Blair ‘The Aptitude’ Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) desires Ryan Garcia subsequent following his ten-round unanimous resolution over a really faded-looking Adrien Broner (35-5-1, 24 KOs) vs. Blair Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) final Friday night time on the Seminole Exhausting Rock Lodge & On line casino in Hollywood, Florida. The possibilities of Cobbs getting a struggle in opposition to Ryan are slim. If Kingry goes to struggle anybody, it gained’t be Cobbs.
Cobbs, 34, was at his greatest early within the contest, knocking the 34-year-old Broner down within the second spherical and having him near being stopped after hitting him with an avalanche of blows whereas he was shelled up in opposition to the ropes.
Broner took a shellacking throughout that spherical sequence, and he recovered after Cobbs punched himself out and backed off. AB completed the spherical sturdy, touchdown laborious pictures to the pinnacle of the fatigued Cobbs.
The scores had been 97-91, 96-93, and 96-93.
Curiously, Cobbs didn’t go for the kill the way in which one of many top-level welterweights like Jaron Ennis or Brian Norman Jr. would have. These welterweights would have completed off Broner within the third spherical with energy pictures, however Cobbs isn’t that sort of fighter by way of energy, expertise, and conditioning.
From the third spherical on, Cobbs fought at a measured tempo, selecting Broner off with laborious lefts and jabs, mixing his punches up nicely from head to physique.
After the struggle, Cobbs’ face appeared extra marked up than Broner’s, and that was unusual. Broner had a worn-out look to him, like he hadn’t slept in weeks, and you would inform that he wasn’t bodily match to struggle a ten-round bout at his age along with his nativity over the past six years of his once-promising profession.
Blair Cobbs’ Publish-Battle Name-Out
“I noticed one thing on Instagram. Ryan Garcia was rooting for ‘AB,’” Cobbs stated to the media after the struggle, speaking about Adrien Broner. “That was hurtful as a result of I assumed we had been boys. However get your woman out of DMs.”
Cobbs’ efficiency in opposition to the diminished, washed-up Broner final night time wasn’t spectacular sufficient to translate to a struggle in opposition to Ryan Garcia, who jumped on him and took benefit of his incapability to struggle laborious with out taking prolonged relaxation breaks. Ryan has an excessive amount of velocity, energy, and youth for Cobbs to mess with him.
You possibly can’t knock Cobbs for desirous to struggle Ryan as a result of the payday he would get combating him on PPV could be huge, possible within the hundreds of thousands, and that might be victory sufficient.
It doesn’t appear sensible that Ryan would even entertain the concept in a critical means of combating Cobbs fairly than one of many fashionable, related top-tier 147-pounders if he chooses to struggle somebody from that weight class when he returns to the ring.
“He obtained me right here [right eye] a few instances. Not that many instances he landed, however he did very nicely. Blair ‘The Aptitude’ prevailed. Each spherical, I pressured and stayed constant. Excessive, low, excessive, low. I made myself as unpredictable as doable.
“I by no means really feel I’m in full management of a struggle. I’m truly not as cocky as I look. It’s only a facade. I used to be out for a very long time. That was a two-year layoff. That was a protracted layoff.”
