Yan Barthelemy got knocked out! *Photo's included*

Well this Jorge Diaz guy is now 10-0, who knows how good he is?

 

That's sad. But without any kind of power, it became clear after a few fights he's always going to struggle. Here's Dan Rafael's piece:

Junior featherweight Jorge Diaz (10-0, 6 KOs), a Jersey City product with tremendous crowd support, gave the fans something to cheer as he put Yan Barthelemy (8-2, 1 KO) to sleep with a massive left hook at 1:07 of the sixth and final round.

Diaz is managed by Pat Lynch, the career-long manager of the late Arturo Gatti, and he showed a bit of Gatti's flair for the dramatic. Diaz also considered Gatti an idol and is trained by longtime Gatti assistant trainer Mikey Skowronski.

Barthelemy, a 2004 Cuban Olympic gold medalist who defected and turned pro in 2007, had Diaz in some trouble in the fourth round. But Diaz, like Gatti did so many times, turned it around. He was unloading combinations on Barthelemy in the sixth round when he suddenly caught him on the chin with the left hand. Barthelemy fell face-first to the canvas and was out, sending the crowd into a standing ovation.

 

I never had faith in Barthelemy, that first loss to a nobody was an omen.

 

after watching his 4th fight as a pro i knew bart was in trouble

 

he beat yuriorkis gamboa twice in the amatuers

 

yeah but its not the same, when he beat yuri he was like 24 and yuri was like 20-21

but anyways amateurs is a whole different story

 

yeah i know but its just sad cause he probly will never be a big name fighter and now he cant go back to cuba

 

Two things: Barthelemy was a late replacement and I wonder if anybody knows if he was in shape or not. It was a high and stupid risk he took, against an undefeated fighter, who was trainning even with Juanma Lopez, therefore at the highest level. Probably he wanted that much to take part on the same card as his two countrymen, Gamboa and Solis, with whom he defected from Cuba two years ago. Second I read reports about he was defeating Diaz before the fight got stopped in just the last round.

 

Never, I saw Barthelemy fight a lot of times back in Cuba, he always seemed weak to me.

 

When I seen his hairline, I told a friend of mine that he'll be the first to fall...

 

I too knew he was gonna be the first to fall. Besides that, he is not gonna achieve anything.