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00:00 We received the instructions.
00:02 Protect yourself at all times.
00:04 We're listening to my command.
00:06 We're listening to the command.
00:08 Touch them up. Good luck, girls.
00:10 Let's take a look at the tail of the tape.
00:14 And as you probably saw during the stare-down,
00:16 Tamea Nagy will enjoy a fairly substantial height advantage
00:20 over Vanessa Lepage-Joannis,
00:22 with just a two-inch reach advantage.
00:25 Lepage-Joannis, a former heavyweight title challenger,
00:29 fought Alejandro Jimenez for the WBC title back in 2017.
00:36 Following that, Lepage-Joannis, not long after it,
00:40 was in a car accident and after that,
00:43 took some time away from the sport.
00:45 A five-year absence away.
00:48 Lepage-Joannis says that she was 315 pounds at one point,
00:54 now fights somewhere between 175 and 310 pounds.
00:58 Between 175 and 178.
01:00 Rededicated herself to the sport and to fitness,
01:03 and now she believes is just a few steps away
01:06 from challenging for a heavyweight title again.
01:09 Corey, I figured out something about the reach statistics
01:12 that we're seeing on the tails of the tape.
01:15 That is actually arm length.
01:17 That is the armpit to the end of the fist measurement.
01:21 So in that context, two inches is actually a lot.
01:24 It's quite a bit.
01:26 Whether Nagy is fast enough to do anything about it
01:29 is something different.
01:31 There's a speed disparity here.
01:33 It's evident even this early in the fight.
01:35 Shot over the top there from Lepage-Joannis,
01:38 and now a nice left hook as well.
01:40 And we've seen Nagy on film.
01:45 She has a tendency to push her punches.
01:47 She's long, she's very strong,
01:49 but does not get a ton of leverage on her punches.
01:53 And that might be a problem for her here tonight,
01:55 because if she can't get Joannis' respect,
01:59 Lepage-Joannis' respect, get her attention,
02:01 get her to stop doing--
02:03 get her to start doing things differently,
02:05 it could be problems.
02:07 Watch your heads. Don't push now.
02:09 Final 20 seconds here in the opening round
02:11 against six two-minute rounds.
02:14 We're gradually seeing that tide changing in the women's game.
02:18 You probably saw the announcement
02:20 of Amanda Serrano's upcoming bout.
02:23 It's gonna be contested over three-minute rounds.
02:25 Tonight, just two minutes to work with
02:27 for both Lepage-Joannis and Tameya Nagy.
02:30 And there's a nice left hook right at the bell from Joannis.
02:33 - They're calling your axe.
02:38 - 180, 180!
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03:23 [cheers and applause]
03:25 Did he even see the talking points I gave him?
03:27 - I don't believe so, sir.
03:28 - For all your--
03:29 [upbeat music]
03:32 ♪ ♪
03:37 [bell dings]
03:38 [indistinct chatter]
03:40 - Round two begins.
03:42 - Corey, we see this--
03:43 I don't know if the people viewing at home can see this,
03:45 but Tamea Nagy stands between rounds
03:47 like late-career George Foreman.
03:50 - Tamea Nagy also spent a long time in the amateurs.
03:55 She actually appeared in the World Amateur Championships
03:58 12 years apart.
04:00 - Wow.
04:01 - She made it to the semis at 81 kilos at the 2010 Worlds.
04:06 Just ate another big right hand over the top
04:09 from Lopaz Joanis.
04:10 And the building off of something that you pointed out
04:14 in the opening round, it seems like that size difference
04:17 is very much working against Tamea Nagy,
04:20 particularly with how straight up she stands.
04:23 - With how straight up she stands,
04:24 and that does tend to negate the reach advantage.
04:28 And because Lopaz Joanis is so aggressive and so fast
04:32 and so crafty getting inside,
04:33 again, if Nagy does not punch with leverage,
04:38 can't land something crisp and solid
04:41 to get Lopaz Joanis' respect,
04:42 she's gonna have problems over these six rounds.
04:44 - She's eating some heavy shots to the body right now
04:48 as Lopaz Joanis just banging away downstairs.
04:52 [whistle blows]
04:55 [whistle blows]
04:58 - The women's heavyweight division,
04:59 certainly not the deepest in the sport,
05:01 but it's starting to produce some more interesting names.
05:04 Lanie Daniels, who has the IBF title over in New Zealand,
05:08 could be an interesting option for Lopaz Joanis
05:11 if that fight could potentially materialize.
05:15 She puts another two-punch combination together up top.
05:19 - Yeah, Lopaz Joanis seems to have a plan
05:22 for how she wants to get inside
05:23 and what she wants to do when she gets there,
05:25 whereas Nagy does not seem to have much of a plan
05:27 besides being big and long to keep Lopaz Joanis on the outside.
05:33 [bell dings]
05:38 [crowd cheering]
05:41 ♪
05:49 - Let me take a look back at some of the good work
06:01 from Vanessa Lopaz Joanis in round two.
06:03 - Here you have Nagy with the longer arms
06:05 but short-arming a series of jabs,
06:07 and Lopaz Joanis just gets inside and gets to work.
06:12 Like right there, that quick right hand over the top.
06:21 I don't know that Nagy has an answer for that
06:23 or a way to prevent it.
06:26 [whistle blows]
06:36 [crowd chanting]
06:39 - Nagy! Nagy! Nagy!
06:42 Nagy! Nagy! Nagy!
06:44 - As round three now begins,
06:45 you saw Zoltan Petrany in the corner of Tameya Nagy,
06:49 and typically, if you see a Hungarian fighter
06:51 fighting anywhere, you'll see that same fedora
06:54 and the same polo and Zoltan Petrany in their corner.
06:58 He probably has more miles than anyone in boxing.
07:03 His next three or four vacations
07:05 are probably already paid for just in air miles.
07:09 The hardest-working man in this business.
07:12 - First two rounds, not surprisingly scored
07:15 for Vanessa Lopaz Joanis by our French colleague,
07:19 Matt Cassavant.
07:22 Hard right hand to the body from Lopaz Joanis.
07:30 [whistle blows]
07:33 - Break! Break!
07:45 - Nagy absorbing a lot of heavy shots right now.
07:48 We did see her go some rounds.
07:49 She's a pretty good fighter in her second pro fight
07:53 in Germany.
07:54 Check on Sarah Schoerich,
07:57 a very high-level amateur in the German system.
08:00 - And this is a much tougher fight than Schoerich.
08:02 - Oh, significantly so.
08:03 - This is a much tougher fight.
08:04 - A much more physical fight.
08:05 - Yes.
08:06 - While Schoerich was simply outboxing Nagy for the most part,
08:10 Lopaz Joanis is looking to hurt Nagy.
08:13 - She's hurting him. Yes.
08:14 - Nagy! Nagy! Nagy!
08:16 - Hard left hook connects upstairs from Lopaz Joanis.
08:19 - Nagy! Nagy! Nagy!
08:22 - Reply there from Nagy a moment ago.
08:27 - Well, Nagy doing some decent work on the inside here.
08:30 You do see the head snap back on Lopaz Joanis
08:33 every once in a while,
08:34 but the heavier, tidier work and much more of it
08:38 is coming from Lopaz Joanis.
08:41 - And Nagy does some good work on the inside
08:49 but doesn't quite seem to know how to get the fight
08:52 back to the outside where she would prefer it.
08:55 - On the inside, she can do some work,
08:58 but she's going to get outwards.
08:59 On the outside, she has a chance,
09:00 but she doesn't know how to get there and stay there.
09:03 - We're starting on the fourth.
09:05 On the fourth, I want to have a three.
09:07 The distance is explosive.
09:09 When I get in, it goes down again.
09:11 She goes down to the bottom.
09:13 When you're stuck, I want you to play with your shorts.
09:16 You're in his shorts.
09:18 We're going to break it up a bit on the show.
09:20 I want to have pins. I want to have skis.
09:23 When you're stuck on it, it's skis.
09:26 We're going to finish with a little bit of dirt.
09:30 - [speaking Spanish]
09:33 - We take a look back at the previous round here.
09:45 Some good action on the inside, as you mentioned.
09:48 You know, Nagy is able to do some work here and there,
09:51 but is just getting overwhelmed with power and volume
09:53 by Lopazzo Anis.
09:54 - And again, Lopazzo Anis, really keen sense
09:58 of when to go to the body and when to go to the head
10:00 and how to mix the two.
10:02 How to use one to set up the other.
10:04 - Just like that, the right hand downstairs,
10:06 the big left hook up top.
10:08 Good way to start round four.
10:10 - Nagy! Nagy! Nagy! Nagy! Nagy!
10:26 - And now we've reached the point in this fight
10:28 that we've reached in several of the fights tonight.
10:31 Where the person who we think is on the losing end
10:35 of the scoring card starts looking for someplace
10:37 to go and find there is no place to go in this moment.
10:40 - Okay, so Nagy dropping her hands,
10:43 trying to use a little movement, but...
10:46 Not a lot of room to work with when it's 16 by 16.
10:52 - Push.
10:53 Push.
10:57 - And Nagy's gloves touch the canvas.
11:03 Will that be the rule of the knockdown?
11:05 It will be.
11:07 I heard the count begin.
11:09 The referee picks it up.
11:11 That will be scored at knockdown.
11:13 And this crowd, that was already getting loud,
11:17 will be even louder.
11:19 - And Mikajo Anise emboldened by what just happened.
11:23 Nagy tried to tie up.
11:25 Mikajo Anise trying to create separation.
11:28 She looks to capitalize on that knockdown.
11:31 Mikajo Anise bangs away to the body once more.
11:38 - And again, the activity level in this fight
11:44 is something that you only see because you have two in a round.
11:48 - So if you want to make all fights
11:50 across the gender spectrum, two-minute rounds on four.
11:53 - Hard right hand to the body, right at the bell.
11:56 Monstrous round for Vanessa Likajo Anise.
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12:55 [cheers and applause]
12:58 [bell dings]
13:00 [cheers and applause]
13:03 - As Round 5 begins, we'll do a little housekeeping
13:10 in the corner of La Page of Joannès.
13:13 [crowd shouting]
13:15 - Now, Corey, are they going to put those five seconds
13:18 back on the clock?
13:19 - I feel like they would have to, yeah.
13:21 [crowd shouting]
13:23 - It looks like we're starting this round from 1:55.
13:25 - Well, that's our clock.
13:26 The official clock may be a little bit different.
13:28 - That is true. We're about to find out.
13:30 - [laughs]
13:31 - Round 5 now officially underway.
13:34 One thing we definitely saw in the last round,
13:37 particularly when you slow things down
13:39 and look at the highlights, Morgan,
13:41 is just how uncomfortable Nagy is
13:44 with the physicality that Vanessa La Page of Joannès
13:47 is bringing, and you think about the 15-plus years
13:51 that Tameya Nagy spent in the adult amateurs,
13:54 so to speak. - Yes.
13:55 - It's just a very different type of physicality
13:57 that you're gonna encounter. - Right.
13:59 - And she just does not seem at ease with it right now.
14:01 - It's a different type of physicality,
14:03 and honestly, you just don't find a lot of fighters
14:06 that fight like La Page of Joannès does.
14:08 Like, you can tell watching her fight,
14:10 she's watched a lot of Mike Tyson film coming up,
14:14 because she's figured out how to pair elusiveness
14:17 with aggression, get inside, do some damage,
14:20 work your angles, do some more damage.
14:22 And again, you don't see a lot of fighters like that,
14:25 male or female.
14:27 But especially, again, when we compare the fight
14:30 that Nagy had in Germany, complete opposite of this.
14:33 And if those are the fights you've been having,
14:35 it's hard to prepare for someone like La Page of Joannès.
14:38 - Yeah, the sort of tacit agreement
14:41 that we're going to box that range,
14:43 we're gonna do things neatly. - Yes.
14:45 - That's not something that La Page of Joannès
14:47 is often into here tonight.
14:49 - Just the foot speed, the aggression,
14:51 and the physical strength,
14:53 which is distinct from punching power.
14:55 La Page of Joannès puts all of that together.
14:58 [crowd cheering]
15:01 And again, just this ability, this sense of when to go
15:07 to the head and how to string those together.
15:10 La Page of Joannès is getting a lot of mileage
15:14 out of that tonight.
15:15 - Final moments of round five
15:17 as La Page of Joannès rips one more right hand to the body.
15:20 [bell dings]
15:21 And that'll do it.
15:22 Two minutes to go in this contest.
15:24 [crowd cheering]
15:27 - Just heading to her corner after that round,
15:33 Nagy looks exhausted.
15:36 For good reason, trying to keep pace with La Page of Joannès,
15:40 who's setting a high tempo here and daring Nagy to keep up.
15:44 [crowd cheering]
15:47 - [speaking French]
16:03 - Another dominant round from Vanessa La Page of Joannès
16:06 as we take a look back at round five.
16:08 - Yeah, and you see Nagy trying to lead with an uppercut.
16:13 You see her moving to her right,
16:14 but also leading with the right hand,
16:16 trying to keep La Page of Joannès off her.
16:18 She's just trying anything--
16:21 just trying anything and trying to see what works,
16:24 because what she has done so far has not worked
16:26 in terms of giving herself some room to breathe.
16:32 - Sixth and final round of this contest.
16:36 As you pointed out, Morgan,
16:38 Tamaya Nagy looking exhausted in the corner.
16:40 She's an avid half marathoner.
16:42 She's running 21K all the time.
16:44 This is a different kind of cardio.
16:46 - A different tempo, a different level of intensity.
16:49 Now, she's running those 21 kilometers
16:52 a quarter mile at a time, all-out sprints.
16:55 That would be something different.
16:56 That would be more akin to what she's being asked to do right here.
16:59 [crowd cheering]
17:03 - La Page of Joannès digging to the body once more,
17:05 looking for an uppercut.
17:07 And Nagy has offered up a couple of futile uppercuts
17:10 here and there.
17:13 But as we pointed out,
17:14 just does not have too many answers on the inside.
17:18 Around round two, she landed a couple short shots,
17:21 but is just being physically overwhelmed by La Page of Joannès.
17:25 - And just with the pace La Page of Joannès is setting,
17:27 it's so hard to keep up.
17:30 Unless you can hit her hard enough
17:32 to get her to change her pace.
17:34 And Nagy has not been able to do that.
17:37 - That left hook a moment ago from La Page of Joannès
17:40 made Nagy back up to the ropes.
17:42 And La Page of Joannès may be seeing something here.
17:45 - That overhand right, finishing with the left hook.
17:49 Nagy has no--has had no answers for that all night.
17:55 - Well, she's given La Page of Joannès no reason
17:57 to take anything off her shots.
17:58 La Page of Joannès is just throwing heat nonstop.
18:01 - Yes, another left hand to the jaw.
18:04 From La Page of Joannès.
18:08 It's been a really impressive performance from her so far.
18:14 - Final 10 seconds of this contest
18:22 as they march towards another heavyweight title shot.
18:26 As La Page of Joannès continues.
18:29 And she certainly has her hometown audience behind her.
18:50 - A really gutsy effort from Tameya Nagy.
18:53 As we take a look back at the sixth and final round here,
19:04 Nagy absorbed a lot of punishment in this fight, Morgan.
19:09 Only touched the canvas once, you know,
19:11 a little bit of a debatable knockdown,
19:14 although I'm sure we'll get a closer look at it
19:16 a little bit later.
19:17 But Nagy, as we've talked about, just ran into an opponent
19:21 who was not going to obey the type of boxing
19:24 that I think Nagy was gonna be comfortable with here tonight.
19:27 - Yes, and who was determined, but not just determined,
19:29 but had a game plan, and not just had a game plan,
19:31 but also had technique, and knew how to implement that game plan.
19:34 That was just a lot for Nagy to have to deal with.
19:37 Again, the fight we saw her have in Germany
19:39 kind of took place at Nagy's pace and Nagy's range.
19:45 And La Paz Joanis was just not letting her have any of that.
19:49 - La Paz Joanis with her promoter, Camila Estefan.
19:59 And similar to what we talked about with Steve Klaget,
20:02 Eye of the Tiger willing to take a chance
20:04 on La Paz Joanis coming off a five-year layoff,
20:07 and now may have her a step or two away
20:10 from fighting for a women's heavyweight title.
20:12 - Well, this is the beauty of the women's divisions,
20:15 is that you have elite fighters, you have everyone else.
20:19 So even if you lose a fight, like the road back to a title fight,
20:22 if you are elite, it is not a very long one.
20:25 You go right back into the mix.
20:27 - Looks like we are ready with the decision
20:32 as we send it back down to the center of the ring.
20:39 - Ladies and gentlemen, after six rounds,
20:41 we go to the judges' scorecards for the decision.
20:46 The judges are giving out 60-53 identical cards,
20:50 all in favor of the winner by unanimous decision.
20:54 All three judges scored the bout 60-53
20:58 for the winner by unanimous decision,
21:01 Vanessa "La Paz" Joanis!
21:06 [cheers and applause]
21:09 - So Vanessa "La Paz" Joanis improves to 6-1,
21:19 a dominant win over a much larger opponent
21:23 in Tameya Nagy.
21:25 Managed to prop Nagy once and did not lose.