GBP & TR on ESPN: Jorge Luis Linares Palencia vs. Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko RBR

I was just asking someone the other day if anyone actually went to Arby's. They've had the lowest popularity of any of the big fast food chains, but they've been around my whole life. McDonalds is like fine cuisine to them. Obviously, someone has been eating there, despite their reputation. I just don't know any.

 

Yes yes... we know how special Crawford is.....

 

If Barrera had more power he could be winning the fight, but he doesn't, and I only have him winning the third.

Adames does not look like a star.

 

Just finished work. Adames has some tools, including the ability to switch hit, but seems quite content to coast, and allowed the reasonably useful Barrera to out-hustle him for extended stretches in the 7th.

 

This guy is nothing special... unless he is completely disregarding his opponent.
He gets hit too much

 

Whatever happened to Rocky, just wanting to go the distance, and prove that he belongs there, that he won't submit, standing tall, sticking it out through the good and the bad, showing what you're worth? I can't stand quitters. This is a test of manliness. It's not just about hurting other people, it's showing that you don't care about getting hurt. That's what separates it from track or basketball, the endurance and fortitude.

I respect a guy who gets knocked out, a no hoper who goes out on his shield more than a quitter, who waves the white flag, gives up, and surrenders at the first sign of adversity. One of the greatest things about this sport are the guys who find something extra inside themselves and come back. That's the most thrilling thing there is, when you get off the mat and win.

 

Strangely, I thought he looked better in the first round, even though it was debatable that he won it. But that's probably just because he kept himself a bit more compact. Didn't see as many of these wasted punches and got caught less. Seems to think he has more power than he actually does and, a decent engine apart (prefaced, of course, by the fact he's in with a pillow-fister), I'm not seeing much to write home about.

 

Did he really get hit flush though in the head? He landed mostly body shots and some grazing/short punches from what I remember.