Translation: The Golpe A Golpe Ring- JMM Breaks Down the Best of Salido VS Lopez

Here's the translation of last week's breakdown of Salido-Lopez. The original clip can be viewed here:

http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/videohub/video/clipDeportes?id=1485674&cc=3888

Enjoy.

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Announcer Dude: We’ve arrived at the Golpe A Golpe ring to graphically elaborate with Juan Manuel Marquez on the fight between Orlando Salido and Juanma Lopez last weekend in Puerto Rico. Juan, some of the key aspects to the offensive of Orlando Salido; looking to get inside, and throwing his long right over his shoulder…but above all, the moment of the knockdown. How was it, Juan?

JMM: The knockdown was done in a very good form, where Orlando Salido gets himself inside, moving his waist, throwing a right uppercut, a left uppercut, a right hand-and he connected those 3 punches-and finishes off with the jab (throws combination), where Juanma Lopez goes to the canvas. There were a lot of punches-

Announcer Dude: He got him at the start of the round.

JMM: Exactly. And before then he had caught him with long right hands, from here (throws overhand right), directly onto the chin. With curved punches from the right, curved punches from the left, and throwing those big rights downstairs and upstairs, combining very well.

Announcer Dude: Now, when Orlando sets himself in front, usually, Juanma wanted to catch him with his right hook, which is very, very strong. But Salido would first throw that long right hand of which we were talking about.

JMM: What happens there is, Salido had already done his work well. Juanma wanted to connect with his right hook, and what Salido would do would be to get inside, duck at that moment, and from there land the overhand right (ducks under right hook while throwing looped right hand), from far, very far, and very strong. And they would find each other (collide), and when a strong punch lands there, it always makes the blow land even harder than it would normally.

Announcer Dude: The uppercut is just to throw the hand from down upwards, Juan (motions uppercut)…It has great effect coming out from the mandible, and turning completely with the waist.

JMM: That’s right.

Announcer Dude: And it looks perfect in the technique of Orlando, of how one blow brings you to the next one (throws combination).

JMM: What happens is that out of a southpaw guard, what Orlando Salido does is that he crouches down (crouches), and it gives him the correct position to turn his waist (throws right uppercut), and from there comes the other one (throws left uppercut), and after that the right (throws right), and then he finishes with the jab (jabs.) I think they were very, very, very good combinations, and very strong ones.

Announcer Dude: Full guard huh? (Laughs, referring to the excitement with which JMM threw his combinations)

JMM: Yes, full guard, because I don’t want to hit you (laughs)

Announcer Dude: Hey Juan: when Juanma sends Orlando Salido to the canvas, it’s also a moment of, above all, extraordinary footwork, because he was cornered

JMM: Exactly, and a counterpunch; a very good counterpunch that Juanma Lopez executed. He’s a southpaw (assumes southpaw stance), Juanma Lopez, and in comes “El Siri” Salido, but he comes in with this hand low (gestures to Announcer Dude’s left hand). What Juanma Lopez does is catch him there, with just one small step backwards (throws right hook); he catches him there, and “Siri” Salido goes to the canvas. Very good counterpunch. There, he thinks…he makes a mistake in thinking that he could have gotten the knockout, and looks for the knockout in the 3, 4 following rounds, and makes the mistake of exchanging punches with a fighter who’s very strong, who can take a lot (of punishment) as we said in the intermission where we had him interviewed via telephone…and so he makes the error, Juanma Lopez, in standing there, and exchanging punches with him.

Announcer Dude: Now, Salido carries some luck with him, because he goes to the floor, and there are some 20, 15 seconds left, and he doesn’t give Juanma Lopez the opportunity to go after him and look to finish him.

JMM: We know that that’s what he wanted, but if Juanma looks for that, he also runs the risk that Orlando Salido connects on him. Salido is a fighter who recovers, and he recovered very well; so if Juanma Lopez looks for the knockout, then possibly they can connect on him and make him go to the canvas. I think, (it was) a great fight that the fans enjoyed…

Announcer Dude: Absolutely. The fight of the year.

JMM: I was there; I was present, and it looked like I was fighting, I was moving around (pretends to slip punches). A great fight, congratulations to both, but more so to the winner, who in this case was “Siri” Salido.

 

:good

They really do, it gets bad sometimes.

It's a good technical fight. Marquez swept a vast majority of rounds, but Salido made it close in many of them.

 

No problem! He really is a pleasure to watch and listen to. More casual fans could use a show like this.