It was a close round. Steward sort of can sense a fights general direction. Obviouisly he's not Nostradamus but Paul's pressure seemed to coming along and making Martinez seem uncomfortable. Martinez came in and went to the body and then that added aggression helped him back up to time that back right hand. Paul Williams always came in... just a devastating punch. PW started faster than in the first fight. So I get what Steward was getting at.
martinez did win the first round in my eyes due to the fact that there were two left hands towards the middle of the round when he was against the ropes that seemed to have had an effect. i would called those sponge left hooks caused they seemed to have sucked some life out of him, he just didn't look right the second after he absorbed them.
I had Martinez winning the first round! Williams refused to fight Martinez unless he got his judges, referee, venure, commentators, and Goosen had full control of the fight. Martinez had been robbed in the first fight. He knew that he had to knock Williams out or he would get robbed again. Catch weight was required by Williams also. I had Martinez winning the first round, the commentators were trying to tell us that Williams was winning the fight as usual, he fighting a perfect fight. Oh well, Martinez took it out of the judges, commentator's, Goosen's hands. Great job Martinez.
That's why Martinez knew he had to take it out of Williams/Goosen's judges hands. Even Harold had the first round for Martinez.
Are you guys serious? I must have lost my ability to score a fight completely, cuz I had round 1 for Williams by a bit. I was completely on the Martinez bandwagon, but I couldn't give it to him, Williams was winning by the fight. He was landing clean often enough, his punches were surprisingly fast this time, he was catching Martinez with right hooks, although I agree Martinez was landing harder. I'm not calling it a lucky KO by any means, Martinez was timing him and buying his time, but it was no dominant performance until the KO. Addie...Margo/Pac was more competative? Are you drunk?
Count the left hands that smash into the face of PW, mate. There were a shocking number of them in the 1st foreshadowing the one that ended it, and each of them was worth about 5-6 of Paul's power punches.
No. HBO was really jocking Williams tonight, I guess they were banking on a PW victory so they gave him a lot of praise for punches that weren't landing and work that wasn't effective
I agree Martinez was landing hard, but I feel round one paul was outlanding him and using the distance better. I admit that my eyes aren't fast enough to count punches thrown this fast, but even on the slow motion replays when they showed PWill on the ropes (Martinez's best moments, they were landing 1 to 1). I just don't see a domination, I see Martinez waiting for his moment while Williams was fighting a better fight this time around.