Despite his pain, Keino, with help from teammate Ben Jipcho, set a furious pace over the length of the race, negating Ryun's powerful finishing kick.
Downes set a furious pace only to fade in the later rounds as Pender seized control through his straight right hands and short, hurtful hooks to the body.
Macklin set a furious pace from the opening round and it seemed impossible that the fighter from Birmingham, who has trained and lived in about a dozen cities since turning professional 10 years ago, could maintain the two-handed attack.
Ashfaq survived a bloody last round to beat Ukraine's Mykola Butsenko and earn a place at bantamweight, and flyweight Muhammad Ali set a furious pace en route to outpointing Bulgaria's Daniel Asenov.
Enrique Peña Nieto, who became president on December 1st, has set a furious pace, pushing through reforms designed to correct some of his country's long-standing structural weaknesses.Out of government, Mr Peña's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran Mexico for seven uninterrupted decades until 2000, had acted as an obstacle to reform rather than an instigator.
The Isle of Man rider then set a furious pace up the final 7.8km ascent to Ax 3 Domaines - so furious that he ran out of energy and was forced to drop away with around 6km remaining.
By the time the race reached the Alpe for the first time, Froome had already come under pressure from Contador's Saxo Tinkoff team-mates, who set a furious pace in the first hour of the 172.5km stage.
However, this time Murphy timed his charge to perfection after Richard Johnson had set a furious early pace on Wishfull Thinking, only to fade down the hill.
Refreshed by a week off, Wigan set off at a furious pace and ought to have had more than two points to show for all their enterprise and territorial domination.
After a furious pace had been set through the first mile, the race boiled down to a head-to-head duel up the straight between Grundy and Bustino, with the younger horse winning by half a length after a battle that swiftly – and justifiably – became known as "the race of the century".
