the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

That's one of Reg's. :good

He trotted that one out for the Larry Holmes - Marvis Frazier fight too.

 

Roldan was fun. He used to wrestle bears, so they say.

 

:rofl

You seen Cerdeno lose the title to Kobayashi? If not I'll upload it when I get back...I take it you have subscribed to my channel? :hey

Lora, any update on Zapata-Vorasingh or Berkrek-and guy who's name I (criminally) can't remember at the mo'?

 

Give me a week or so, too busy gettin' my **** sucked for the next week.

 

****er That's non-consented bumming I'll have you know.

 

Emile Griffith vs Brian Curvis

Good infighting skills by both.....nice defensive skills by Curvis, very elusive......But Curvis stays in the close range a bit too much ....even so he landed good body punches himself sometimes......however, the Emile´s body punches really hurted him more than once after the first 5 rounds....hard hard body shots !!

Curvis didn´t try to box all the time.....but when he did (especially in the second half of the fight).. it was really good to watch....
The british landed great straight lefts during the fight....


EG - 1, 3, 6 (10-8 body punch), 7, 8, 10 (10- 8 ), 11, 12, 13 (10-8, body punch again), 14, 15

BC- 2, 4, 5, 9

 

I haven't come across them Flea.To be honest i need to put a good few days aside to really sort stuff out.

 

Griffiths right uppercut to the body was sickening. Lovely performance by Griffith.

Watched Benitez vs Cervantes. Really good performance by Benitez but it is a weird fight. For long periods of the fight Benitez is making Cervantes miss but not really doing much with it. I loved the way Benitez negated Cervantes' range, by slightly leaning to his own left and pivoting through with a snappy jab, really lovely stuff.

Offensivly Benitez wasn't as sharp ashe would become, although he showed it in flashes, like the fifteenth for instance where he gets inside and throws four lovely uppercuts to the body and throughout the early rounds he lands some lovely 1-2-left hooks combinations. But generally his offence consists of his jab and a lunging left hook and as the bout progressed he got slightly more sloppy with each, however, admirably, kept his defensive poise, resulting in a weird situation where Cervantes was keeping good form but couldnt land anything because of Benitez defence and Benitez couldnt capitalise on the misses because of his offensive sloppiness.

Benitez became a much more aesthetically pleasing fighter up at Welterweight IMO, just hadnt quite put everything together here.

Benitez :1,2,3,4,5,7,12,13,15
Cervantes:8,10,14
Total: 147-141 Benitez (9-3-3)

Rounds missing: 6,9,11

Version I watched was the best quality version around but has three rounds missing, have a fullcopy somewhere.

 

Joe Calzaghe-Charles Brewer

Reasonably entertaining fight...Starts at a very brisk pace, both guys very willing to mix it up early.
Joe won wide but not easily if you ask me...Makes a bit of a meal of it at times with his winging shots and awkward showboating..But once he calmed down a bit and started using his footspeed and 1-2/left leads down the pipe he ran away with it.

Never really seem to bother the average whiskers of Brewer but Charles seemed to have the best passage late in the 7th where he had Joe a little bit buzzed from a succession of hooks and uppercuts.

JC...2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12
CB..1,7
Scored the 11th even..couldn't really split them there, neither did particularly clean work..Brewer had a good last minute, Joe seemed to edge to early part of the round.

The first I could see for Joe but IMO he wasn't landing anything of real quality..was made to miss big at times and took some clean shots on the inside that the Welsh crowd probably would have missed.

JC's conditioning is something else though..only thing that really stood out for me in this fight.