After re-watching the Rios-Alvarez fight...Rios dominated.

agreed. rios was landing that short left hook at will and it looked like alvarado wasnt take rios' shots aswell well as rios took his.

 

Not really domination. If Rios was making him miss and landing as much as he was, then yeah. But it was unbelievably competitive up until the last round, whether Rios was winning exchanges or not.

Didn't really score it, but Rios was winning, not without Alvarado's success though.

 

I don't know about Alvarez but against ALVARADO the fight was pretty much even before the stoppage.

 

Alvarado had the tools to win, but didn't execute them enough. Just methodical movement and fighting off the jab, maintaining space and he would've won, but he fought to Rios' strengths.

 

Rios looked strong and he was making things difficult for Alvarado as things were progressing, but no way was he dominating. Neither guy was, in fact. I chose not to score because I just wanted to sit back and enjoy the action, but I felt Alvarado was outboxing him, and was doing enough to bag more rounds. But as I expected, Rios was the bigger, tougher and more durable of the two, and was always gonna' outlast Alvarado in such a war.

 

I had money on Rios and i had him down on my scorecard by 1 round going into the 7th.

 

I think this is where many on ESB fail in scoring fights. They are scoring boxing matches, not fights.

 

i agree.....some dude next to me looked at me after the 6th round and said...."that might've been rios's first round"....i was like WTF, he's been dominating him and even cracked him in the first hard, hurting alvarado......i gave mike 2 rounds

if mike uses his distance, he would be a champ at 140 easy....but being that big and brawling it out is only gonna get him hurt......for ****s sake when he was using his distance he looked great.....in round 5 i thought, oh **** the tide can change now easy if mike keeps this up

 

No one dominated this fight.

 

scorecard-wise, many made it seem like alvarado was dominating round by round.....definately not the case

i was there live and thought i was maybe being a bit biased, but when i got home i had it the same....5-2

 

Nah. There was a nice ebb and flow to this fight. Each guy had their moments. At times Alvarado looked like he was gonna gas, as did Rios. It seemed that the fight was always 1 or 2 punches away from someone putting themselves on the path to a stoppage win. I didn't like the stoppage.

 

even if rios won every round he still didn't dominate, the rounds were all ****ing wars