Steven Luevano-Bernabe Concepcion: Who Wins?

Just a heads up, I agree with the DQ but I might have heard the bell only twice tonight, including all the undercards. If anyone should have gotten the feet put to the fire, it should be Nady. He was nowhere to be found at the end of the round to break the fighters.
Also, Luevano should have kept his hands up. He was acknowledging that Bernabe had him hurt, almost about to congratulate him when he got hammered. He was overly sportmanlike and he paid the price.
Furthermore, it seemed Steven changed his gameplan after taking alot of hard bodyshots. He was throwing a million jabs to keep Bernabe off of him.
It was a good fight ruined by a overly anxious young kid seeing an opening, another fighter letting down his guard, and mostly by a garbage ref who didn't do what he was supposed to.

 

lurker,

concepcion may have landed some good shots but he never hurt luevano. the one who was getting frustrated was concepcion cause luevano was outboxing him. if this fight would have gone the distance luevano would have won going away by a lopsided score!

 

He was mostly backhand swatting a "jab" and did get pushed around alot in the early rounds. I figured Steven would counter him beautifully all night long and likely stop him late or UD him.
I also figured Bernabe would be more aggressive and it would be a decent scrap. Alas, it wasn't to be and the fight sucked.
Almost all of the fights sucked.

 

Rightfully so, he's at least three times the fighter Bernabe is.

Anybody know what the official judges' scorecards read after 7?

 

I was wondering the same thing.

 

lurker,

yeah, the way bernabe concepcion fought tonight was a prime example of a good prospect getting rushed too fast into title fight. luevano is a well schooled boxer/puncher who is very intelligent. to beat him you need more than just raw power.

 

No doubt but thats the price the flips will pay for putting their boys in too deep too soon.
In desperately trying to find the next Manny Pacquiao, they're burning up their boxing future.

 

Exactly. Boxing here in the Philippines is not really a big thing unlike in Cuba, UK, or there in the US. You dont have the weekly tournaments over here by competing gyms. You dont really have trainers here who teach solid fundamentals to students. Unlike in some countries where gyms enter in boxing tournaments that last for days and where the fighting is consistent, fghting over here is very rare. I think that is the reason why our development is hindered.

 

Rafael Concepcion put on a much impressive performance than Gabby.

 

:good

 

bernabe concepcion another hype job like rey bautista and a.j. banal!

 

16 fights, with only 2 at feather. Why would you go after the champ?
Let the guy develop before you feed him to the sharks. If Bernabe was more aggressive, Luevano woulda made him pay. Maybe with the rest of his career.

 

Once a boxer like Penalosa retires he would make a great trainer for all these prospects in the Philippines considering he's one of the best technical boxers from there.

And yeah I have to agree that one of the main reasons why these Filipino boxers may seem like "hype jobs" is the lack of experience. Plus like SweetScience said the trainers there may not teach much fundamentals. Hopefully they soon realize that there is only one Manny Pacquiao.

I give Bernabe a chance to improve though, he's only 23 or so.

 

Banal is not a hype job. As you could see tonight Rafa Concepcion is just a tough sob.

 

He made the P4P #7 look like ****. Total disappointment.