the what fights did you watch today\scorecard thread.

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****, I hate to laugh, but I did for about 5 minutes.

 

I watched number two the other day, good display.

I love the way in the first bout Qawi is jabbing to the body and slowly bringing down the guard before launching a right over the top.

Apparently an accidental clash of heads ended it.

 

Thanks for sharing your great memories duranimal. :good

Are you still with the same wife?

 

I've been watching Nicolino Locche: 'The Untouchable.' Can't believe I never heard of him before.

Interesting and unique boxer, great defensive style.

 

His fights with Fuji and Hernandez are up on Youtube. Both clinics, but the Fuji fight in particular is one of the most masterful schoolings I've ever seen. You could pretty much count on one hand the number of times he's hit flush in the fight.

 

Thanks, bud, I'll check it out. Someone ought to post a few threads about this guy, he's an inspiration. A real shame he was such a weak puncher.

If you never saw him check him out, you'll be impressed for sure. Nicolino Locche: 'The Untouchable!'

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8aerkHG_7A"]Nicolino Locche - El Intocable (The Untouchable)[/ame]

 

Sot Chitalada KO4 Rae-Ki Ahn

Prime Chitalada at his best dismantling his limited foe before stopping him with a trademark long heavy jab.

Notable for Reg Gutteridge uttering the immortal line "it was actually a Korean who is the only man to beat Chitalada...JUNNNNNG-KOOOOO CHAAANG...sounds more like a takeaway than a fighter"

 

Fidel Bassa vs Ray Medel


Good fight with thoroughly biased American commentating.

Bassa does his usual thing for the first half of the fight, working angles all the time with crafty footwork and jab keeping the pressuring Medel from getting off first while looking for chopping, slightly looped counter rights and beautiful uppercuts with both hands.

Gradually a combination of Medel seeming to be the stronger man and Bassa willing to fight inside and trade punches saw it become a more action packed inside fight, with Bassa's better defence and punchpicking keeping him ahead.

Medel, a sturdy one-dimensional aggressive standup box-fighter with good punch variety and solid combinations who got the fight through beating Paul Gonzales has a good patch from 8 to 10, finally getting to Bassa semi-consistently with good shots and making it a back and forth fight.Cue commentators flying into a frenzy saying if only he had done this all along he would be winning easily etc:roll:

Bassa though comfortably closes things out.A good performance against a decent steady challenger.Drawbacks would be Bassa couldn't seem to hurt Medel at all and while the infighting wasn't forced on him per se and he still usually had the better of it, he also clearly tired\lost sharpness after several rounds of it and became more hittable.

While a sophisticated boxer-puncher, he was certainly not the sturdiest or most durable and stamina laden of Flyweights.Reminds me of Dejesus and the latter 154 Kalule in that sense.It woulc certainly be the main exploitable in matchups with other Flyweight notables.

Herol Graham vs Sanderline Williams


Another entertaining , if occasionally sloppy-infight.

Williams was a relatively unknown contender at this point and not the high-level slick journeyman he became.Graham just signed to a bigger promoter for the first time is clearly looking past him and just out for a KO initially.Very similar scenario to his first fight with Sumbu.

Of course, no KO is forthcoming against the crafty, super-tough Williams and Graham shows his usual headstrong lack of ring-generalship in basically keeping going for it for the entire ten rounds, making things a fast paced infight.Williams is quite happy to oblige, looking to smother Graham's combinations and counter.

And so it goes, with Graham outworking and outlanding him in nearly every round, but Williams always in the fight and winning the crowd over.Gaham is actually a much more adept infighter than you might expect from his usual approach(slipping blocking and shortening things up capably), but is always overeager and sloppy enough at some point to let the well schooled less active Williams get in his own counter, usually by pulling prematurely out of the infighting to try and create a new angle.Williams caught on to it and had his best moments then with the straight right, but unfortunately as was often the case with him he faded towards the end, had to ration things and was even surprisingly rocked at one point circa 8th 9th, though he had a good rally in the 10th.

Graham won clear enough, but was booed by the Irish crowd who had appreciated the gutsy performance of the soon to be god journeyman.

 

Fidel Bassa vs Jesus "kiki" Rojas


An interesting, if not particularly great fight which saw bassa lose his title on home ground and retire afterward with a detached retina.

Rojas, was a Venezuelan standup boxer-puncher not too different from Previous challenger Medel in style, just with quicker, bouncier feet and more content to stay on the outside.Not too imaginative or skilled, butpossessing a good heavy jab and throws nice textbook punches at times.

He wins this fight by being a dirty fouling, mauling ******* whenever he goes inside and was the lesser fighter in nearly every round in which he fought a clean fight.

That's not too say Bassa fought particularly well however; his performance had the air of an off-form fighter looking to fight within himself and coast by.It also highlighted some key weaknesses, especially that Rojas was able to have success at all with the roughousing strategy he would eventually adopt.

Barely into the first round and he's been made to pay for probably his biggest technical weakness...leaping impatiently in without a feint and with a looped right hand lead.When he comes in behind a feint or jab, or even just a proper straight right he's sneaky and effective, but too often he gets wreckless and neglects things.Being basically a technician who doesn't seem to have the knack for when to throw a trusty telegraphed bomb, this leads to problems.

Namely Rojas beats him to the punch with a much shorter right of his own and floors him.The ref misses it however and Rojas proceeds to follow up with a bolo uppercut on an all-fours Bassa which gets him rightful time to recover and no knockdown against him.

Most of the first 8 then proceed in a similar fashion.Bassa doing his angle and distance control work, generally outjabbing the taller man and getting the better of most exchanges.He's not as active or sharp as most previous defences though, and it's very dirty whenever things linger inside-both are cut for most of the fight.

circa 4th Bassa is punished for the exact same leaping in, being beaten to the punch and floored again.Once again it's missed, helped by the fact he wasn't hurt at all by it.

circa 8th and 9th Bassa either starts to fade a notch physically again(like the Mede bout) or decides it's in the bag and a good idea to take the workrate down a few levels.Probably a bit of both.

This evens the rounds out and brings Rojas into ascendance in the jabbing, he's also slowly been getting dirtier and attempting more sudden charges, which Bassa doesn't respond much to.Not much clean work from either fighter anymore.

Now i don't know when the eye injury occurred.Bassa had been pawing at it agitatedly since about the 5th, but that may have just been because of the cuts.Rojas isn't taking any chances and near the end of decent 10th for him, he delivers a classic Lennox-esque hold behind the neck inside uppercut which doesn't hurt Bassa, but see's him intantly back out holding his eye, upon which Rojas surges forward grabbing him and hip tossing him onto the floor.

After that he goes into overdrive and just mauls the crap out of him for the last two rounds, barely landing a clean punch that isn't a headbutt, forearm or elbow.I'm unsure how much is because of the by now likely ****ed up eye, but Bassa can't do a thing about it other than foul back, despite still moving well when he gets the chance.His punch timing has gone.

All in all this fight pissed me off.I'm not sure Rojas won anywhere near enough rounds to get the decision, especially as his knockdowns weren't counted.Even in the late rounds he was hardly doing much clean punching.

Very surprising that he got the decision in Colombia.My copy cuts off before the decision is announced, but i wouldn't be surprised if the already riled up crowd caused a lot of trouble.

Still, the end of the fight was embarassing for Bassa.He was tiring, manhandled and unable to counter it, though with the cuts and an eye injury i can give him the benefit of the doubt it's not representitive of his best.Nonetheless i can't help but think the way things went over the last 4 rounds or so tie in with my opinion he just isn't a strong resilient Flyweight.

This fight imo is also key in highlighting the beginning of the downfall in quality in the WBA brand of Flyweight champions.Rojas wasn't an entirely bad fighter, but he hardly distinguished himself here and promptly lost the title in a close even fight with nondescript Yul-Woo Lee, before becoming another Venezuelan WBA favourite son.Reaping their favour with a handful of undeserved title shots over the course of the next decade.

The WBA Flyweight title largely since the days of Zapata and Bassa has passed hands between a number of unspectacular fighters right up until today.Some like Ploenchit(probably the best of the lot other than for a very brief period, past prime Yong-kang kim), Morel, Parra(vastly exciting favourite of mine), Sakata even lasted for a couple of years and handful of defences.I haven't been impressed by any of them as genuine talents, even if there have been plenty of competitive entertaining fights over the last 20 years.

Bassa had his flaws and being forced to retire while relatively prime i would say fell short of being a great fighter, but decades later the Fisherman is still the last very good WBA Flyweight champion imo.

 

Loving it lora. POST MORE.

 

Kennedy McKinney vs Vuyany Bungu II

Bungu - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
McKinney- 4, 7, 11 and 12

 

Ah, i forgot to mention regarding Bassa vs Rojas that when rojas wrestled him to the floor in the 10th, it looked to be counted as a knockdown, which given two judges only had Rojas winning by a point is likely what cost Bassa his title on the cards.

No surprised that Rojas was Venezuelan

 

Hopkins-Pavlik.
total shutout from B-Hop. Scored every single round for Hopkins.