What Fights did you watch today?

...I didn't read the opening post. I should have I guess. I'll do an analysis later.

 

Last fight I watched was Tyrell Biggs vs David Bey, about a week or so ago.

 

Barrera v Hamed:

Barrera entered the ring with an interesting strategy: make Hamed lead and then counter. It's something most observers did not expect, least of all Hamed himself. While I would not call it a masterclass by Barrera, he executed the plan with flawless precision and admirable controlled aggression.

His famed left hook to the body and his left hook to the head repeatedly found their mark against the confused Hamed, and his jab kept Hamed in check. Hamed, looking always to throw the big left hand, seemed utterly at a loss as to what to do against Barrera, and he resorted to winding up on occasion and missing horribly, and embarking on infantile theatrics such as smiling or making faces.

Barrera, continually circling to his left to stay away from Hamed's dangerous left, would show restraint by not initiating, but rather forcing Hamed to commit himself to throwing a punch. This lead to the fight being fought at a very pedestrian pace, with both fighters barely averaging 30 punches per round.
Hamed became increasingly reluctant to lead, as doing so was met with a painful (or at least points scoring) retort from Barrera. However, behind on the cards and with Emmanual Steward begging him to throw punches in combination, Hamed was in a way forced to initiate, like it or not.

Barrera did initiate a few punches on occasion, but this I suspect was not so much forgetting the fight plan so much as it was a lure to draw Hamed into an attempted counter. It could have also been a ploy to keep Hamed continually guessing.
Whatever the motive, Hamed was certainly guessing, and getting increasingy confused and frustrated.

While his excellent athleticism and awkwardness had served him well in fights up until now, it was clearly evident that neither was providing an answer to the patient, workmanlike Barrera. Hamed had ben put in a shell and he wasn't coming out.

Finally in the twelfth and final round, Barrera, perhaps feeling that 'Naz' had been completely nufllified, or perhaps recalling his fight earlier with Morales where the decision went against him, decided to open up a little and go after Hamed. It was a good round for Barrera, and it served as a punctuation mark for the preceding 11 rounds.

I scored the fight loosely in my head, and I agreed with the judge who gave it to Barrera by the score of 116-111. Hamed simply did not do enough to get any closer on the cards.

 

De La Hoya vs Derrell Coley.

Good performance by Oscar, but not great. He showed he was easily strong enough to overpower a natural ww and he ended the contest with some vicious bodyshots, but I think Oscar on his best night would've got Coley out of there quicker and with less effort. Coley was spirited but just not good enough. Like a slightly worse version of Antwun Echols. More of a nuisance than a genuine threat.

 

Never seen this fight do you have a link maybe ?

 

Good man thanks, I seen your post later down this thread great stuff thats exactly how I feel about the fight. I do disagree when people call it masterful by Barrera because it wasnt but a fine performence regardless.

 

Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor - This fight is incredible the momentum swings back and forth almost every single round. Its not one of those fights where its like ok one guy is dominating doing one thing, these guys just did it all. The 12th round was pure drama one of the best rounds ive ever seen IMO Gomez got a gift from the boxing gods at the end of that round he would have been stopped violently if there was just 5-6 secounds left he was shook badly hell his cornermen had to carry him back to the corner. I think fatigue hit Pintor alittle in the 14th the shots that dropped him didnt look particularly devestating. Kinda stinks there was never a rematch Pintor proved he could hang at that weight but Gomez went up in weight.

 

Teeto! Are you reading this?

 

Just watched an interesting one though incomplete, about 6 or 7 rounds. Rafael Herrera vs Venice Borkorsor.
I thought Borkorsor the former WBC flyweight champ might of been unlucky in not becoming his country's first double champ here as he boxed a great fight from his southpaw stance. he continually moved backwards and to his left punishing Herrera by continually getting outside Herrera's right cross to land left hand counters flush. Rafael just couldn't deal with it and ended up badly banged up, specially round the right eye. It was one of the worst swellings I ever seen.
Herrera came forward throughout the fight and it was a gruelling battle for both men.
Rafael won a split decision with scores of 143-141, 144-142 and 141-145 Borkorsor. The unofficial upi score was 143-141 Borkorsor.
If anyones got the full fight I'd love to see it.
Funny enough I've just read up on Borkorsors title challenge against Rodolfo Martinez where it sounded like he was causing the same problems early on until Martinez worked it out and started switching between southpaw and orthodox.
Again Borkorsor took it to a split decision. On this occasion though in Thailand.
Venice, another one of those forgotten men.

 

The film is speeded up,but at the end of his career Liston still looks good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncRznqoGUUY

 

i have finally been allowed to take a laptop to work to watch fights so ill have about 10 reports for tommorow night

 

Funny, I watched this again recently as well. There was no way in the world Biggs was going to beat Tyson in his next fight. And they were some folks thinking the guy would outbox Tyson. I thought going into this bout that Bey was just an opponent with a name type guy. But it was hardly an easy fight.

All the fight proved was that both guys were on a similar level==B== and their respective management teams needed to be very selective with matchmaking.

 

Haha, i have now!

Took the words right out of your mouth didn't he?!

 

i just watched larry holmes vs ernie shavers II, a quick tiny analysis of the punch that larry holmes took from shavers and the fact that he got up from it...i think that showed the heart of larry holmes that for some reason people did not appreciate.

 

I`ve watched the following fights over the last few days:

Oscal Albarado vs Ryu Sorimachi
Eddie Perkins vs Ryu Sorimachi
Gene Fullmer vs Govan Small
Myung Woo Yuh vs Tomohiro Kiyuna
Ezzard Charles vs Rex Layne I&III
Joey Archer vs Carlos Salazar
Willie Pastrano vs Rodolfo Diaz
Jose Stable vs Vince Shomo
Billy Hunter vs Tony Anthony
Chong Pal Park vs Murray Sutherland
Walter Cartier vs Garth Panter
Joey Giardello vs Hal Sampson
Gene Armstrong vs Italo Scortichini
Dick Tiger vs Gene Armstrong I rds 7 to 10
Luis Rodriguez vs Holley Mims, Gene Smith, LC Morgan
Holley Mims vs Rocky Castellani
Eugene Hart vs Nate Collins
Bob Murphy vs Dan Bucceroni
Florentino Fernandez vs Rocky Rivero I&II