Chambers Defeats Brock

Undefeated “Fast” Eddie Chambers (30-0, 16 KOs) won a 12-round split decision victory last night over Calvin Brock (31-2, 23 KOs) in the International Boxing Federation eliminator bout at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, WA. The final judges’ scores were 115-113, 115-113 for Chambers and 115-113 for Brock. However, the bout looked more like a draw to me, as Brock out-landed Chambers in virtually every round of the fight aside from the 12th round. Unfortunately for Brock, his fast looked like he’d been hit by a mack truck, because he was badly lumped up with horrible looking swelling under each eye.

Whatever the case, he lost the first four rounds on my card. However, Chambers came alive in round five, landing fast combinations and piercing jabs which swelled up both of Brock’s eyes. In rounds six through eight, Chambers clearly won, landing the much sharper punches compared to Brock’s slow, and weaker shots. However, Brock continued to put hands on Chambers the entire time, and in the 19th and 11th, Brock appeared to win the rounds due to his massive punch output. Where Brock went wrong, though, is in the 12th, when he suddenly decided to run from Chambers. It looked bad, and it made him seem if he was afraid of him. Not surprisingly, the judges’ also didn’t care for Brock’s running, which is why they probably scored it like they did.