Easter Jr. vs Barthelemy HIGHLIGHTS: April 27, 2019 - PBC on Showtime

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Robert Easter Jr. and Rances Barthelemy fought to a split-draw in their matchup for the vacant WBA Lightweight World Title Saturday on SHOWTIME from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
The challenging fight to score was ruled 115-113 Barthelemy, 115-113 Easter and 114-114. The WBA 135-pound title remains vacant following the split decision.
With both former world champions needing a win in a crossroads affair, neither fighter was able to pull the trigger in a matchup of talented counterpunchers. The tall, rangy lightweights competed on the outside for much of the 12-round bout, and while both relied on their reach to keep their opponent at bay, they failed to land many effective shots from the outside.
The switch-hitting Cuban Barthelemy (27-1-1, 14 KOs), who fought defensively for most of the fight, transitioned to mostly southpaw in the third. The former two-division world champion’s most effective punches appeared to be body shots from the southpaw stance, while Easter (21-1-1, 14 KOs) was at his best when he countered with his right.
As the 12-round affair progressed, the corners of both fighters - Robert Easter Sr. and former Cuban champion Joel Casamayor - pleaded with their pugilists to increase their output to little avail. Neither fighter landed 10 punches in any round, and while Easter was slightly more active they combined to throw just 743 punches. They combined to land just 106 total punches.
“I feel I did enough to win this fight but the judges saw it differently,” said Easter, who was fighting for the first time since losing to pound-for-pound great Mikey Garcia in a unification last summer. “They saw it a different way. Rances is a crafty fighter, an elusive fighter. I tried to take the fight to him but he wouldn’t take it. It was hard to land my shots.”
Barthelemy, who was returning to lightweight after losing a rematch to Kiryl Relikh in his bid to become Cuba’s first three-division world champion, was frustrated with the decision.
“Robert was absent in the ring tonight,” Barthelemy said. “I wanted him to land his right and he didn’t. I wanted him to come forward and he didn’t. We were prepared for a different Robert Easter - the one that attacks - but he didn’t show up so I couldn’t deliver my strategy.
“I landed the cleaner and more accurate shots. I feel I threw more punches. I was the busier fighter. I won the fight. I think this was a missed opportunity for me. I really feel I won this fight.”
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[@Roux_504]

Wait They found highlights?

[@godlybrotherm3059]

Roux_504 made they own highlights lls

[@greene363]

And then they threatened us with talks of a rematch

[@mightyrupert344]

😭😂

[@bogdonbogdonovic5381]

☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@G-gnome]

The highlights... that was the entire fight!

[@TheLordHighXcutioner]

Hahaha "highlights". PBC matchmaker needs to know what "styles makes fights" mean. Don't match up these types of styles anymore.

[@rafyg3314]

12 rounds of sparring.

[@rp8253]

Best bit of the fight was when the final bell rang. Stephen Espinoza is an idiot for buying this fight. Barthelemy stinks the joint out every time .

[@cpierre7777]

Great fight vs russel tn though

[@rp8253]

@@cpierre7777 lmaooo man replies to a 3yr old comment..

[@topshottadinero3537]

Side show bob vs jack from nightmare before Christmas

[@helper1379]

Maybe i need to see the whole fight, because people saying the fight was trash but the highlights are looking real good to me💯💯💯

[@diamondmoore3165]

People be hating bro idc Easter won this fight

[@datgmanz7751]

Trash fight

[@kinghitman6270]

Looks like it was a good fight lol

[@FBA-Reddawg2.0]

Rances barthemy whats up with that side show Bob hair cuz damn Bru lol!!!!!

[@RDK-2292]

Easter Needs to let dem hands go

[@grantmays]

I also think that people were hired to cheer and scream the whole fight, to help prevent any booing. I was wondering what they were cheering about since nobody was landing any punches.

[@grantmays]

Fixed, scripted fight, as bad as Pacquaio vs Mayweather. When a professional boxer throws a punch and misses by two feet, he is clearly not trying to land the punch at all. And Barthelemy should win an Oscar for his "I got robbed" performance.

[@mikenojones6861]

Lmao your still mad floyd beat manny easily 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@alidaygo619]

I thought it was a draw

[@mmmodafoca]

it should've been a no contest and started handing out people's money as soon as the crowd started exiting the venue.

[@mik7652]

Lmao, they were like let’s get this money and get outta here

[@hussainak8914]

fight of the year candidate along with chisora vs gashi

[@mightyrupert344]

🤨

[@foxwolf316]

hmm i wonder why the highlight is 54 seconds long

[@little-nitus956ramirez8]

dgaf easter is a over all solid dude he went tic for tac with mikey despite coming up short and the knockdown but he just needs a new rythm

[@mikenojones6861]

*Easter won this fight*

[@clairer1249]

The true winners were literally everyone who watched this fight, cause anyone that managed to last 12 rounds watching this pathetic display of a shit show deserves a prize.

[@long-timelistenerfirst-t-us2yy]

Easter is tryin to be _street_ and Barthélemy is tryin to be _Zab Judah._ *lol*

[@darkpassenger23]

Anyone got the full fight

[@darkpassenger23]

@Dottor Cisafrulli Lol

[@chrisfrancis9555]

Casuals smh i remember this fight and it was a good ass fight 💯

[@JayJoe626]

😂😂😂

[@bugdogfrancesml5502]

Cuba #1

[@DanielO-101]

This is what I'm talking about.

[@carmeloortiz4076]

Who ever said styles makes fights,is 💯 correct, cause i liked Robert after the fight with Garcia,and in this one,it was very disappointed.

[@jude0117]

these 2 definitely talked before the fight. They just wanted to get the bag. what a disgrace

[@ThePainCadet]

Bad fight

[@LadyG04]

I’ve watched a lot of Fights and this Fight was the Worse fight that I’ve ever watched. It was so disappointing but they should know that styles make fights.

[@marvinrichardson9215]

Easter won that sad decision

[@naz3365]

One of the worst fights of all time

[@heavendreamful]

Horror boxe

[@carloscalderon518]

Que pelea tan mala

[@marvinrichardson9215]

Bartelemey 🗑

[@tezatmezat]

Boxing is dead, so sad

[@abuqatada2389]

Robert Easter won, they robbed him again just like they did after he beat Mikey

[@LUIGAUZUKI]

mikey whooped that boys ass lol dropped him like 3 times

[@sinclair1420]

Ohhh and i guess broner beat pacquiao?? 😂😂😂

[@alidaygo619]

Stay off the drugs 😂😂

[@alpizzle2963]

Nah homie Mikey whipped his ass but he clearly won this fight