The 'what fights did you watch today?' thread

Tiger Vs Hank is a WAR!

And yes Lora...very impressive wins on paper.

 

Argenis Mendez vs Juan Carlos Salgado (115-111 Mendez)

Good little fight for the vacant IBF Super Featherweight title in Mexico, took place last year. Lots of close rounds, particularly in the first half of the fight, which I found difficult to score. I know it get's said a lot in fight where there is a clash of styles, but it really comes down to who's work you appreciate more in the many close rounds of this fight. The pinpoint accuracy of the counterpunching Mendez, though low in output, or the aggresion and high output work of Salgado, who wasn't very accurate. Most of the frst 6/7 could have gone to either fighter, based on who's work you preferred. I thought Mendez was better in most, he landed the sharper, cleaner shots whilst Salgado wasn't landing too much clean. Argenis won the fight on my card with his work in the last 5 rounds, 4 of which he won in a dominant manner. He gave Salgado a whooping in the late rounds, particularly in the last where he nearly stopped an exhausted Juan Carlos.

I don't think Mendez could complain too much about not getting the decision. I gave it to him fairly widely, but there were too many close rounds for it to be a robbery. Mendez can only blame himself. He didn't lead with the jab anywhere near enough, his output was far too low and he tried to be too cute. Reminds me of Adrien Broner in a way, he doesn't use his attributes to compliment his style enough. If Mendez had of actually pressured Salgado, jabbed him and increased his output in general, he wouldn't of lost. He probably would have knocked the Mexican out had he done that too.

 

Chavez vs Taylor. Wowzers!

Merchant is a tool.

 

Great fight, fair stoppage.

 

It's still hard to stomach though :yep.

I won't dispute the stoppage, it was by the book.

 

"**** you Richard Steele"-Julio Cesar Chavez

 

Why did he say that?

 

Because he was deducted points against Frankie Randall. On the cards it cost him the fight but truth is he was thoroughly beaten and dropped for the first time in his career (heavily as well, from one shot, was really chilling first time I ever saw it, seeing Chavez get put down :-() and he went mad at Richard Steele.

Sore loser was Julio.

 

Mate do you remember when Merchant called Julio a quitter?:rofl

"Buuuulllllllshitttttt"

 

Fancy going mad at Steele after Richy had done him that massive favour all those years earlier :-(

:yep Joke.

You could see how much Chavez got vexed each time he lost. Looked like he could kill on site after De La Hoya beat him.

 

No, I actually agree with the Steele analysis. That and Steele seemed a nice guy, Chavez was spitting venom at him!

 

Julio was always a miserable fecker :yep

 

Yep the ref got it right. The clock is irrelevant. He'd be to blame if Taylor had , had a turn for the worse.

Hmmm what next?

 

Watched one of roy jones ealy fights vs glenn thomas and Johnny Saxton vs Camen Basilio 2.


A word on the Saxton fight, I cant understand why Johnny chose to fight Camen's fight in close for the first five rounds. Fighting his usual boxing, counterpunching style would have worked a lot better against a fighter like Basilio. He seemed to try to get back into boxing after the 6th round but Carmen had aleady laid a bit of a beating on him, and was coming on big time. A really enoyable fight though, Saxton was out on his feet by the time of the stoppage.

 

Does anyone remember the postfight of the 2nd De La Hoya-Chavez fight? Larry Merchant was trying to interview Julio in the dressing room and Larry made some comment about him quiting, Julio nearly went ****ing mad at Merchant