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Middleweight EOY Tournament - First Round Match
Sydney Stadium, Sydney NSW (AUSTRALIA)
7 January 2011

#4 CH-Tiger Flowers 68-20-5 (21) 1DQ vs. #13 Rocky Graziano 55-33-4 (47)

3rd Meeting (Flowers leads series 2-0)

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Round 1: Huge opening round for the defending champion. Flowers seems to land his punches at will. Graziano is outlanded 57-7

Round 2: Flowers traps Graziano in a corner. Graziano cannot seem to land any of his punches. Referee warns Flowers for holding and hitting. Another big round for Flowers

Round 3: Flowers darts in an out, keeping Graziano off balance. Better round for Graziano, but he is still being outlanded 2:1

Round 4: Graziano lands an uppercut, but there wasn't much on it. Flowers is dancing around the ring. Close round. Graziano is starting to land more.

Round 5: Good action round. Too close to call. Flowers is starting to feel Graziano's power

Round 6: Referee tells Flowers to keep his punches up and issues a warning. Flowers is using his legs to stay away from Graziano. Flowers clinches when Graziano gets too close. Graziano is again having difficulty landing his punches

Round 7: Graziano is getting pretty disgusted. Flowers is the busier fighter, but gets hurt at one point by a Graziano body shot. Flowers manages to smother most of Graziano's punches

Round 8: Referee deducts a point from Flowers for a low blow. It seems that the referee is the only one to have actually seen it. Flowers flicks out his jab. Referee warns Flowers for leaning on Graziano's neck. Graziano hurts Flowers witha vicious cross.

Round 9: Flowers wins an exchange in the center of the ring. A jab snaps Graziano's head back and a cut opens on his forehead. Close round

Round 10: Cut on Graziano's forehead is reopened and bleeding profusely. Graziano doesn't have much left. Referee admonishes Flowers for holding and hitting and then deducts a point from him. Huge round for the champion. Flowers outlands Graziano 71-13

Round 11: Flowers opens round with a nice two-punch combination. Graziano is bleeding again from the cut on his forehead. Blood is trickling into Graziano's face. Referee stops action and asks the doctor to examine him. Doctor allows fight to continue. Lots of clinching and holding. Referee issues a warning to Graziano for holding and hitting. Flowers continues to be the busier fighter

Round 12: Fighters ard just pawing at each other. Graziano's forehead cut starts bleeding into his eyes again resulting in another visit to the doctor. Doctor lets the fight continue. Lots of pushing and shoving this round

Round 13: Cut is reopened and blood continues to flow into Graziano's eyes. Referee sees Flowers leaning on Graziano's neck, stops action and deducts another point from the champion --- that 3 points deducted so far this fight. Graziano manages to smother many of Flowers' punches, but does ablsolutely nothing offensively

Round 14: Cut is repened again and blood is flowing into Graziano's eye. Graziano seems to be having difficulty seeing. Referee stops action and consults the doctor again. This time, the doctor has seen enough and will not let Graziano continue. Referee calls an end to the fight @ 1:15 of Round 14

CH-Tiger Flowers W-TKO14(c) Rocky Graziano

Tiger Flowers retains the Middleweight Title