The 'what fights did you watch today?' thread

Rafael Marquez vs Heriberto Ruiz

Hardly a punch thrown for the best part of 3 rounds and then out of nowhere Marquez takes him out with one punch, clinical.

No need to count

KO about 9.05

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Jhonny Gonzalez Vs Gerry Penelosa

Had only seen the stoppage before, but this is a good fight between two lower weight stand outs. Penelosa, a crafty and nails veteran, Vs Gonzalez, the vulnerable puncher.

GONZALEZ: 2; 3; 4; 5; 6;
PENELOSA: 1;

After a slow start, Gonzalez manages to land the snappier shots and outwork a game and patient Penelosa, already looking for the left to the body. All the rounds are close and competitive, but Penelosa is just following Gonzalez around and being outworked by a more eye catching fighter. Gonzalez digs in late as well, so scoring rounds for him is pretty easy here.

With Gonzalez winning all the rounds after the first on my card, employing lateral movement and throwing in bursts, Penelosa catches him with a left hand counter to the body, which is the only punch he's really been looking for in the fight, and all of Jhonnys energy leaves him.

Penelosa KO7 Gonzalez

Vic Darchinyan Vs Yonnhy Perez

Vic back to his brutal best. Perez looking finished as a top level fighter. Perez has always looked seriously tough, but he got tentative after getting caught early, but to his credit absorbs a beating from Vics heavy hands. I love Darchinyan, he always comes in with the intention of smashing his opponent to bits. He scores a knockdown in the second with a counter left uppercut, and Perez, usually able to keep pace and swing it, is reduced to suggesting punches, and Vic walks him down. In the 3rd, Perez has some more success with a winging right hand, but that game is Vics and he surges again in the second half of the round.

A bad clash of heads ends it in the sixth, with Vic winning a UD. I had him winning every round as well, this was a drubbing. Whether this was the weight, too many tough fights in a row against top opposition or the fact he tasted Vics power early and didn't like it I don't know, but Perez looked washed-up.

Big kudos to Vic though, he can't blast these guys out like he did at the lower weights, but he's as vicious and awkward as ever.

Vic Darchinyan Vs Tomas Rojas

I didn't think I'd seen this before, but I think I might be more familiar with Gusano than I first thought, as I remember this, and have always thought it was against some journeyman (probably just glanced at Rojas' record before it). Not a bad showing from him, but devastating from Darchinyan. Rojas took the first well, landing a lovely left hand counter early and outmanouvering Vic until the end, when he came to life and cracked Gusano hard. Again, Rojas doing well in the 2nd, bossing the fight and knocking Vic back with his long, winged shots. Then, right near the end, Vic crabs him into the ropes, swings like a madman, and Gusano ducks right into, falling hard through the ropes and wasted.

Darchinyan KO2 Rojas

 

Darchinyan/Perez is one of the beatdowns of the year so far, for me. Stood out alongside Wolak/Foreman in terms of one sided drubbings.

 

Whitaker vs Roger Mayweather.

I hadn't seen this fight for years but it was extremely enjoyable. Good little brawl which was a lot closer than the lop-sided points decision suggested.

 

Yep, good fight that, and you have an ATG username :yep :good

 

Kell Brook

 

IP ban this ****

 

this:deal

 

:yep

 

Dude is the new "koki_kameda".

 

Dude is a new ****.

Thoughts on Sahaprom? Never the no.1 118lber, and pretty basic, but would you agree that what he did, he did well?

And of Chitalada? He seems to think he's slicker than he actually is, to me anyway.

 

I thought Sahaprom was one of the prototypes for the Thai boxer. Very, very well schooled and organised with everything he did. Just a consumate technician. He'd have handled himself very well with any Bantamweight since he started out.

Chitalada was very impressive when on form I thought, he was just a typical lazy *******. This is one of his better performances. You've probably seen it, but if not, enjoy.

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Yeah, seen that one. His jab was a ****in' weapon! Seen his fight some Jap' where he actually drops him with his jab.

Lazy, or probably suffering with big weight cuts?

I agree with Sahaprom, post-Konadu really tightened up his game. His right hand was a brilliant weapon, used it like a jab, and once he found his range with it was unshiftable.

Best 118lber you could envision him beating? And the same for Sot, in terms of Flyweights?

 

Yes, that too. He was quite the large Flyweight.

I'd narrowly favour Sahaprom over Marquez, actually. As for Chitalada, I think at his best he'd be hell for the significantly smaller men, the pure boxers in particular. His physical gifts combined with that size would make a very stern test for the likes of Canto and co.

On the subject of Asian fighters (but straying from the Thai theme), have you seen anything of Masamori Tokuyama or Chul-Ho Kim? If not I think you'd really like Kim in particular. He may even remind you of that one they call "The Korean Hawk".

 

I think Sahaprom woulda' beaten Marquez as well. Better at getting out of range, and he'd have little worries finding Rafa. Really good fight that, Marquez could bomb him out as well if he gets his shots off.

Tokuyama? I've seen someone with that name fight Gerry Penelosa IIRC.

Ho Kim, I have no recollection of.

Explain further on both please, and I'll be sure to look 'em up tonight :good