39:29 - Other left hand to the body.
39:33 - It's as if Sanchez has felt those shots
39:39 and he's almost become accustomed to them.
39:41 - Yes.
39:42 - And he's able to absorb them now,
39:44 which fighters will tell you can happen.
39:47 Kind of feel the shot, you go down,
39:49 and then afterwards you're like,
39:50 okay, I can take that.
39:52 - Yes.
39:53 - You hear Christian and Billy talk about
39:54 how he survived that eighth round against Carlos Gongora.
39:58 He said that at a certain point he was feeling shots
40:01 and just told himself, this doesn't hurt anymore.
40:03 - That might be what--
40:05 - I'm saying,
40:06 that's a mentality that non-fighters get un-understood.
40:09 - That might be what Sanchez has told himself.
40:11 But the scorecards aren't gonna account for that.
40:15 The scorecards are just gonna say one-sided beating.
40:19 - The final moments of this contest.
40:21 A gutsy effort from Carlos Sanchez
40:25 and a dominant one from the Dragon, Steve Kwek.
40:28 (crowd cheering)
40:31 You see the look on the face of Carlos Sanchez.
40:39 I'm sure everything is hurting right now.
40:42 (crowd cheering)
40:45 - Klaget's trainer, Mike Mafa,
40:57 has a little bit of work to do.
40:59 As we talked about at the beginning of our broadcast,
41:08 Klaget has entered the top 15 of a sanctioning body ranking.
41:13 (crowd cheering)
41:16 See if a victory here tonight can propel him
41:23 up a little bit higher as we look back
41:25 at the action of the 10th and final round.
41:27 - Here's Sanchez with more offense
41:31 in the first half of the 10th round
41:33 than we had seen from him
41:34 in the previous three rounds combined.
41:37 - But again, Klaget, just too busy,
41:39 too sharp, too aggressive,
41:42 too much pressure, too much accuracy.
41:44 - See the NABF title being hoisted up.
42:05 In effect, that is basically a trigger for the rankings.
42:08 - Yes.
42:09 - To have that, that is an indication
42:11 that you are somewhere in the rank.
42:13 I don't even know if there are clear rules
42:15 as to what exactly it does.
42:17 It moves you up in the ranks.
42:18 - Corey, is there a belt?
42:21 - Yeah, there is.
42:23 - And it's a title fight.
42:24 - That's right.
42:24 - Does not matter which letters are on that belt.
42:29 (intense music)
42:31 - Looks like the scorecards are in the ring.
42:42 Fighters will head to center ring
42:46 and we'll send it back down there
42:47 for the official decision.
42:57 (speaking in foreign language)
43:01 - After 10 action pack rounds,
43:04 we go to the judges' scorecards for the decision.
43:06 Judge Blouin scores about 98-89,
43:23 while judges Guérin and Woodburn see it 99-88.
43:27 All for the winner by unanimous decision,
43:31 and still NABF Super Lightweight Champion,
43:36 Steve "The Dragon" Klagen!
43:43 - So Steve Klagen picks up the 36th victory
43:52 of his pro career and--