the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

Foreman vs Chuvalo , not much to this but a young Hungry Foreman dismantling the Canadian.

 

Finally , Cotto vs Mayweather , it took me a lot of time 2 get it . A watchable fight , is d fairest thing 2 claim about it , which is quite a lot .
Mayweather was d older man but d much fresher , also seemed bigger in terms of size , reach and muscle mass . No KDs , fairly paced , very few clinches , headbutts and cuts , quite a clean fight .
Pacquiao performed better on paper only if 1 doesn't know how 2 read d paper . Pacquiao fought a 145 Cotto , whereas Mayweather fought a 154 Cotto . If anything this is Cotto's only "loss" . I believe that back in 2007 Cotto would have done better vs Floyd .

 

Pedroza kind of does that in most of the fights i've seen him in, even though he wasn't that talented and had little skill.

He had a rep as a really big puncher at the time, maybe that was it, along with being really awkward.Seemed to put a certain caution into fighters even if they were boxing rings around him.

Watanabe was the same, dominated, hurt him numerous times throughout the fight, but never quite followed through with it and stayed on the move throughout, giving the odd round away in safety-first mode to recharge as you might do when in with a really dangerous fighter you feel you need to be at your sharpest to engage.

Ballas too really should have beat him widely over 15(he'd done so over 10) but seemed to have a certain caution bred into him.

Reminds me of the way Hagler dealt with Hamsho the first time, winning by a mile but seemingly very cautious about engaging.As if Mustafa was an offensive beast.

 

probably just not wanting to get cut to shreds in a flurry of headbutts and elbows in that last case though. :yep

 

Isufu Quartey TKO3 Vince Phillips (*2)
unlike d way it reads on paper Phillips tried hard but didn't hurt Quartey .
If they were equal in punching power and punch resistance then Phillips would have been d winner but 6 years older and "naturally" a 1 weight class smaller , Phillips was outgunned and stopped .
Good fight as long as it lasted .

 

Laurent Boudouani TKO Terry Norris .
Norris was d coming 4ward and Boudoani retreated most of d time .
Both seemed overstuffed , especially Boudoani who also seemed this way against Vasquez .
In 1st sight d stoppage looked premature but in d slow replay it seemed more legit . In d video that I have Norris did not seem 2 protest d stoppage and i wonder if he ever did .

 

HAPPY VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND!!

3 day weekend here in Canada and I celebrating by getting **** faced (almost there...and only 1 beer in but way too much weed ) and watching boxing with the wife (she's very patient)

Fight 1: Ricardo Lopez vs Rosendo Alvarez 2

116-113 Lopez

The showtime commentary comparisons to chavez taylor 1 were fair and this was VERY hard to judge, especially as Lopez is one of my all time favourites. In the end, alvarez's power or more accurate maybe, heaviness of hands demolished lopez's face but didn't win him enough rounds. When Alvarez through and was aggressive, he was able to bully Lopez into the ropes and pound away. Lopez offered no resistance at those stages. However, far too often Lopez and his jab reduced Alvarez's punch output to the point where he could rattle off 5 punches combos with decent accurarcy. Hard to score, damn close, VERY competitive rounds but a tight Lopez win.

 

Fight 2: Wilfredo Gomez vs Salvador Sanchez

Beers-2
Bong hits-2

At time of stoppage, 68-65 Sanchez

How the **** did this go past the first round??! That opener is now on my short list of favourite rounds ever. How did I not watch this fight before? Sanchez is a revelation and his chin and counterpunching are INCREDIBLE. Anyway, Gomez did far better that I thought he would, especially considering the first round. He pulled out those boxing skills and at times, was able to trap sanchez and rattle off combinations. Some good body work to. But sanchez's chopping right hand is a thing of beauty and his counter left hook landed way to often and way too heavily for Gomez to last long. Tremendous, tremendous fight

 

Fight 3: Basilio vs DeMarco 1 (what's on youtube anyway)

8-1 Basilio

Beers-2
Bong hits-3
Jack Daniels-2

So this is only the portions of the rounds that youtube had but I scored it overwhelmingly for Basilio. Great brawl, fought almost entirely on the inside from what I can see. Basilio won on my scorecard for those digging right hands to the side of DeMarco every time they clinched. His body work as a whole was tremendous and his jab landed with surprising frequently. DeMarco was there the whole time and his right hand had some beef to it but Basilio just outworked him badly in close.

Starting to get tipsy, except some less...reasonable scores soon

 

Fight 4: Carbajal vs Gonzalez 1

Gonzalez 59-54 at time of stoppage

Beers-2
Bong hits-3
Jack Daniels-2
(fight was shorter than i recalled)

Wow, ok this is certainly a fight of the year. Tremendous mini war and my cards do not do justice to how well Carbajal was doing. Gonzalez won many more rounds but every round that didn't feature a knockdown was close. Back and forth war, with amazing inside fighting. Both fighters worked up and down the ladder, attacking body and head. Carbajals punches were MUCH straight and sharper but gonzalez was relentless, drilling head and body with heavy, heavy bombs. carbajal is one of the better counter punchers i've seen of that decade. wonderful knockout and MASSIVE comeback by carbajal (on my scorecard anyway)

 

Watched Emile Griffith vs. Isaac Logart.

Scored it thus:

Isaac Logart vs. Emile Griffith : 97-96 Logart
Griffith: 1,2 & 9.
Logart: 4,6,7 & 8.
Rounds 3,5 and 10 even.

A good competitive fight that could have gone either way like many of Griffith's ten round affairs.

Griffith was the slightly quicker and got off to a good start, but then Logart found his rhythm in the middle rounds and started to land the cleaner shots.

Griffith tried to bring the fight to Logart, despite being the smaller man, but I thought Logart continued to land the better shots and didn't get mauled in the clinches (Griffith's tactics after Logart started to control the outside) enough for Griffith to get the verdict.

True to form, Griffith got the decision.

True to form, another Cuban gets no favours in the States.